Title
A Novel Graph-Based Trajectory Predictor With Pseudo-Oracle
Abstract
Pedestrian trajectory prediction in dynamic scenes remains a challenging and critical problem in numerous applications, such as self-driving cars and socially aware robots. Challenges concentrate on capturing pedestrians’ motion patterns and social interactions, as well as handling the future uncertainties. Recent studies focus on modeling pedestrians’ motion patterns with recurrent neural networks, capturing social interactions with pooling- or graph-based methods, and handling future uncertainties by using the random Gaussian noise as the latent variable. However, they do not integrate specific obstacle avoidance experiences (OAEs) that may improve prediction performance. For example, pedestrians’ future trajectories are always influenced by others in front. Here, we propose the Graph-based Trajectory Predictor with Pseudo-Oracle (GTPPO), an encoder–decoder-based method conditioned on pedestrians’ future behaviors. Pedestrians’ motion patterns are encoded with a long short-term memory unit, which introduces temporal attention to highlight specific time steps. Their interactions are captured by a graph-based attention mechanism, which draws OAE into the data-driven learning process of graph attention. Future uncertainties are handled by generating multimodal outputs with an informative latent variable. Such a variable is generated by a novel pseudo-oracle predictor, which minimizes the knowledge gap between historical and ground-truth trajectories. Finally, the GTPPO is evaluated on ETH, UCY, and Stanford Drone datasets, and the results demonstrate state-of-the-art performance. Besides, the qualitative evaluations show successful cases of handling sudden motion changes in the future. Such findings indicate that GTPPO can peek into the future.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3084143
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Encoder–decoder,graph attention network,latent variable predictor,social attention,trajectory prediction
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
2162-237X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Biao Yang162.44
Guocheng Yan210.36
Wang, Pin363.06
Ching-Yao Chan47923.48
Xiang Song510.36
Chen Yang617243.55