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The Trajectron: Probabilistic Multi-Agent Trajectory Modeling With Dynamic Spatiotemporal Graphs

Robotics 2019-08-27 v3 Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning

Abstract

Developing safe human-robot interaction systems is a necessary step towards the widespread integration of autonomous agents in society. A key component of such systems is the ability to reason about the many potential futures (e.g. trajectories) of other agents in the scene. Towards this end, we present the Trajectron, a graph-structured model that predicts many potential future trajectories of multiple agents simultaneously in both highly dynamic and multimodal scenarios (i.e. where the number of agents in the scene is time-varying and there are many possible highly-distinct futures for each agent). It combines tools from recurrent sequence modeling and variational deep generative modeling to produce a distribution of future trajectories for each agent in a scene. We demonstrate the performance of our model on several datasets, obtaining state-of-the-art results on standard trajectory prediction metrics as well as introducing a new metric for comparing models that output distributions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.05993,
  title  = {The Trajectron: Probabilistic Multi-Agent Trajectory Modeling With Dynamic Spatiotemporal Graphs},
  author = {Boris Ivanovic and Marco Pavone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05993},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019 -- 10 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables

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