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Being able to anticipate the motion of surrounding agents is essential for the safe operation of autonomous driving systems in dynamic situations. While various methods have been proposed for trajectory prediction, the current evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Longchao Da , David Isele , Hua Wei , Manish Saroya

Trajectory analysis is essential in many applications. In this paper, we address the problem of representing motion trajectories in a highly informative way, and consequently utilize it for analyzing trajectories. Our approach first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Weiyao Lin , Yang Zhou , Hongteng Xu , Junchi Yan , Mingliang Xu , Jianxin Wu , Zicheng Liu

With the recent discoveries of hundreds of extrasolar planets, the search for planets like Earth and life in the universe, is quickly gaining momentum. In the future, large space observatories could directly detect the light scattered from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Palle , Eric B. Ford , S. Seager , P. Montanes-Rodriguez , M. Vazquez

This paper addresses the problem of both actively searching and tracking multiple unknown dynamic objects in a known environment with multiple cooperative autonomous agents with partial observability. The tracking of a target ends when the…

Given trajectory data, a domain-specific study area, and a user-defined threshold, we aim to find anomalous trajectories indicative of possible GPS spoofing (e.g., fake trajectory). The problem is societally important to curb illegal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arun Sharma , Mingzhou Yang , Majid Farhadloo , Subhankar Ghosh , Bharat Jayaprakash , Shashi Shekhar

This paper introduces the induced matching distance, a novel topological metric designed to compare discrete structures represented by a symmetric non-negative function. We apply this notion to analyze agent trajectories over time. We use…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Javier Perera-Lago , Álvaro Torras-Casas , Jérôme Guzzi , Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz

Predicting properties of complex, large-scale quantum systems is essential for developing quantum technologies. We present an efficient method for constructing an approximate classical description of a quantum state using very few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Richard Kueng , John Preskill

Importance sampling of trajectories has proved a uniquely successful strategy for exploring rare dynamical behaviors of complex systems in an unbiased way. Carrying out this sampling, however, requires an ability to propose changes to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-01 Todd R. Gingrich , Phillip L. Geissler

The observable time delays between the multiple images of strong lensing systems with time variable sources can provide us with some valuable information to probe the expansion history of the Universe. Estimation of these time delays can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Amir Aghamousa , Arman Shafieloo

This paper formulates a new problem, instance shadow detection, which aims to detect shadow instance and the associated object instance that cast each shadow in the input image. To approach this task, we first compile a new dataset with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Future trajectories of neighboring traffic agents have a significant influence on the path planning and decision-making of autonomous vehicles. While trajectory forecasting is a well-studied field, research mainly focuses on snapshot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexander Prutsch , David Schinagl , Horst Possegger

Progress towards advanced systems for assisted and autonomous driving is leveraging recent advances in recognition and segmentation methods. Yet, we are still facing challenges in bringing reliable driving to inner cities, as those are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Rapidly generating an optimal chasing motion of a drone to follow a dynamic target among obstacles is challenging due to numerical issues rising from multiple conflicting objectives and non-convex constraints. This study proposes to resolve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Boseong Felipe Jeon , Changhyeon Kim , Hojoon Shin , H. Jin Kim

Using a time series model to mimic an observed time series has a long history. However, with regard to this objective, conventional estimation methods for discrete-time dynamical models are frequently found to be wanting. In fact, they are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yingcun Xia , Howell Tong

We describe the dynamical formation of the shadow of a collapsing star in a Hayward spacetime in terms of an observer far away from the center and a free falling observer. By solving the time-like and light-like radial geodesics we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-01 Daniel Nunez , Juan Carlos Degollado

When deploying autonomous systems in unknown and changing environments, it is critical that their motion planning and control algorithms are computationally efficient and can be reapplied online in real time, whilst providing theoretical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Seth Siriya , Mo Chen , Ye Pu

Spatio-temporal trajectory analytics is at the core of smart mobility solutions, which offers unprecedented information for diversified applications such as urban planning, infrastructure development, and vehicular networks. Trajectory…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Danlei Hu , Lu Chen , Hanxi Fang , Ziquan Fang , Tianyi Li , Yunjun Gao

The inherently diverse and uncertain nature of trajectories presents a formidable challenge in accurately modeling them. Motion prediction systems must effectively learn spatial and temporal information from the past to forecast the future…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Pranav Singh Chib , Pravendra Singh

Single-particle traces of the diffusive motion of molecules, cells, or animals are by-now routinely measured, similar to stochastic records of stock prices or weather data. Deciphering the stochastic mechanism behind the recorded dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-14 Henrik Seckler , Janusz Szwabinski , Ralf Metzler

The density profiles of dark matter haloes can potentially probe dynamics, fundamental physics, and cosmology, but some of the most promising signals reside near or beyond the virial radius. While these scales have recently become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Benedikt Diemer