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FIR-based Future Trajectory Prediction in Nighttime Autonomous Driving

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-04-12 v1

Abstract

The performance of the current collision avoidance systems in Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) can be drastically affected by low light and adverse weather conditions. Collisions with large animals such as deer in low light cause significant cost and damage every year. In this paper, we propose the first AI-based method for future trajectory prediction of large animals and mitigating the risk of collision with them in low light. In order to minimize false collision warnings, in our multi-step framework, first, the large animal is accurately detected and a preliminary risk level is predicted for it and low-risk animals are discarded. In the next stage, a multi-stream CONV-LSTM-based encoder-decoder framework is designed to predict the future trajectory of the potentially high-risk animals. The proposed model uses camera motion prediction as well as the local and global context of the scene to generate accurate predictions. Furthermore, this paper introduces a new dataset of FIR videos for large animal detection and risk estimation in real nighttime driving scenarios. Our experiments show promising results of the proposed framework in adverse conditions. Our code is available online.

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@article{arxiv.2304.05345,
  title  = {FIR-based Future Trajectory Prediction in Nighttime Autonomous Driving},
  author = {Alireza Rahimpour and Navid Fallahinia and Devesh Upadhyay and Justin Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05345},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Conference: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles 2023 (IEEE IV 2023)

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