arXiv AI
Sep 24

Kairos: Grounded Forecasting of Presence and Directional Flow in 4D Scene Graphs

Kairos extends a hierarchical 3D scene graph to a 4D scene graph, storing for each voxel a directional mixture and a presence rate. Spectral predictors forecast both the probability of people being present and the full directional distribution of their motion at any future query time. The model supports conditional queries via pairwise flow dependence and provides calibrated credible intervals that tighten as observations accumulate.

By Iacopo Catalano, Julio A. Placed, Javier Civera, Jorge Pe\~na Queralta
arXiv AI
Sep 10

PV-WM: A Heterogeneous Micro-Macro World Model for Articulated Pedestrian-Vehicle Co-Rollout

PV-WM is a history‑only world model that jointly predicts pedestrian root motion, 15‑joint articulation, and vehicle kinematic states in a synchronized heterogeneous state. It uses recurrent updates to generate pedestrian and vehicle motion chunks, reconstructing vehicle boxes from predicted center, heading, and observed extent, and recomputes pedestrian‑vehicle geometry after each transition. Compared to a one‑shot predictor, PV‑WM reduces Root ADE by 12.7% and MPJPE by 14.8%, and across 824 Waymo contexts it lowers Root ADE by 5.2%, MPJPE by 7.6%, P‑V distance error by 11.9%, and oriented‑box closest‑approach error by 5.8%, while using 57.1% fewer parameters, 96.5% fewer FLOPs, and 25.5% lower p95 latency.

By Haozhuang Chi, Jingsong Liang, Ziying Song, Lei Yang, Shihao Li, Haoruo Zhang, Chen Lv
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

MamMA: A Mamba-Based Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Algorithm Considering Occupancy Map and Pedestrian Awareness States

MamMA is a pedestrian trajectory prediction algorithm that leverages LiDAR-generated occupancy maps and egocentric vision sensor data. It partitions the occupancy map into patches to extract obstacle features and incorporates pedestrian awareness states, which influence perception and speed. Using a Mamba-based model, MamMA predicts future trajectories and outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods on multiple benchmark datasets.

By Juncen Long, Xiaofeng Jin, Gianluca Bardaro, Simone Mentasti, Matteo Matteucci