A better understanding of interactive pedestrian behavior in critical traffic situations is essential for the development of enhanced pedestrian safety systems. Real-world traffic observations play a decisive role in this, since they represent behavior in an unbiased way. In this work, we present an approach of how a subset of very considerable pedestrian-vehicle interactions can be derived from a camera-based observation system. For this purpose, we have examined road user trajectories automatically for establishing temporal and spatial relationships, using 110h hours of video recordings. In order to identify critical interactions, our approach combines the metric post-encroachment time with a newly introduced motion adaption metric. From more than 11,000 reconstructed pedestrian trajectories, 259 potential scenarios remained, using a post-encroachment time threshold of 2s. However, in 95% of cases, no adaptation of the pedestrian behavior was observed due to avoiding criticality. Applying the proposed motion adaption metric, only 21 critical scenarios remained. Manual investigations revealed that critical pedestrian vehicle interactions were present in 7 of those. They were further analyzed and made publicly available for developing pedestrian behavior models3. The results indicate that critical interactions in which the pedestrian perceives and reacts to the vehicle at a relatively late stage can be extracted using the proposed method.
TrafficPredict: Trajectory Prediction for Heterogeneous Traffic-Agents
Baidu Research(百度研究院);Baidu Inc(百度公司);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);University of Maryland at College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校)
Harnessing ADAS for Pedestrian Safety: A Data-Driven Exploration of Fatality Reduction
Department of Engineering, South Carolina State University(南卡罗来纳州立大学工程系);Department of Computational Engineering and Data Science, North Carolina A\&T State University(北卡罗来纳州A&T州立大学计算工程与数据科学系)
Autonomous Vehicles that Interact with Pedestrians: A Survey of Theory and Practice
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University(约克大学电气工程与计算机科学系);York University(约克大学);Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science(电气工程与计算机科学系);Toronto(多伦多);ON, Canada(加拿大安大略省)