DeepSignals: Predicting Intent of Drivers Through Visual Signals

Abstract-- Detecting the intention of drivers is an essential task in self-driving, necessary to anticipate sudden events like lane changes and stops. Turn signals and emergency flashers communicate such intentions, providing seconds of potentially critical reaction time. In this paper, we propose to detect these signals in video sequences by using a deep neural network that reasons about both spatial and temporal information. Our experiments on more than a million frames show high per-frame accuracy in very challenging scenarios. I. INTRODUCTION Autonomous driving has risen as one of the most impactful applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), where it has the potential to change the way we live.