Nec Corporation

Sriram Nochur Narayanan

Manmohan Chandraker

Buyu Liu

Francesco Pittaluga

Ramin Moslemi

Junha Roh

A method for driving path prediction is provided. The method concatenates past trajectory features and lane centerline features in a channel dimension at an agent's respective location in a top view map to obtain concatenated features thereat. The method obtains convolutional features derived from the top view map, the concatenated features, and a single representation of the training scene the vehicle and agent interactions. The method extracts hypercolumn descriptor vectors which include the convolutional features from the agent's respective location in the top view map. The method obtains primary and auxiliary trajectory predictions from the hypercolumn descriptor vectors. The method generates a respective score for each of the primary and auxiliary trajectory predictions. The method trains a vehicle trajectory prediction neural network using a reconstruction loss, a regularization loss objective, and an IOC loss objective responsive to the respective score for each of the primary and auxiliary trajectory predictions.

Divide-and-conquer for lane-aware diverse trajectory prediction

Navigational systems and methods include building a topological graph of an environment using nodes that represent locations in the space and associated directions, with frontiers associated with particular nodes and directions within the topological graph. An action is determined using a policy trained with an action reward function that weighs exploration to find new objects and moving objects to a goal. An agent navigates within the environment in accordance with the determined action.

Robotic navigation and transport of objects

A method for simultaneous multi-agent recurrent trajectory prediction is presented. The method includes reconstructing a topological layout of a scene from a dataset including real-world data, generating a road graph of the scene, the road graph capturing a hierarchical structure of interconnected lanes, incorporating vehicles from the scene on the generated road graph by utilizing tracklet information available in the dataset, assigning the vehicles to their closest lane identifications, and identifying diverse plausible behaviors for every vehicle in the scene. The method further includes sampling one behavior from the diverse plausible behaviors to select an associated velocity profile sampled from the real-world data of the dataset that resembles the sampled one behavior and feeding the road graph and the sampled velocity profile with a desired destination to a dynamics simulator to generate a plurality of simulated diverse trajectories output on a visualization device.

Simulating diverse long-term future trajectories in road scenes

Methods and systems for training a trajectory prediction model and performing a vehicle maneuver include encoding a set of training data to generate encoded training vectors, where the training data includes trajectory information for agents over time. Trajectory scenarios are simulated based on the encoded training vectors, with each simulated trajectory scenario representing one or more agents with respective agent trajectories, to generate simulated training data. A predictive neural network model is trained using the simulated training data to generate predicted trajectory scenarios based on a detected scene.

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