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Main Authors: Gupta, Pranay, Biswas, Abhijat, Admoni, Henny, Held, David
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02467
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author Gupta, Pranay
Biswas, Abhijat
Admoni, Henny
Held, David
author_facet Gupta, Pranay
Biswas, Abhijat
Admoni, Henny
Held, David
contents The ability to identify important objects in a complex and dynamic driving environment is essential for autonomous driving agents to make safe and efficient driving decisions. It also helps assistive driving systems decide when to alert drivers. We tackle object importance estimation in a data-driven fashion and introduce HOIST - Human-annotated Object Importance in Simulated Traffic. HOIST contains driving scenarios with human-annotated importance labels for vehicles and pedestrians. We additionally propose a novel approach that relies on counterfactual reasoning to estimate an object's importance. We generate counterfactual scenarios by modifying the motion of objects and ascribe importance based on how the modifications affect the ego vehicle's driving. Our approach outperforms strong baselines for the task of object importance estimation on HOIST. We also perform ablation studies to justify our design choices and show the significance of the different components of our proposed approach.
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spellingShingle Object Importance Estimation using Counterfactual Reasoning for Intelligent Driving
Gupta, Pranay
Biswas, Abhijat
Admoni, Henny
Held, David
Robotics
The ability to identify important objects in a complex and dynamic driving environment is essential for autonomous driving agents to make safe and efficient driving decisions. It also helps assistive driving systems decide when to alert drivers. We tackle object importance estimation in a data-driven fashion and introduce HOIST - Human-annotated Object Importance in Simulated Traffic. HOIST contains driving scenarios with human-annotated importance labels for vehicles and pedestrians. We additionally propose a novel approach that relies on counterfactual reasoning to estimate an object's importance. We generate counterfactual scenarios by modifying the motion of objects and ascribe importance based on how the modifications affect the ego vehicle's driving. Our approach outperforms strong baselines for the task of object importance estimation on HOIST. We also perform ablation studies to justify our design choices and show the significance of the different components of our proposed approach.
title Object Importance Estimation using Counterfactual Reasoning for Intelligent Driving
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02467