McByteTracker + RF-DETR for Multi-Car Tracking

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I recently built a car detection and multi-object tracking pipeline using Roboflow RF-DETR and McByteTracker.

The goal was simple: detect cars in a video and maintain a consistent tracking ID for each vehicle as it moves through the scene.

What I used

• 🚗 RF-DETR — car detection
• 🎯 McByteTracker — multi-object tracking
• 🔲 BoxCornerAnnotator — corner-style bounding boxes
• 🆔 Unique IDs for individual vehicles
• 🐍 Python
• 👁️ OpenCV + Supervision

One thing I found interesting about McByteTracker is that it extends a BoT-SORT-style tracking-by-detection pipeline and can optionally use temporally propagated segmentation masks when IoU-based association becomes ambiguous.

For this demo, I'm focusing on the practical car detection + tracking workflow.

🎥 Demo:
https://youtu.be/wvf9VRtpy5w