Tracker

class byotrack.api.tracker.Tracker

Bases: ABC, ParametrizedObjectMixin

Base abstract tracker class

A tracker can be run on a whole video and produces tracks

abstract run(video: Iterable[ndarray]) → Collection[Track]

Run the tracker on a whole video

Parameters:

video (Iterable[np.ndarray]) – Sequence of frames (video) Each array is expected to have a shape (H, W, C)

Returns:

Tracks of particles

Return type:

Collection[byotrack.Track]

class byotrack.api.tracker.MultiStepTracker(detector: Detector, linker: Linker, refiners: Iterable[Refiner] = ())

Bases: Tracker

Multi step tracker: split the tracking task into Detect / Link / Refine

detector

Performs the detection on the video

Type:

byotrack.Detector

linker

Links detections through time

Type:

byotrack.Linker

refiners

Optional refinement steps Empty by default

Type:

Iterable[byotrack.Refiner]

run(video: Iterable[ndarray]) → Collection[Track]

Run the tracker on a whole video

Parameters:

video (Iterable[np.ndarray]) – Sequence of frames (video) Each array is expected to have a shape (H, W, C)

Returns:

Tracks of particles

Return type:

Collection[byotrack.Track]