BoxMOT gives you one CLI and one Python API for running modern multi-object tracking workflows. It covers direct tracking, cached benchmark evaluation, tuning, research loops, and ReID export without forcing you to rebuild the detector and tracker stack for each experiment.

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Why BoxMOT

• One interface for track, generate, eval, tune, research, and export.
• Swappable trackers with shared detector and ReID plumbing.
• Benchmark-oriented workflows with reusable detections and embeddings.
• Support for both AABB and OBB tracking paths.
• Public Python API for embedding the same workflows in applications and notebooks.

Installation

BoxMOT supports Python 3.9 through 3.12.

pip install boxmot
boxmot --help

For mode-specific extras such as yolo, evolve, research, onnx, openvino, and tflite, see the installation guide.

Benchmark Results (MOT17 ablation split)

Tracker	Status	OBB	HOTA↑	MOTA↑	IDF1↑	FPS
botsort	✅	✅	69.418	78.232	81.812	12
boosttrack	✅	❌	69.253	75.914	83.206	13
strongsort	✅	❌	68.05	76.185	80.763	11
deepocsort	✅	❌	67.796	75.868	80.514	12
bytetrack	✅	✅	67.68	78.039	79.157	720
hybridsort	✅	❌	67.39	74.127	79.105	25
ocsort	✅	✅	66.441	74.548	77.899	890
sfsort	✅	✅	62.653	76.87	69.184	6000

_{Evaluation was run on the second half of the MOT17 training set because the validation split is not public and the ablation detector was trained on the first half. Results used pre-generated detections and embeddings with each tracker configured from its default repository settings.}

Reproduction details and evaluation semantics live in:

• Evaluation and Postprocessing
• Benchmark Workflows

Minimal Usage

CLI:

boxmot track --detector yolov8n --reid osnet_x0_25_msmt17 --tracker botsort --source video.mp4 --save

Python:

from boxmot import Boxmot

run = Boxmot(detector="yolov8n", reid="osnet_x0_25_msmt17", tracker="botsort").track(
    source="video.mp4",
    save=True,
)
print(run)

Contributing

Start with CONTRIBUTING.md and the contributor docs.

Contributors

Support and Citation

• Bugs and feature requests: GitHub Issues
• Questions and discussion: GitHub Discussions or Discord
• Citation metadata: CITATION.cff
• Commercial support: box-mot@outlook.com