Yuexin Ma1,2    Xinge Zhu3    Sibo Zhang1    Ruigang Yang1    Wenping Wang2    Dinesh Manocha4   

Baidu Research, Baidu Inc.1, The University of Hong Kong2, The Chinese University of Hong Kong3, University of Maryland at College Park4

Abstract

To safely and efficiently navigate in complex urban traffic, autonomous vehicles must make responsible predictions in relation to surrounding traffic-agents (vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, etc.). A challenging and critical task is to explore the movement patterns of different traffic-agents and predict their future trajectories accurately to help the autonomous vehicle make reasonable navigation decision. To solve this problem, we propose a long short-term memory-based (LSTM-based) realtime traffic prediction algorithm, TrafficPredict. Our approach uses an instance layer to learn instances' movements and interactions and has a category layer to learn the similarities of instances belonging to the same type to refine the prediction. In order to evaluate its performance, we collected trajectory datasets in a large city consisting of varying conditions and traffic densities. The dataset includes many challenging scenarios where vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians move among one another. We evaluate the performance of TrafficPredict on our new dataset and highlight its higher accuracy for trajectory prediction by comparing with prior prediction methods.

Publication

TrafficPredict: Trajectory Prediction for Heterogeneous Traffic-Agents [PDF]
Yuexin Ma, Xinge Zhu, Sibo Zhang, Ruigang Yang, Wenping Wang, and Dinesh Manocha.
AAAI(oral), 2019

Dataset

Trajectory Dataset for Urban Traffic [Download]

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