Add motion functions to api docs

doc/api.rst

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Low-level
     .. autoclass:: ChunkRecordingExecutor
 
 
-Back-compatibility with ``WaveformExtractor`` (version < 0.101.0)
+Back-compatibility with ``WaveformExtractor`` (version > 0.100.0)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 .. automodule:: spikeinterface.core
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ spikeinterface.preprocessing
     .. autofunction:: correct_motion
     .. autofunction:: get_motion_presets
     .. autofunction:: get_motion_parameters_preset
+    .. autofunction:: load_motion_info
+    .. autofunction:: save_motion_info
     .. autofunction:: depth_order
     .. autofunction:: detect_bad_channels
     .. autofunction:: directional_derivative

doc/how_to/handle_drift.rst

@@ -1322,8 +1322,6 @@ A preset is a nested dict that contains theses methods/parameters.
 Run motion correction with one function!
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Correcting for drift is easy! You just need to run a single function. We
-will try this function with some presets.
 
 Here we also save the motion correction results into a folder to be able
 to load them later.

examples/how_to/handle_drift.py

@@ -109,9 +109,6 @@ def preprocess_chain(rec):
 
 # ### Run motion correction with one function!
 #
-# Correcting for drift is easy! You just need to run a single function.
-# We will try this function with some presets.
-#
 # Here we also save the motion correction results into a folder to be able to load them later.
 
 # lets try theses presets

src/spikeinterface/preprocessing/motion.py

@@ -568,6 +568,19 @@ def correct_motion(
 
 
 def save_motion_info(motion_info, folder, overwrite=False):
+    """
+    Saves motion info
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    motion_info : dict
+        The returned motion_info from running `compute_motion`
+    folder : str | Path
+        The path for saving the `motion_info`
+    overwrite : bool, default: False
+        Whether to overwrite the folder location when saving motion info
+
+    """
     folder = Path(folder)
     if folder.is_dir():
         if not overwrite:
@@ -590,6 +603,20 @@ def save_motion_info(motion_info, folder, overwrite=False):
 
 
 def load_motion_info(folder):
+    """
+    Loads a motion info dict from folder
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    folder : str | Path
+        The folder containing the motion info to load
+
+    Notes
+    -----
+    Loads both current Motion implementation as well as the
+    legacy Motion format
+
+    """
     from spikeinterface.core.motion import Motion
 
     folder = Path(folder)