Graph Attention Mechanism-based Method for Trajectory Prediction in Map-Free Scenes

Abstract

Existing trajectory prediction methods rely heavily on high-definition maps, which are time-consuming, costly, and complex to acquire. This makes it difficult for them to quickly adapt to the widespread adoption of intelligent transportation. To address the problem of vehicle trajectory prediction in map-free scenes, a trajectory prediction method based on spatio-temporal features of multi-modal data is proposed in this paper. Multiple spatio-temporal interaction graphs are constructed from the history of the trajectory, temporal and spatial attention are cross-utilized and deeply fused to model the spatio-temporal correlations between vehicles on the road. Finally, a residual network is used for a multi-objective and multi-modal trajectory generation. The model is trained and tested on the real dataset, Argoverse 2, and the experimental results show that compared with the CRAT-Pred, this model can improve minADE, minFDE and Miss Rate(MR) metrics in single-modal prediction by 3.86%, 3.89%, and 0.48%, and in multi-modal prediction by 0.78%, 0.96% and 0.42%. Hence, the proposed trajectory prediction method can efficiently capture the temporal and spatial characteristics of vehicle movement trajectories and can be effectively applied in related fields such as autonomous driving.