English
Related papers

Related papers: Social Attention: Modeling Attention in Human Crow…

200 papers

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud

We present a real-time, data-driven algorithm to enhance the social-invisibility of robots within crowds. Our approach is based on prior psychological research, which reveals that people notice and--importantly--react negatively to groups…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Aniket Bera , Tanmay Randhavane , Emily Kubin , Austin Wang , Dinesh Manocha , Kurt Gray

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is an important technique of autonomous driving, which has become a research hot-spot in recent years. Previous methods mainly rely on the position relationship of pedestrians to model social interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Pei Lv , Wentong Wang , Yunxin Wang , Yuzhen Zhang , Mingliang Xu , Changsheng Xu

Teaching autonomous mobile robots to successfully navigate human crowds is a challenging task. Not only does it require planning, but it requires maintaining social norms which may differ from one context to another. Here we focus on crowd…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Rajshree Daulatabad , Serena Nath

In densely populated environments, socially compliant navigation is critical for autonomous robots as driving close to people is unavoidable. This manner of social navigation is challenging given the constraints of human comfort and social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Xinjie Yao , Ji Zhang , Jean Oh

Accurate human trajectory prediction is one of the most crucial tasks for autonomous driving, ensuring its safety. Yet, existing models often fail to fully leverage the visual cues that humans subconsciously communicate when navigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yang Gao , Saeed Saadatnejad , Alexandre Alahi

Understanding traffic participants' behaviour is crucial for predicting their future trajectories, aiding in developing safe and reliable planning systems for autonomous vehicles. Integrating cognitive processes and machine learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Frederik S. B. Westerhout , Julian F. Schumann , Arkady Zgonnikov

Understanding and predicting the intention of pedestrians is essential to enable autonomous vehicles and mobile robots to navigate crowds. This problem becomes increasingly complex when we consider the uncertainty and multimodality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Stuart Eiffert , Kunming Li , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall , Salah Sukkarieh , Eduardo Nebot

Predicting human interaction is challenging as the on-going activity has to be inferred based on a partially observed video. Essentially, a good algorithm should effectively model the mutual influence between the two interacting subjects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Yichao Yan , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang

Trajectory prediction is fundamental to various intelligent technologies, such as autonomous driving and robotics. The motion prediction of pedestrians and vehicles helps emergency braking, reduces collisions, and improves traffic safety.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yao Liu , Binghao Li , Xianzhi Wang , Claude Sammut , Lina Yao

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is a critical yet challenging task, especially for crowded scenes. We suggest that introducing an attention mechanism to infer the importance of different neighbors is critical for accurate trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Congcong Liu , Yuying Chen , Ming Liu , Bertram E. Shi

In recent years, crowd analysis is important for applications such as smart cities, intelligent transportation system, customer behavior prediction, and visual surveillance. Understanding the characteristics of the individual motion in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wenxi Liu , Yuanlong Yu , Chun-Yang Zhang , Genggeng Liu , Naixue Xiong

Critical for the coexistence of humans and robots in dynamic environments is the capability for agents to understand each other's actions, and anticipate their movements. This paper presents Stochastic Process Anticipatory Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Weiming Zhi , Tin Lai , Lionel Ott , Fabio Ramos

Cooperatively avoiding collision is a critical functionality for robots navigating in dense human crowds, failure of which could lead to either overaggressive or overcautious behavior. A necessary condition for cooperative collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Muchen Sun , Francesca Baldini , Peter Trautman , Todd Murphey

Forecasting human trajectories is critical for tasks such as robot crowd navigation and autonomous driving. Modeling social interactions is of great importance for accurate group-wise motion prediction. However, most existing methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Bertram Shi , Ming Liu

Predicting the trajectory of pedestrians in crowd scenarios is indispensable in self-driving or autonomous mobile robot field because estimating the future locations of pedestrians around is beneficial for policy decision to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yuehai Chen

Accurate human trajectory prediction is crucial for applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, and surveillance systems. Yet, existing models often fail to fully leverage the non-verbal social cues human subconsciously communicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Saeed Saadatnejad , Yang Gao , Kaouther Messaoud , Alexandre Alahi

We study the design of learning architectures for behavioural planning in a dense traffic setting. Such architectures should deal with a varying number of nearby vehicles, be invariant to the ordering chosen to describe them, while staying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Edouard Leurent , Jean Mercat

Multi-agent interactions are important to model for forecasting other agents' behaviors and trajectories. At a certain time, to forecast a reasonable future trajectory, each agent needs to pay attention to the interactions with only a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhangjie Cao , Erdem Bıyık , Guy Rosman , Dorsa Sadigh

Trajectory Prediction of dynamic objects is a widely studied topic in the field of artificial intelligence. Thanks to a large number of applications like predicting abnormal events, navigation system for the blind, etc. there have been many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Daksh Varshneya , G. Srinivasaraghavan