Simulating diverse long-term future trajectories in road scenes

Abstract

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.