VRU-CIPI: Crossing Intention Prediction at Intersections for Improving Vulnerable Road Users Safety

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Autores principales: Abdelrahman, Ahmed S., Abdel-Aty, Mohamed, Tran, Quoc Dai
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Publicado: 2025
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author Abdelrahman, Ahmed S.
Abdel-Aty, Mohamed
Tran, Quoc Dai
author_facet Abdelrahman, Ahmed S.
Abdel-Aty, Mohamed
Tran, Quoc Dai
contents Understanding and predicting human behavior in-thewild, particularly at urban intersections, remains crucial for enhancing interaction safety between road users. Among the most critical behaviors are crossing intentions of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), where misinterpretation may result in dangerous conflicts with oncoming vehicles. In this work, we propose the VRU-CIPI framework with a sequential attention-based model designed to predict VRU crossing intentions at intersections. VRU-CIPI employs Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) to capture temporal dynamics in VRU movements, combined with a multi-head Transformer self-attention mechanism to encode contextual and spatial dependencies critical for predicting crossing direction. Evaluated on UCF-VRU dataset, our proposed achieves state-of-the-art performance with an accuracy of 96.45% and achieving real-time inference speed reaching 33 frames per second. Furthermore, by integrating with Infrastructure-to-Vehicles (I2V) communication, our approach can proactively enhance intersection safety through timely activation of crossing signals and providing early warnings to connected vehicles, ensuring smoother and safer interactions for all road users.
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spellingShingle VRU-CIPI: Crossing Intention Prediction at Intersections for Improving Vulnerable Road Users Safety
Abdelrahman, Ahmed S.
Abdel-Aty, Mohamed
Tran, Quoc Dai
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Understanding and predicting human behavior in-thewild, particularly at urban intersections, remains crucial for enhancing interaction safety between road users. Among the most critical behaviors are crossing intentions of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), where misinterpretation may result in dangerous conflicts with oncoming vehicles. In this work, we propose the VRU-CIPI framework with a sequential attention-based model designed to predict VRU crossing intentions at intersections. VRU-CIPI employs Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) to capture temporal dynamics in VRU movements, combined with a multi-head Transformer self-attention mechanism to encode contextual and spatial dependencies critical for predicting crossing direction. Evaluated on UCF-VRU dataset, our proposed achieves state-of-the-art performance with an accuracy of 96.45% and achieving real-time inference speed reaching 33 frames per second. Furthermore, by integrating with Infrastructure-to-Vehicles (I2V) communication, our approach can proactively enhance intersection safety through timely activation of crossing signals and providing early warnings to connected vehicles, ensuring smoother and safer interactions for all road users.
title VRU-CIPI: Crossing Intention Prediction at Intersections for Improving Vulnerable Road Users Safety
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09935