Tracker Overview

BoxMOT ships multiple tracker backends behind one interface.

Current tracker set

Tracker	Uses ReID	OBB support	Native C++ live	Native C++ replay
ByteTrack	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
BotSort	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
StrongSort	Yes	No	No	No
OcSort	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
DeepOcSort	Yes	No	No	No
HybridSort	Yes	No	No	No
BoostTrack	Yes	No	No	No
OccluBoost	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
SFSORT	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

How to choose

• Start with bytetrack when you want a fast motion-only baseline.
• Use botsort, strongsort, deepocsort, hybridsort, or boosttrack when appearance cues matter.
• Use an OBB-capable tracker when your detector emits oriented boxes.
• Use --tracker-backend cpp for native C++ implementations when the selected tracker has a native backend.

Config and factory

• Tracker runtime defaults come from boxmot/configs/trackers.
• The runtime factory lives in boxmot/trackers/tracker_zoo.py.
• Native C++ tracker sources live under boxmot/native/trackers/<name>/ and are registered from boxmot/native/registry.py.

Use Native C++ Integration when you want to compile and embed a tracker directly in a C++ program.

Use the pages below for each tracker's API reference.