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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: tracktors
+Version: 2.6.0.dev0
+Summary: Tensor-native multi-object tracking for Roboflow Inference
+Author-email: "Roboflow et al." <develop@roboflow.com>
+Maintainer-email: Piotr Skalski <piotr@roboflow.com>
+License: Apache License 2.0
+Keywords: tracking,mot,sort,bytetrack,machine-learning,deep-learning,vision,ML,DL,AI,DETR,YOLO,Roboflow
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Education
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
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+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS
+Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=2.0.2
+Requires-Dist: superiorvision>=0.30.0.dev0
+Requires-Dist: torch
+Requires-Dist: scipy>=1.13.1
+Requires-Dist: opencv-python>=4.8.0
+Requires-Dist: rich>=13.0.0
+Requires-Dist: requests>=2.28.0
+Requires-Dist: pydeprecate>=0.7.0
+Provides-Extra: detection
+Requires-Dist: inference-models>=0.19.0; extra == "detection"
+Provides-Extra: tune
+Requires-Dist: optuna>=3.0.0; extra == "tune"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+<div align="center">
+    <img width="200" src="docs/assets/logo-trackers-violet.svg" alt="tracktors logo">
+    <h1>tracktors</h1>
+    <p>Trackers, after the coordinates discovered tensors.</p>
+
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue)](LICENSE.md)
+
+</div>
+
+Tracktors is Roboflow's private, tensor-native fork of
+[Trackers](https://github.com/roboflow/trackers), scoped to the four tracker
+paths used by Inference: ByteTrack, SORT, OC-SORT, and BoT-SORT. It consumes
+SuperiorVision's tensor-native `supervision.Detections` without making the
+boxes take a ceremonial trip through NumPy first.
+
+Both `from tracktors import ...` and the legacy `from trackers import ...`
+interface are supported while Inference migrates. Same API, same algorithms,
+fewer surprise CPU field trips.
+
+Turning a GPU tensor into NumPy so a Kalman filter can immediately rebuild the
+same numbers somewhere else is not object tracking. It is luggage handling.
+Tracktors is retiring the carousel.
+
+## Why Tracktors?
+
+- **Clean-room implementations.** Every algorithm is re-implemented from the original paper — not a thin wrapper around someone else's code. You can read it, understand it, and modify it.
+- **Detector-agnostic.** Works with YOLO, DETR, RT-DETR, or any model that produces bounding boxes. No inference library required or assumed.
+- **SuperiorVision tensor native.** Pass tensor-backed `sv.Detections` in and get tensor-backed tracked detections back on the same device—zero glue code and zero NumPy exit tax.
+- **Benchmarked across four datasets.** MOT17, SportsMOT, SoccerNet, and DanceTrack — at default parameters and after hyperparameter tuning, so you know what to expect before you deploy.
+- **Tunable out of the box.** Built-in Optuna-based hyperparameter search via `tracktors tune` (or the compatible `trackers tune`) so you can optimize for your specific scene and detector.
+- **Camera motion compensation.** BoT-SORT handles moving cameras natively, keeping track IDs stable even when the whole frame shifts.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install "tracktors @ git+ssh://git@github.com/roboflow/tracktors.git"
+```
+
+<details>
+<summary>Install from source</summary>
+
+```bash
+git clone git@github.com:roboflow/tracktors.git
+cd tracktors
+uv sync
+```
+
+</details>
+
+Tracktors is private and is not published to PyPI.
+
+[![Watch: Building Real-Time Multi-Object Tracking with RF-DETR and Trackers](https://storage.googleapis.com/com-roboflow-marketing/trackers/docs/roboflow-piotr-rf-detr-trackers-v1b-callout.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0k2dTZ0vfs)
+
+## Quick Start
+
+Add tracking to your existing detection pipeline in a few lines. Every tracker shares the same `update(detections, frame=None)` interface, so switching algorithms later is a one-line change. The example below uses `inference` as the detector — swap it for any detector that returns `supervision.Detections`.
+
+```python
+import cv2
+import supervision as sv
+from inference import get_model
+from tracktors import ByteTrackTracker
+
+model = get_model(model_id="rfdetr-medium")
+tracker = ByteTrackTracker()
+
+cap = cv2.VideoCapture("video.mp4")
+while cap.isOpened():
+    ret, frame = cap.read()
+    if not ret:
+        break
+
+    result = model.infer(frame)[0]
+    detections = sv.Detections.from_inference(result)
+    tracked = tracker.update(detections)
+```
+
+For more examples, see the [tracking guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/track/).
+
+## Track from CLI
+
+Prefer the terminal? Point `tracktors track` at a video, webcam feed, RTSP stream, or image directory and it handles detection, tracking, and annotated output in one command — no Python script required.
+
+```bash
+tracktors track \
+    --source video.mp4 \
+    --output output.mp4 \
+    --model rfdetr-medium \
+    --tracker bytetrack \
+    --show-labels \
+    --show-trajectories
+```
+
+For all CLI options, see the [tracking guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/track/).
+
+## Algorithms
+
+Each tracker below is a faithful implementation of its original paper. Pick the one that fits your scene, or run the benchmark to find out which performs best on your data.
+
+|                                                                           Algorithm                                                                           |                           Description                           | MOT17 HOTA | SportsMOT HOTA | SoccerNet HOTA | DanceTrack HOTA |
+| :-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------------------------------------------------------------: | :--------: | :------------: | :------------: | :-------------: |
+|                                                           [SORT](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00763)                                                            |          Kalman filter + Hungarian matching baseline.           |    58.4    |      70.9      |      81.6      |      47.2       |
+|                                                         [ByteTrack](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06864)                                                         | Two-stage association using high and low confidence detections. |    60.1    |      73.0      |      84.0      |      53.3       |
+|                                                          [OC-SORT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14360)                                                          |          Observation-centric recovery for lost tracks.          |    61.9    |      71.7      |      78.4      |      54.1       |
+|                                                         [BoT-SORT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14651)                                                          |                   Camera motion compensation                    |  **63.7**  |    **73.8**    |    **84.5**    |    **57.8**     |
+| [C-BIoU](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2023/papers/Yang_Hard_To_Track_Objects_With_Irregular_Motions_and_Similar_Appearances_WACV_2023_paper.pdf) |  Cascaded buffered IoU matching for fast or irregular motion.   |    63.0    |      73.1      |      82.6      |      56.7       |
+
+All scores use default parameters on the standard split. See the [tracker comparison](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/trackers/comparison/) for tuned numbers and methodology.
+
+## Evaluate
+
+Once you have tracking results, you want to know how good they are. `trackers eval` computes CLEAR, HOTA, and Identity metrics against ground-truth annotations and prints a per-sequence breakdown alongside the combined score.
+
+```bash
+tracktors eval \
+    --gt-dir ./data/mot17/val \
+    --tracker-dir results \
+    --metrics CLEAR HOTA Identity \
+    --columns MOTA HOTA IDF1
+```
+
+```
+Sequence                        MOTA    HOTA    IDF1
+----------------------------------------------------
+MOT17-02-FRCNN                30.192  35.475  38.515
+MOT17-04-FRCNN                48.912  55.096  61.854
+MOT17-05-FRCNN                52.755  45.515  55.705
+MOT17-09-FRCNN                51.441  50.108  57.038
+MOT17-10-FRCNN                51.832  49.648  55.797
+MOT17-11-FRCNN                55.501  49.401  55.061
+MOT17-13-FRCNN                60.488  58.651  69.884
+----------------------------------------------------
+COMBINED                      47.406  50.355  56.600
+```
+
+For the full evaluation workflow, see the [evaluation guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/evaluate/).
+
+## Download Datasets
+
+Need benchmark data to evaluate against? `trackers download` pulls MOT17, SportsMOT, and other supported datasets with a single command, handling splits and assets selectively so you only download what you need.
+
+```bash
+tracktors download mot17 \
+    --split val \
+    --asset annotations,detections
+```
+
+|   Dataset   |                               Description                               |         Splits         |                Assets                 |     License     |
+| :---------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------: | :--------------------: | :-----------------------------------: | :-------------: |
+|   `mot17`   |    Pedestrian tracking with crowded scenes and frequent occlusions.     | `train`, `val`, `test` | `frames`, `annotations`, `detections` | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
+| `sportsmot` | Sports broadcast tracking with fast motion and similar-looking targets. | `train`, `val`, `test` |        `frames`, `annotations`        |    CC BY 4.0    |
+
+For more download options, see the [download guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/download/).
+
+## Try It
+
+Want to see it in action before writing any code? Try trackers in your browser with our [Hugging Face Playground](https://huggingface.co/spaces/roboflow/trackers) — no install required.
+
+## Where to go next
+
+- **New to tracking?** Start with the [tracking guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/track/) — it walks through the Python API and CLI end to end.
+- **Want benchmarks?** The [tracker comparison](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/trackers/comparison/) covers all four algorithms across all four datasets, at default and tuned parameters, with guidance on which to pick for your scene.
+- **Building a research pipeline?** The [evaluation guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/evaluate/) and [download guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/download/) cover the full offline benchmarking workflow.
+- **Upstream API reference** → [trackers.roboflow.com](https://trackers.roboflow.com)
+- **Try without installing** → [Hugging Face Playground](https://huggingface.co/spaces/roboflow/trackers)
+- **Questions?** Find us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/GbfgXGJ8Bk).
+
+## Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions. Read our [contributor guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started.
+
+## License
+
+The code is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE.md).

tracktors-2.6.0.dev0/README.md

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+<div align="center">
+    <img width="200" src="docs/assets/logo-trackers-violet.svg" alt="tracktors logo">
+    <h1>tracktors</h1>
+    <p>Trackers, after the coordinates discovered tensors.</p>
+
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue)](LICENSE.md)
+
+</div>
+
+Tracktors is Roboflow's private, tensor-native fork of
+[Trackers](https://github.com/roboflow/trackers), scoped to the four tracker
+paths used by Inference: ByteTrack, SORT, OC-SORT, and BoT-SORT. It consumes
+SuperiorVision's tensor-native `supervision.Detections` without making the
+boxes take a ceremonial trip through NumPy first.
+
+Both `from tracktors import ...` and the legacy `from trackers import ...`
+interface are supported while Inference migrates. Same API, same algorithms,
+fewer surprise CPU field trips.
+
+Turning a GPU tensor into NumPy so a Kalman filter can immediately rebuild the
+same numbers somewhere else is not object tracking. It is luggage handling.
+Tracktors is retiring the carousel.
+
+## Why Tracktors?
+
+- **Clean-room implementations.** Every algorithm is re-implemented from the original paper — not a thin wrapper around someone else's code. You can read it, understand it, and modify it.
+- **Detector-agnostic.** Works with YOLO, DETR, RT-DETR, or any model that produces bounding boxes. No inference library required or assumed.
+- **SuperiorVision tensor native.** Pass tensor-backed `sv.Detections` in and get tensor-backed tracked detections back on the same device—zero glue code and zero NumPy exit tax.
+- **Benchmarked across four datasets.** MOT17, SportsMOT, SoccerNet, and DanceTrack — at default parameters and after hyperparameter tuning, so you know what to expect before you deploy.
+- **Tunable out of the box.** Built-in Optuna-based hyperparameter search via `tracktors tune` (or the compatible `trackers tune`) so you can optimize for your specific scene and detector.
+- **Camera motion compensation.** BoT-SORT handles moving cameras natively, keeping track IDs stable even when the whole frame shifts.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install "tracktors @ git+ssh://git@github.com/roboflow/tracktors.git"
+```
+
+<details>
+<summary>Install from source</summary>
+
+```bash
+git clone git@github.com:roboflow/tracktors.git
+cd tracktors
+uv sync
+```
+
+</details>
+
+Tracktors is private and is not published to PyPI.
+
+[![Watch: Building Real-Time Multi-Object Tracking with RF-DETR and Trackers](https://storage.googleapis.com/com-roboflow-marketing/trackers/docs/roboflow-piotr-rf-detr-trackers-v1b-callout.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0k2dTZ0vfs)
+
+## Quick Start
+
+Add tracking to your existing detection pipeline in a few lines. Every tracker shares the same `update(detections, frame=None)` interface, so switching algorithms later is a one-line change. The example below uses `inference` as the detector — swap it for any detector that returns `supervision.Detections`.
+
+```python
+import cv2
+import supervision as sv
+from inference import get_model
+from tracktors import ByteTrackTracker
+
+model = get_model(model_id="rfdetr-medium")
+tracker = ByteTrackTracker()
+
+cap = cv2.VideoCapture("video.mp4")
+while cap.isOpened():
+    ret, frame = cap.read()
+    if not ret:
+        break
+
+    result = model.infer(frame)[0]
+    detections = sv.Detections.from_inference(result)
+    tracked = tracker.update(detections)
+```
+
+For more examples, see the [tracking guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/track/).
+
+## Track from CLI
+
+Prefer the terminal? Point `tracktors track` at a video, webcam feed, RTSP stream, or image directory and it handles detection, tracking, and annotated output in one command — no Python script required.
+
+```bash
+tracktors track \
+    --source video.mp4 \
+    --output output.mp4 \
+    --model rfdetr-medium \
+    --tracker bytetrack \
+    --show-labels \
+    --show-trajectories
+```
+
+For all CLI options, see the [tracking guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/track/).
+
+## Algorithms
+
+Each tracker below is a faithful implementation of its original paper. Pick the one that fits your scene, or run the benchmark to find out which performs best on your data.
+
+|                                                                           Algorithm                                                                           |                           Description                           | MOT17 HOTA | SportsMOT HOTA | SoccerNet HOTA | DanceTrack HOTA |
+| :-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------------------------------------------------------------: | :--------: | :------------: | :------------: | :-------------: |
+|                                                           [SORT](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00763)                                                            |          Kalman filter + Hungarian matching baseline.           |    58.4    |      70.9      |      81.6      |      47.2       |
+|                                                         [ByteTrack](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06864)                                                         | Two-stage association using high and low confidence detections. |    60.1    |      73.0      |      84.0      |      53.3       |
+|                                                          [OC-SORT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14360)                                                          |          Observation-centric recovery for lost tracks.          |    61.9    |      71.7      |      78.4      |      54.1       |
+|                                                         [BoT-SORT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14651)                                                          |                   Camera motion compensation                    |  **63.7**  |    **73.8**    |    **84.5**    |    **57.8**     |
+| [C-BIoU](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2023/papers/Yang_Hard_To_Track_Objects_With_Irregular_Motions_and_Similar_Appearances_WACV_2023_paper.pdf) |  Cascaded buffered IoU matching for fast or irregular motion.   |    63.0    |      73.1      |      82.6      |      56.7       |
+
+All scores use default parameters on the standard split. See the [tracker comparison](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/trackers/comparison/) for tuned numbers and methodology.
+
+## Evaluate
+
+Once you have tracking results, you want to know how good they are. `trackers eval` computes CLEAR, HOTA, and Identity metrics against ground-truth annotations and prints a per-sequence breakdown alongside the combined score.
+
+```bash
+tracktors eval \
+    --gt-dir ./data/mot17/val \
+    --tracker-dir results \
+    --metrics CLEAR HOTA Identity \
+    --columns MOTA HOTA IDF1
+```
+
+```
+Sequence                        MOTA    HOTA    IDF1
+----------------------------------------------------
+MOT17-02-FRCNN                30.192  35.475  38.515
+MOT17-04-FRCNN                48.912  55.096  61.854
+MOT17-05-FRCNN                52.755  45.515  55.705
+MOT17-09-FRCNN                51.441  50.108  57.038
+MOT17-10-FRCNN                51.832  49.648  55.797
+MOT17-11-FRCNN                55.501  49.401  55.061
+MOT17-13-FRCNN                60.488  58.651  69.884
+----------------------------------------------------
+COMBINED                      47.406  50.355  56.600
+```
+
+For the full evaluation workflow, see the [evaluation guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/evaluate/).
+
+## Download Datasets
+
+Need benchmark data to evaluate against? `trackers download` pulls MOT17, SportsMOT, and other supported datasets with a single command, handling splits and assets selectively so you only download what you need.
+
+```bash
+tracktors download mot17 \
+    --split val \
+    --asset annotations,detections
+```
+
+|   Dataset   |                               Description                               |         Splits         |                Assets                 |     License     |
+| :---------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------: | :--------------------: | :-----------------------------------: | :-------------: |
+|   `mot17`   |    Pedestrian tracking with crowded scenes and frequent occlusions.     | `train`, `val`, `test` | `frames`, `annotations`, `detections` | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
+| `sportsmot` | Sports broadcast tracking with fast motion and similar-looking targets. | `train`, `val`, `test` |        `frames`, `annotations`        |    CC BY 4.0    |
+
+For more download options, see the [download guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/download/).
+
+## Try It
+
+Want to see it in action before writing any code? Try trackers in your browser with our [Hugging Face Playground](https://huggingface.co/spaces/roboflow/trackers) — no install required.
+
+## Where to go next
+
+- **New to tracking?** Start with the [tracking guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/track/) — it walks through the Python API and CLI end to end.
+- **Want benchmarks?** The [tracker comparison](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/trackers/comparison/) covers all four algorithms across all four datasets, at default and tuned parameters, with guidance on which to pick for your scene.
+- **Building a research pipeline?** The [evaluation guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/evaluate/) and [download guide](https://trackers.roboflow.com/develop/learn/download/) cover the full offline benchmarking workflow.
+- **Upstream API reference** → [trackers.roboflow.com](https://trackers.roboflow.com)
+- **Try without installing** → [Hugging Face Playground](https://huggingface.co/spaces/roboflow/trackers)
+- **Questions?** Find us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/GbfgXGJ8Bk).
+
+## Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions. Read our [contributor guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started.
+
+## License
+
+The code is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE.md).