JaywalkerVR: A VR System for Collecting Safety-Critical Pedestrian-Vehicle Interactions

Kenta Mukoya,Erica Weng,Rohan Choudhury,Kris Kitani,Kenta Mukoya,Erica Weng,Rohan Choudhury,Kris Kitani

Developing autonomous vehicles that can safely interact with pedestrians requires large amounts of pedestrian and vehicle data in order to learn accurate pedestrian-vehicle interaction models. However, gathering data that include crucial but rare scenarios - such as pedestrians jaywalking into heavy traffic - can be costly and unsafe to collect. We propose a virtual reality human-in-the-loop simul...