Use public bboxes for OC-SORT and ByteTrack

[FranziSchwaiger]

Hi! At first, thanks a lot for your great effort to create mmtracking!

I have a question regarding MOT testing:

I want to compare the performance of the MOT-models, independent of the object detector. For this, I also want to use the public detections for oc-sort and byte-track (besides sort, deepsort, and tracktor).

1. For sort and deepsort, the method simple_test() has the argument 'public_bboxes', but oc-sort does not have this option. Is there a reason for that? As far as I understand, OC-SORT should also be independent of the detector architecture, but please correct me if I am wrong.

2. When I look into simple_test() of deepsort, then the public bboxes are used as proposals for the roi-head, but when a one-stage detector is used, they are not considered at all. Is there a reason for that and why are the public bboxes not directly used as observations for the tracker?

Thanks a lot!