Accurately modeling the behavior of traffic participants is essential for safely and efficiently navigating an autonomous vehicle through heavy traffic. We propose a method, based on the intelligent driver model, that allows us to accurately model individual driver behaviors from only a small number of frames using easily observable features. On average, this method makes prediction errors that have less than 1 meter difference from an oracle with full-information when analyzed over a 10-second horizon of highway driving. We then validate the efficiency of our method through extensive analysis against a competitive data-driven method such as Reinforcement Learning that may be of independent interest.
@article{arxiv.2301.10893,
title = {Predicting Parameters for Modeling Traffic Participants},
author = {Ahmadreza Moradipari and Sangjae Bae and Mahnoosh Alizadeh and Ehsan Moradi Pari and David Isele},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10893},
year = {2023}
}