[MikeE]

I am seeing at least two strands of assumptions in this thread.

Identifying specific objects and tracking them under ideal conditions is an very interesting, worthwhile and fairly achievable project within the skill set of many capable teams.

Doing so in the real world on a robot, in competition, with intervening fast moving objects, variable lighting, possible network issues (if DS processing), another team playing heavy defense on you, then relying on the data to perform a critical dynamic function on your robot is a totally different scale of problem.