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Modelling and Optimization of Data-Driven Scene Graphs
International audienceThis article presents data-driven scene graphs, a set of models that address the needs of safety-critical user interfaces design. Data-driven scene graphs merge a description of the user interface behavior as a data-flow program with a description of its graphics content as a hierarchical structure of vector and raster elements. We present a formal description of these models, discuss their semantics and equivalence, and demonstrate that they are suitable for a class of rasterization optimizations based on selective pre-rendering
Simulation modelling and visualisation: toolkits for building artificial worlds
Simulations users at all levels make heavy use of compute resources to drive computational
simulations for greatly varying applications areas of research using different simulation
paradigms. Simulations are implemented in many software forms, ranging from highly standardised
and general models that run in proprietary software packages to ad hoc hand-crafted
simulations codes for very specific applications. Visualisation of the workings or results of a
simulation is another highly valuable capability for simulation developers and practitioners.
There are many different software libraries and methods available for creating a visualisation
layer for simulations, and it is often a difficult and time-consuming process to assemble a
toolkit of these libraries and other resources that best suits a particular simulation model. We
present here a break-down of the main simulation paradigms, and discuss differing toolkits and
approaches that different researchers have taken to tackle coupled simulation and visualisation
in each paradigm
Context-aware Human Motion Prediction
The problem of predicting human motion given a sequence of past observations
is at the core of many applications in robotics and computer vision. Current
state-of-the-art formulate this problem as a sequence-to-sequence task, in
which a historical of 3D skeletons feeds a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) that
predicts future movements, typically in the order of 1 to 2 seconds. However,
one aspect that has been obviated so far, is the fact that human motion is
inherently driven by interactions with objects and/or other humans in the
environment. In this paper, we explore this scenario using a novel
context-aware motion prediction architecture. We use a semantic-graph model
where the nodes parameterize the human and objects in the scene and the edges
their mutual interactions. These interactions are iteratively learned through a
graph attention layer, fed with the past observations, which now include both
object and human body motions. Once this semantic graph is learned, we inject
it to a standard RNN to predict future movements of the human/s and object/s.
We consider two variants of our architecture, either freezing the contextual
interactions in the future of updating them. A thorough evaluation in the
"Whole-Body Human Motion Database" shows that in both cases, our context-aware
networks clearly outperform baselines in which the context information is not
considered.Comment: Accepted at CVPR2
CARPe Posterum: A Convolutional Approach for Real-time Pedestrian Path Prediction
Pedestrian path prediction is an essential topic in computer vision and video
understanding. Having insight into the movement of pedestrians is crucial for
ensuring safe operation in a variety of applications including autonomous
vehicles, social robots, and environmental monitoring. Current works in this
area utilize complex generative or recurrent methods to capture many possible
futures. However, despite the inherent real-time nature of predicting future
paths, little work has been done to explore accurate and computationally
efficient approaches for this task. To this end, we propose a convolutional
approach for real-time pedestrian path prediction, CARPe. It utilizes a
variation of Graph Isomorphism Networks in combination with an agile
convolutional neural network design to form a fast and accurate path prediction
approach. Notable results in both inference speed and prediction accuracy are
achieved, improving FPS considerably in comparison to current state-of-the-art
methods while delivering competitive accuracy on well-known path prediction
datasets.Comment: AAAI-21 Camera Read
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