Traffic-Aware Pedestrian Intention Prediction
This work addresses a critical safety problem for autonomous vehicles by improving prediction accuracy in complex urban environments, though it is incremental in nature.
The paper tackles pedestrian intention prediction for autonomous vehicles by integrating dynamic traffic signals and contextual scene information, achieving a 4.75% higher accuracy than the baseline on the PIE dataset.
Accurate pedestrian intention estimation is crucial for the safe navigation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and hence attracts a lot of research attention. However, current models often fail to adequately consider dynamic traffic signals and contextual scene information, which are critical for real-world applications. This paper presents a Traffic-Aware Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network (TA-STGCN) that integrates traffic signs and their states (Red, Yellow, Green) into pedestrian intention prediction. Our approach introduces the integration of dynamic traffic signal states and bounding box size as key features, allowing the model to capture both spatial and temporal dependencies in complex urban environments. The model surpasses existing methods in accuracy. Specifically, TA-STGCN achieves a 4.75% higher accuracy compared to the baseline model on the PIE dataset, demonstrating its effectiveness in improving pedestrian intention prediction.