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Main Authors: Feng, Chen, Zhou, Hangning, Lin, Huadong, Zhang, Zhigang, Xu, Ziyao, Zhang, Chi, Zhou, Boyu, Shen, Shaojie
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10280
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author Feng, Chen
Zhou, Hangning
Lin, Huadong
Zhang, Zhigang
Xu, Ziyao
Zhang, Chi
Zhou, Boyu
Shen, Shaojie
author_facet Feng, Chen
Zhou, Hangning
Lin, Huadong
Zhang, Zhigang
Xu, Ziyao
Zhang, Chi
Zhou, Boyu
Shen, Shaojie
contents Predicting the future behavior of agents is a fundamental task in autonomous vehicle domains. Accurate prediction relies on comprehending the surrounding map, which significantly regularizes agent behaviors. However, existing methods have limitations in exploiting the map and exhibit a strong dependence on historical trajectories, which yield unsatisfactory prediction performance and robustness. Additionally, their heavy network architectures impede real-time applications. To tackle these problems, we propose Map-Agent Coupled Transformer (MacFormer) for real-time and robust trajectory prediction. Our framework explicitly incorporates map constraints into the network via two carefully designed modules named coupled map and reference extractor. A novel multi-task optimization strategy (MTOS) is presented to enhance learning of topology and rule constraints. We also devise bilateral query scheme in context fusion for a more efficient and lightweight network. We evaluated our approach on Argoverse 1, Argoverse 2, and nuScenes real-world benchmarks, where it all achieved state-of-the-art performance with the lowest inference latency and smallest model size. Experiments also demonstrate that our framework is resilient to imperfect tracklet inputs. Furthermore, we show that by combining with our proposed strategies, classical models outperform their baselines, further validating the versatility of our framework.
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spellingShingle MacFormer: Map-Agent Coupled Transformer for Real-time and Robust Trajectory Prediction
Feng, Chen
Zhou, Hangning
Lin, Huadong
Zhang, Zhigang
Xu, Ziyao
Zhang, Chi
Zhou, Boyu
Shen, Shaojie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Predicting the future behavior of agents is a fundamental task in autonomous vehicle domains. Accurate prediction relies on comprehending the surrounding map, which significantly regularizes agent behaviors. However, existing methods have limitations in exploiting the map and exhibit a strong dependence on historical trajectories, which yield unsatisfactory prediction performance and robustness. Additionally, their heavy network architectures impede real-time applications. To tackle these problems, we propose Map-Agent Coupled Transformer (MacFormer) for real-time and robust trajectory prediction. Our framework explicitly incorporates map constraints into the network via two carefully designed modules named coupled map and reference extractor. A novel multi-task optimization strategy (MTOS) is presented to enhance learning of topology and rule constraints. We also devise bilateral query scheme in context fusion for a more efficient and lightweight network. We evaluated our approach on Argoverse 1, Argoverse 2, and nuScenes real-world benchmarks, where it all achieved state-of-the-art performance with the lowest inference latency and smallest model size. Experiments also demonstrate that our framework is resilient to imperfect tracklet inputs. Furthermore, we show that by combining with our proposed strategies, classical models outperform their baselines, further validating the versatility of our framework.
title MacFormer: Map-Agent Coupled Transformer for Real-time and Robust Trajectory Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10280