Thesis Student (m/f/d) - AI for Automotive Trajectory Prediction

DENSO, the world's second largest mobility supplier, is leading in developing and providing components and systems for automotive components such as heating, air conditioning, motor cooling, exhaust gas aftertreatment, automotive electrics and electronics and instrumentation.

Trajectory prediction models aim to forecast how agents such as pedestrians or vehicles will move in the future. Many models have been proposed, but they are often evaluated under different settings. This makes it difficult to understand which approaches work best and why.

This master’s thesis focuses on systematically benchmarking and enhancing major trajectory prediction models in a consistent and structured way, following their development over time. The goal is to build a clear understanding of how different modeling choices affect performance, robustness, and generalization.

Based on this analysis, the project will explore simple and effective improvements or a unified modeling approach that combines the strengths of existing methods.

Key Research Areas and Tasks

• Benchmarking major trajectory prediction models under a unified and reproducible setup
• Analysis of failure cases in trajectory prediction (e.g., collisions, unrealistic trajectories, lack of diversity)
• Development of a clean benchmarking pipeline for fair comparison
• Investigation of modeling improvements or a unified architecture
• Evaluation using common metrics (e.g., ADE, FDE)

• You are interested in autonomous driving, machine learning, or robotics.
• Basic knowledge of deep learning and sequence modeling.
• Hands-on experience with reading and adapting research codebases.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience with experiments and data analysis is a plus.

Employee benefits: Urban Sports Club, etc.

Attractive work environment: Modern offices, on-site cafeteria, free parking

International company: Career opportunities in a global setting

Open corporate culture: Diverse, multicultural team

Events: Regular company and team events

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