In this article, we investigate the use of 3D human poses for trajectory forecasting of vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as pedestrians and cyclists, in road traffic. The forecast is based on past movements of the respective VRU and an important aspect in driver assistance systems and autonomous driving, which both could increase VRU safety. The 3D poses represent the entire body posture of the VRUs and can therefore provide important indicators for trajectory forecasting. In particular, we investigate the influence of different joint combinations and input sequence lengths of past movements on the accuracy of trajectory forecasts for pedestrians and cyclists. In addition, we divide VRU movements into the motion types wait, start, move, and stop and evaluate the results separately for each of them. Comparing it to an existing, solely head based trajectory forecast, we show the advantages of using 3D poses. With an input sequence length of 1.0 s, the forecasting error is reduced by 17.9 % for starting, 8.18 % for moving, and 11.0 % for stopping cyclists. For pedestrians, the error is reduced by 6.93 %, 2.73 %, and 5.02 %, respectively. With shorter input sequences, the improvements over the solely head based method remain for cyclists and even increase for pedestrians.


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    Title :

    Pose Based Trajectory Forecast of Vulnerable Road Users


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    Publication date :

    2019-12-01


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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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