NAVIGATION BASED ON PARTIALLY OCCLUDED PEDESTRIANS

Systems and methods are provided for navigating a host vehicle. In an embodiment, a processing device may be configured to receive a captured image acquired by a camera onboard the host vehicle; provide the captured image to an analysis module configured to generate an output including an indicator of a contact position of the occluded pedestrian with the ground surface, the analysis module including a trained model trained based a plurality of training images having been modified to occlude a region where a training pedestrian contacts a training ground surface; receive from the analysis module the generated output, including the indicator of the contact position of the occluded pedestrian with the ground surface; and cause at least one navigational action by the host vehicle based on the indicator of the contact position of the occluded pedestrian with the ground surface.