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Understanding the geometric relationships between objects in a scene is a core capability in enabling both humans and autonomous agents to navigate in new environments. A sparse, unified representation of the scene topology will allow…

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Prediction of human motions is key for safe navigation of autonomous robots among humans. In cluttered environments, several motion hypotheses may exist for a pedestrian, due to its interactions with the environment and other pedestrians.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Bruno Brito , Hai Zhu , Wei Pan , Javier Alonso-Mora

Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kapil Katyal , Katie Popek , Chris Paxton , Joseph Moore , Kevin Wolfe , Philippe Burlina , Gregory D. Hager

Predicting future motions of nearby agents is essential for an autonomous vehicle to take safe and effective actions. In this paper, we propose TSGN, a framework using Temporal Scene Graph Neural Networks with projected vectorized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yunong Wu , Thomas Gilles , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Fabien Moutarde

This paper introduces a novel machine learning architecture for an efficient estimation of the probabilistic space-time representation of complex traffic scenarios. A detailed representation of the future traffic scenario is of significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Parthasarathy Nadarajan , Michael Botsch , Sebastian Sardina

Autonomous agents rely on sensor data to construct representations of their environments, essential for predicting future events and planning their actions. However, sensor measurements suffer from limited range, occlusions, and sensor…

Human motion prediction is still an open problem extremely important for autonomous driving and safety applications. Due to the complex spatiotemporal relation of motion sequences, this remains a challenging problem not only for movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Edgar Medina , Leyong Loh , Namrata Gurung , Kyung Hun Oh , Niels Heller

We propose Occupancy Flow Fields, a new representation for motion forecasting of multiple agents, an important task in autonomous driving. Our representation is a spatio-temporal grid with each grid cell containing both the probability of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Reza Mahjourian , Jinkyu Kim , Yuning Chai , Mingxing Tan , Ben Sapp , Dragomir Anguelov

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

Motion planning in uncertain environments like complex urban areas is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The aim of our research is to investigate how AVs can navigate crowded, unpredictable scenarios with multiple pedestrians…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Korbinian Moller , Truls Nyberg , Jana Tumova , Johannes Betz

One of the most crucial yet challenging tasks for autonomous vehicles in urban environments is predicting the future behaviour of nearby pedestrians, especially at points of crossing. Predicting behaviour depends on many social and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tiffany Yau , Saber Malekmohammadi , Amir Rasouli , Peter Lakner , Mohsen Rohani , Jun Luo

We investigate the multi-step prediction of the drivable space, represented by Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs), for autonomous vehicles. Our motivation is that accurate multi-step prediction of the drivable space can efficiently improve path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Nima Mohajerin , Mohsen Rohani

Motion prediction is crucial for autonomous vehicles to operate safely in complex traffic environments. Extracting effective spatiotemporal relationships among traffic elements is key to accurate forecasting. Inspired by the successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhiqian Lan , Yuxuan Jiang , Yao Mu , Chen Chen , Shengbo Eben Li

Detection and segmentation of moving obstacles, along with prediction of the future occupancy states of the local environment, are essential for autonomous vehicles to proactively make safe and informed decisions. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Maneekwan Toyungyernsub , Esen Yel , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Predicting the movement trajectories of multiple classes of road users in real-world scenarios is a challenging task due to the diverse trajectory patterns. While recent works of pedestrian trajectory prediction successfully modelled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ben A. Rainbow , Qianhui Men , Hubert P. H. Shum

Traffic forecasting is a core element of intelligent traffic monitoring system. Approaches based on graph neural networks have been widely used in this task to effectively capture spatial and temporal dependencies of road networks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Yaobin Xu , Weitang Liu , Zhongyi Jiang , Zixuan Xu , Tingyun Mao , Lili Chen , Mingwei Zhou

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is a key technology in autopilot, which remains to be very challenging due to complex interactions between pedestrians. However, previous works based on dense undirected interaction suffer from modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Liushuai Shi , Le Wang , Chengjiang Long , Sanping Zhou , Mo Zhou , Zhenxing Niu , Gang Hua

Forecasting the future behaviors of dynamic actors is an important task in many robotics applications such as self-driving. It is extremely challenging as actors have latent intentions and their trajectories are governed by complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wenyuan Zeng , Ming Liang , Renjie Liao , Raquel Urtasun

The prediction of road users' future motion is a critical task in supporting advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). It plays an even more crucial role for autonomous driving (AD) in enabling the planning and execution of safe driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Maximilian Schäfer , Kun Zhao , Anton Kummert

Forecasting long-term human motion is a challenging task due to the non-linearity, multi-modality and inherent uncertainty in future trajectories. The underlying scene and past motion of agents can provide useful cues to predict their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Daniela Ridel , Nachiket Deo , Denis Wolf , Mohan Trivedi