Multi-person pose forecasting involves predicting the future body poses of multiple individuals over time, involving complex movement dynamics and interaction dependencies. Its relevance spans various fields, including computer vision, robotics, human–computer interaction, and surveillance. This task is particularly important in sensor-driven applications, where motion capture systems, including vision-based sensors and IMUs, provide crucial data for analyzing human movement. This paper introduces GCN-Transformer, a novel model for multi-person pose forecasting that leverages the integration of Graph Convolutional Network and Transformer architectures. We integrated novel loss terms during the training phase to enable the model to learn both interaction dependencies and the trajectories of multiple joints simultaneously. Additionally, we propose a novel pose forecasting evaluation metric called Final Joint Position and Trajectory Error (FJPTE), which assesses both local movement dynamics and global movement errors by considering the final position and the trajectory leading up to it, providing a more comprehensive assessment of movement dynamics. Our model uniquely integrates scene-level graph-based encoding and personalized attention-based decoding, introducing a novel architecture for multi-person pose forecasting that achieves state-of-the-art results across four datasets. The model is trained and evaluated on the CMU-Mocap, MuPoTS-3D, SoMoF Benchmark, and ExPI datasets, which are collected using sensor-based motion capture systems, ensuring its applicability in real-world scenarios. Comprehensive evaluations on the CMU-Mocap, MuPoTS-3D, SoMoF Benchmark, and ExPI datasets demonstrate that the proposed GCN-Transformer model consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models according to the VIM and MPJPE metrics. Specifically, based on the MPJPE metric, GCN-Transformer shows a 4.7% improvement over the closest SOTA model on CMU-Mocap, 4.3% improvement over the closest SOTA model on MuPoTS-3D, 5% improvement over the closest SOTA model on the SoMoF Benchmark, and a 2.6% improvement over the closest SOTA model on the ExPI dataset. Unlike other models with performances that fluctuate across datasets, GCN-Transformer performs consistently, proving its robustness in multi-person pose forecasting and providing an excellent foundation for the application of GCN-Transformer in different domains.

This research evaluated the performance of 14 novel object detection models on a traffic dataset to reveal significant differences between the selected models. The goal was to generate recommendations for best-performing models for researchers coming into the domain. The performance is evaluated with respect to the size of objects, inference time, and the number of learnable parameters. The results show that even though several models have similar performance on the entire dataset, their performance on small and large objects can significantly differ. Also, the difference in inference time is significant and could influence the choice of a suitable model. The paper’s conclusion emphasizes the best-performing models based on their performance strengths.

Multi-person pose forecasting involves predicting the future body poses of multiple individuals over time, involving complex movement dynamics and interaction dependencies. Its relevance spans various fields, including computer vision, robotics, human-computer interaction, and surveillance. This paper introduces GCN-Transformer, a novel model for multi-person pose forecasting that leverages the integration of Graph Convolutional Network and Transformer architectures. We integrated novel loss terms during the training phase to enable the model to learn both interaction dependencies and the trajectories of multiple joints simultaneously. Additionally, we propose a novel pose forecasting evaluation metric called Final Joint Position and Trajectory Error (FJPTE), which assesses both local movement dynamics and global movement errors by considering the final position and the trajectory leading up to it, providing a more comprehensive assessment of movement dynamics. Comprehensive evaluations on the SoMoF Benchmark and ExPI datasets demonstrate that the proposed GCN-Transformer model consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models according to the VIM and MPJPE metrics. Specifically, GCN-Transformer shows a 5% improvement over the closest SOTA model on the SoMoF Benchmark’s MPJPE metric and a 2.6% improvement over the closest SOTA model on the ExPI dataset MPJPE metric. Unlike other models whose performance fluctuates across datasets, GCN-Transformer performs consistently, proving its robustness in multi-person pose forecasting and providing an excellent foundation for the application of GCN-Transformer in different domains. The code is available at https://github.com/RomeoSajina/GCN-Transformer.

As autonomous driving is quickly becoming a reality, the most considerable challenge with self-driving remains safety, as the car must process surroundings to make the correct predictions. This paper explores the detection and classification of moving objects, such as vehicles and pedestrians, on a pixel level. Using the CARLA simulator, we collected data from a single front-facing camera, thus excluding standard sensor technologies like lidar or radar. This research aims to test the generalization capabilities of models trained using front-camera images on inputs from differently positioned cameras capturing 360 surroundings. We tackle the described challenge with the task of instance segmentation using the most famous instance segmentation algorithms: Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network and YOLOv7. We show to what extent a monocular setup can be used for the instance segmentation of the perspectives that differ from the baseline captured by the front camera.