Running trackmate on a stream of incoming frames

[akatav]

So, i have a setup where a fixed number of frames of a time lapse image capture arrive in a stream sequence every n seconds. I am able to run Trackmate on each stream packet, but i am unable to track the spots across the stream, as different spot IDs are assigned every time trackmate is run.
I'd like to track the spots and features across the entire length of the incoming stream. How to do this successfully with trackmate?

[tinevez]

Hello @akatav
I am not sure this can be done easily with TrackMate. It expects to always have ALL the spots at hand before tracking, and work best in an asynchronous way, when the acquisition of image data is over.

[akatav]

@tinevez thanks for your comment. okay, well, trackmate was really useful to me so far. Would be a downer if i can't use it in real time setting somehow :( i'm wondering, let us say, my image is zoomed-in (not wide field) and captures only 2 spots at max. then, is it possible to use trackmate somehow ?
I also tried to update the trackmate.model (using model.copy()) and trackmate.settings object (using the copyOn() method) from the model/settings object obtained in the previous stream's trackmate run. Would this work ?

[tinevez]

I really don't know. I think you need to investigate whether it's compatible with your framerate.