Nicola Conci

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AG-GAN: An Attentive Group-Aware GAN for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction

Yue Song, Niccolò Bisagno, Syed Zohaib Hassan, Nicola Conci

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Auto-TLDR; An attentive group-aware GAN for motion prediction in crowded scenarios

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Understanding human behaviors in crowded scenarios requires analyzing not only the position of the subjects in space, but also the scene context. Existing approaches mostly rely on the motion history of each pedestrian and model the interactions among people by considering the entire surrounding neighborhood. In our approach, we address the problem of motion prediction by applying coherent group clustering and a global attention mechanism on the LSTM-based Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The proposed model consists of an attentive group-aware GAN that observes the agents' past motion and predicts future paths, using (i) a group pooling module to model neighborhood interaction, and (ii) an attention module to specifically focus on hidden states. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposal outperforms state-of-the-art models on common benchmark datasets, and is able to generate socially-acceptable trajectories.

Weight Estimation from an RGB-D Camera in Top-View Configuration

Marco Mameli, Marina Paolanti, Nicola Conci, Filippo Tessaro, Emanuele Frontoni, Primo Zingaretti

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Auto-TLDR; Top-View Weight Estimation using Deep Neural Networks

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The development of so-called soft-biometrics aims at providing information related to the physical and behavioural characteristics of a person. This paper focuses on bodyweight estimation based on the observation from a top-view RGB-D camera. In fact, the capability to estimate the weight of a person can be of help in many different applications, from health-related scenarios to business intelligence and retail analytics. To deal with this issue, a TVWE (Top-View Weight Estimation) framework is proposed with the aim of predicting the weight. The approach relies on the adoption of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that have been trained on depth data. Each network has also been modified in its top section to replace classification with prediction inference. The performance of five state-of-art DNNs has been compared, namely VGG16, ResNet, Inception, DenseNet and Efficient-Net. In addition, a convolutional auto-encoder has also been included for completeness. Considering the limited literature in this domain, the TVWE framework has been evaluated on a new publicly available dataset: “VRAI Weight estimation Dataset”, which also collects, for each subject, labels related to weight, gender, and height. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed methods are suitable for this task, bringing different and significant insights for the application of the solution in different domains.