Estimating social relation from trajectories

Zeynep Yucel; Francesco Zanlungo; Claudio Feliciani; Adrien Gregorj; Takayuki Kanda

doi:10.17815/CD.2020.54

Authors

Zeynep Yucel Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Francesco Zanlungo ATR IRC, Kyoto, Japan
Claudio Feliciani University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Adrien Gregorj Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Takayuki Kanda ATR IRC, Kyoto, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2020.54

Keywords:

dyads, interaction, pedestrian groups, recognition, social relation

Abstract

This study focuses on social pedestrian groups in public spaces and makes an effort to identify the social relation between the group members. We particularly consider dyads having coalitional or mating relation. We derive several observables from individual and group trajectories, which are suggested to be distinctive for these two sorts of relations and propose a recognition algorithm taking these observables as features and yielding an estimation of social relation in a probabilistic manner at every sampling step. On the average, we detect coalitional relation with 87% and mating relation with 81% accuracy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to infer social relation from joint (loco)motion patterns and we consider the detection rates to be a satisfactory considering the inherent challenge of the problem.

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