Intention-Aware Pedestrian Avoidance

A critical component of autonomous driving in urban environment is the vehicle’s ability to interact safely and intelligently with the human drivers and on-road pedestrians. This requires identifying the human intentions in real time based on a limited observation history and reacting accordingly. In the context of pedestrian avoidance, traditional approaches like proximity based reactive avoidance, or taking the most likely behavior of the pedestrian into account, often fail to generate a safe and successful avoidance strategy. This is mainly because they fail to take into account the human intention and the inherent uncertainty resulting in identifying such intentions from direct observations.

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