Autonomous Vehicle Path Prediction Using Conditional Variational Autoencoder Networks

Abstract

Path prediction of autonomous vehicles is an essential requirement under any given traffic scenario. Trajectory of several agent vehicles in the vicinity of ego vehicle, at least for a short future, is needed to be predicted in order to decide upon the maneuver of the ego vehicle. We explore variational autoencoder networks to obtain multimodal trajectories of agent vehicles. In our work, we condition the network on past trajectories of agents and traffic scenes as well. The latent space representation of traffic scenes is achieved by using another variational autoencoder network. The performance of the proposed networks is compared against a residual baseline model.