nwojke/deep_sort

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6169 stars · 1552 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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A Python implementation of Deep SORT, a multi-object tracking algorithm that extends SORT with a deep appearance descriptor for robust data association. It tracks pedestrians in real time using Kalman filtering and cosine-similarity matching of CNN appearance features.

Use cases

• track pedestrians across video frames in real time
• run multi-object tracking on MOT16 benchmark sequences
• generate deep appearance features for person re-identification
• associate object detections over time using appearance similarity
• evaluate tracking algorithms on MOT challenge data

When to choose

• you need real-time multi-object tracking with appearance-based re-identification
• you want a well-known reference implementation of the Deep SORT paper
• you are benchmarking trackers on MOT challenge datasets

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained code or modern TensorFlow 2 support
• you need tracking for arbitrary object classes rather than pedestrians
• you want a production-ready pipeline with built-in object detection

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

computer-vision machine-learning deep-learning computer-vision artificial-intelligence python multi-object-tracking deep-sort person-re-identification mot-challenge kalman-filter tensorflow algorithms

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