Stay on Track: A Frenet Wrapper to Overcome Off-road Trajectories in Vehicle Motion Prediction

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Auteurs principaux: Hallgarten, Marcel, Kisa, Ismail, Stoll, Martin, Zell, Andreas
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author Hallgarten, Marcel
Kisa, Ismail
Stoll, Martin
Zell, Andreas
author_facet Hallgarten, Marcel
Kisa, Ismail
Stoll, Martin
Zell, Andreas
contents Predicting the future motion of observed vehicles is a crucial enabler for safe autonomous driving. The field of motion prediction has seen large progress recently with state-of-the-Art (sotA) models achieving impressive results on large-scale public benchmarks. However, recent work revealed that learning-based methods are prone to predict off-road trajectories in challenging scenarios. These can be created by perturbing existing scenarios with additional turns in front of the target vehicle while the motion history is left unchanged. We argue that this indicates that SotA models do not consider the map information sufficiently and demonstrate how this can be solved by representing model inputs and outputs in a Frenet frame defined by lane centreline sequences. To this end, we present a general wrapper that leverages a Frenet representation of the scene, and that can be applied to SotA models without changing their architecture. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in a comprehensive benchmark using two SotA motion prediction models. Our experiments show that this reduces the off-road rate on challenging scenarios by more than 90% without sacrificing average performance.
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spellingShingle Stay on Track: A Frenet Wrapper to Overcome Off-road Trajectories in Vehicle Motion Prediction
Hallgarten, Marcel
Kisa, Ismail
Stoll, Martin
Zell, Andreas
Robotics
Predicting the future motion of observed vehicles is a crucial enabler for safe autonomous driving. The field of motion prediction has seen large progress recently with state-of-the-Art (sotA) models achieving impressive results on large-scale public benchmarks. However, recent work revealed that learning-based methods are prone to predict off-road trajectories in challenging scenarios. These can be created by perturbing existing scenarios with additional turns in front of the target vehicle while the motion history is left unchanged. We argue that this indicates that SotA models do not consider the map information sufficiently and demonstrate how this can be solved by representing model inputs and outputs in a Frenet frame defined by lane centreline sequences. To this end, we present a general wrapper that leverages a Frenet representation of the scene, and that can be applied to SotA models without changing their architecture. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in a comprehensive benchmark using two SotA motion prediction models. Our experiments show that this reduces the off-road rate on challenging scenarios by more than 90% without sacrificing average performance.
title Stay on Track: A Frenet Wrapper to Overcome Off-road Trajectories in Vehicle Motion Prediction
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00605