T2FPV: Dataset and Method for Correcting First-Person View Errors in Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Abstract
Predicting pedestrian motion is essential for developing socially-aware robots that interact in a crowded environment. While the natural visual perspective for a social interaction setting is an egocentric view, the majority of existing work in trajectory prediction therein has been investigated purely in the top-down trajectory space. To support first-person view trajectory prediction research, we present T2FPV, a method for constructing high-fidelity first-person view (FPV) datasets given a real-world, top-down trajectory dataset; we showcase our approach on the ETH/UCY pedestrian dataset to generate the egocentric visual data of all interacting pedestrians, creating the T2FPV-ETH dataset. In this setting, FPV-specific errors arise due to imperfect detection and tracking, occlusions, and field-of-view (FOV) limitations of the camera. To address these errors, we propose CoFE, a module that further refines the imputation of missing data in an end-to-end manner with trajectory forecasting algorithms. Our method reduces the impact of such FPV errors on downstream prediction performance, decreasing displacement error by more than 10% on average. To facilitate research engagement, we release our T2FPV-ETH dataset and software tools.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.11294,
title = {T2FPV: Dataset and Method for Correcting First-Person View Errors in Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction},
author = {Benjamin Stoler and Meghdeep Jana and Soonmin Hwang and Jean Oh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11294},
year = {2023}
}