Generation of Pedestrian Pose Structures using Generative Adversarial Networks

Abstract

The safety of vulnerable road users is of paramount importance as transport moves towards fully automated driving. The richness of real-world data required for testing autonomous vehicles is limited, and furthermore, the available data does not have a fair representation of different scenarios and rare events. This work presents a novel approach for the generation of human pose structures, specifically the type of pose structures that would appear to be in pedestrian scenarios. The results show that the generated pedestrian structures are indistinguishable from the ground truth pose structures when classified using a suitably trained classifier. The paper demonstrates that the Generative Adversarial Network architecture can be used to create realistic new training samples, and, in future, new pedestrian events.