Summary of Socialcvae: Predicting Pedestrian Trajectory Via Interaction Conditioned Latents, by Wei Xiang et al.
SocialCVAE: Predicting Pedestrian Trajectory via Interaction Conditioned Latents
by Wei Xiang, Haoteng Yin, He Wang, Xiaogang Jin
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to pedestrian trajectory prediction using social conditional variational autoencoders (SocialCVAEs). Unlike traditional empirical models, SocialCVAE combines learning-based techniques with explainability by modeling behavioral uncertainty. The model uses an energy-based interaction map to anticipate the future occupancy of each pedestrian’s local neighborhood area, taking into account socially reasonable motion randomness. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, SocialCVAE achieves significant improvements in prediction accuracy on two public benchmarks, with up to 16.85% and 69.18% improvements in Average Displacement Error (ADE) and Final Displacement Error (FDE), respectively. The authors demonstrate the potential of their approach for providing insights into human behavior and anticipating future motions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to predict where people will walk next. Right now, computers can’t always get it right because they don’t understand how humans behave around each other. To fix this, scientists created a special computer program called SocialCVAE that takes into account how people move in relation to each other. This program is better than previous ones at predicting where people will go, with an accuracy improvement of up to 17%. This could be useful for understanding human behavior and making cities safer. |
