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Social Ways: Learning Multi-Modal Distributions of Pedestrian Trajectories with GANs

arXiv 1904.09507 ↗First posted 20 Apr 2019cs.CVcited by 79

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This paper proposes a novel approach for predicting the motion of pedestrians interacting with others. It uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to sample plausible predictions for any agent in the scene. As GANs are very susceptible to mode collapsing and dropping, we show that the recently proposed Info-GAN allows dramatic improvements in multi-modal pedestrian trajectory prediction to avoid these issues. We also left out L2-loss in training the generator, unlike some previous works, because it causes serious mode collapsing though faster convergence. We show through experiments on real and synthetic data that the proposed method leads to generate more diverse samples and to preserve the modes of the predictive distribution. In particular, to prove this claim, we have designed a toy example dataset of trajectories that can be used to assess the performance of different methods in preserving the predictive distribution modes.

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  1. 2022SocialVAE: Human Trajectory Prediction using Timewise Latentscited by 67
  2. 2021Multi-Person 3D Motion Prediction with Multi-Range Transformerscited by 63
  3. 2021MG-GAN: A Multi-Generator Model Preventing Out-of-Distribution Samples in Pedestrian Trajectory Predictioncited by 61
  4. 2021TRiPOD: Human Trajectory and Pose Dynamics Forecasting in the Wildcited by 52
  5. 2022Adaptive Trajectory Prediction via Transferable GNNcited by 51
  6. 2023Uncovering the Missing Pattern: Unified Framework Towards Trajectory Imputation and Predictioncited by 47
  7. 2021Interpretable Social Anchors for Human Trajectory Forecasting in Crowdscited by 44
  8. 2022Social-Implicit: Rethinking Trajectory Prediction Evaluation and The Effectiveness of Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimationcited by 40
  9. 2022How many Observations are Enough? Knowledge Distillation for Trajectory Forecastingcited by 35
  10. 2023Social-Transmotion: Promptable Human Trajectory Predictioncited by 33
  11. 2021Are socially-aware trajectory prediction models really socially-aware?cited by 32
  12. 2021Review of Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Methods: Comparing Deep Learning and Knowledge-based Approachescited by 30
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  2. 2022Forecasting from LiDAR via Future Object Detectioncited by 28
  3. 2023Stochastic Multi-Person 3D Motion Forecastingcited by 28
  4. 2023SocialCircle: Learning the Angle-based Social Interaction Representation for Pedestrian Trajectory Predictioncited by 27
  5. 2022End-to-End Trajectory Distribution Prediction Based on Occupancy Grid Mapscited by 22
  6. 2024Clifford Group Equivariant Simplicial Message Passing Networkscited by 22
  7. 2024Adapting to Length Shift: FlexiLength Network for Trajectory Predictioncited by 22
  8. 2021FloMo: Tractable Motion Prediction with Normalizing Flowscited by 21
  9. 2021ShuttleNet: Position-aware Fusion of Rally Progress and Player Styles for Stroke Forecasting in Badmintoncited by 21
  10. 2021MSN: Multi-Style Network for Trajectory Predictioncited by 19
  11. 2021SSAGCN: Social Soft Attention Graph Convolution Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Predictioncited by 19
  12. 2024Sports-Traj: A Unified Trajectory Generation Model for Multi-Agent Movement in Sportscited by 19
  13. 2021Unlimited Neighborhood Interaction for Heterogeneous Trajectory Predictioncited by 17
  14. 2023ContactArt: Learning 3D Interaction Priors for Category-level Articulated Object and Hand Poses Estimationcited by 16
  15. 2025Unified Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion for Multi-Agent Trajectory Modelingcited by 15
  16. 2024Diffusion-Based Environment-Aware Trajectory Predictioncited by 14
  17. 2025Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving: Progress, Limitations, and Future Directionscited by 14
  18. 2021Trajectory Prediction with Linguistic Representationscited by 13
  19. 2022Concept Graph Neural Networks for Surgical Video Understandingcited by 13
  20. 2021AVGCN: Trajectory Prediction using Graph Convolutional Networks Guided by Human Attentioncited by 12
  21. 2022Safety-compliant Generative Adversarial Networks for Human Trajectory Forecastingcited by 12
  22. 2022RAP: Risk-Aware Prediction for Robust Planningcited by 12
  23. 2023Context-Aware Timewise VAEs for Real-Time Vehicle Trajectory Predictioncited by 12
  24. 2024TranSPORTmer: A Holistic Approach to Trajectory Understanding in Multi-Agent Sportscited by 11
  25. 2023Graph-Based Interaction-Aware Multimodal 2D Vehicle Trajectory Prediction using Diffusion Graph Convolutional Networkscited by 10
  26. 2021SCAN: A Spatial Context Attentive Network for Joint Multi-Agent Intent Predictioncited by 9
  27. 2023Social Motion Prediction with Cognitive Hierarchiescited by 9
  28. 2025BP-SGCN: Behavioral Pseudo-Label Informed Sparse Graph Convolution Network for Pedestrian and Heterogeneous Trajectory Predictioncited by 9
  29. 2023Vision-based Multi-future Trajectory Prediction: A Surveycited by 8
  30. 2023TrajPAC: Towards Robustness Verification of Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Modelscited by 8
  31. 2025STFlow: Data-Coupled Flow Matching for Geometric Trajectory Simulationcited by 8
  32. 2021Social-IWSTCNN: A Social Interaction-Weighted Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Neural Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Urban Traffic Scenarioscited by 7
  33. 2022Learning the Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction for Pedestrian Trajectory Predictioncited by 7
  34. 2024Robot Interaction Behavior Generation based on Social Motion Forecasting for Human-Robot Interactioncited by 7
  35. 2022Exploring Attention GAN for Vehicle Motion Predictioncited by 6
  36. 2024Hypergraph-based Motion Generation with Multi-modal Interaction Relational Reasoningcited by 6
  37. 2022A Graph and Attentive Multi-Path Convolutional Network for Traffic Predictioncited by 5
  38. 2024Vulnerable Road User Detection and Safety Enhancement: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 5

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