Studying the Effect of Explicit Interaction Representations on Learning Scene-level Distributions of Human Trajectories

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Hauptverfasser: Mészáros, Anna, Alonso-Mora, Javier, Kober, Jens
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author Mészáros, Anna
Alonso-Mora, Javier
Kober, Jens
author_facet Mészáros, Anna
Alonso-Mora, Javier
Kober, Jens
contents Effectively capturing the joint distribution of all agents in a scene is relevant for predicting the true evolution of the scene and in turn providing more accurate information to the decision processes of autonomous vehicles. While new models have been developed for this purpose in recent years, it remains unclear how to best represent the joint distributions particularly from the perspective of the interactions between agents. Thus far there is no clear consensus on how best to represent interactions between agents; whether they should be learned implicitly from data by neural networks, or explicitly modeled using the spatial and temporal relations that are more grounded in human decision-making. This paper aims to study various means of describing interactions within the same network structure and their effect on the final learned joint distributions. Our findings show that more often than not, simply allowing a network to establish interactive connections between agents based on data has a detrimental effect on performance. Instead, having well defined interactions (such as which agent of an agent pair passes first at an intersection) can often bring about a clear boost in performance.
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spellingShingle Studying the Effect of Explicit Interaction Representations on Learning Scene-level Distributions of Human Trajectories
Mészáros, Anna
Alonso-Mora, Javier
Kober, Jens
Robotics
Effectively capturing the joint distribution of all agents in a scene is relevant for predicting the true evolution of the scene and in turn providing more accurate information to the decision processes of autonomous vehicles. While new models have been developed for this purpose in recent years, it remains unclear how to best represent the joint distributions particularly from the perspective of the interactions between agents. Thus far there is no clear consensus on how best to represent interactions between agents; whether they should be learned implicitly from data by neural networks, or explicitly modeled using the spatial and temporal relations that are more grounded in human decision-making. This paper aims to study various means of describing interactions within the same network structure and their effect on the final learned joint distributions. Our findings show that more often than not, simply allowing a network to establish interactive connections between agents based on data has a detrimental effect on performance. Instead, having well defined interactions (such as which agent of an agent pair passes first at an intersection) can often bring about a clear boost in performance.
title Studying the Effect of Explicit Interaction Representations on Learning Scene-level Distributions of Human Trajectories
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04375