InSyn: Modeling Complex Interactions for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13397v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:23:04 GMT
• Title: InSyn: Modeling Complex Interactions for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
• Authors: Kaiyuan Zhai, Juan Chen, Chao Wang, Zeyi Xu,
• Abstract summary: InSyn is a novel Transformer-based model that captures diverse interaction patterns.<n>SSOS is a training strategy designed to alleviate the common issue of initial-step divergence in numerical time-series prediction.
• Score: 4.993499119395447
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate pedestrian trajectory prediction is crucial for intelligent applications, yet it remains highly challenging due to the complexity of interactions among pedestrians. Previous methods have primarily relied on relative positions to model pedestrian interactions; however, they tend to overlook specific interaction patterns such as paired walking or conflicting behaviors, limiting the prediction accuracy in crowded scenarios. To address this issue, we propose InSyn (Interaction-Synchronization Network), a novel Transformer-based model that explicitly captures diverse interaction patterns (e.g., walking in sync or conflicting) while effectively modeling direction-sensitive social behaviors. Additionally, we introduce a training strategy termed Seq-Start of Seq (SSOS), designed to alleviate the common issue of initial-step divergence in numerical time-series prediction. Experiments on the ETH and UCY datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms recent baselines significantly, especially in high-density scenarios. Furthermore, the SSOS strategy proves effective in improving sequential prediction performance, reducing the initial-step prediction error by approximately 6.58%.

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