Title
Automatic Geographic Enrichment by Multi-modal Bike Sensing.
Abstract
This paper focuses on the automatic geo-annotation of road/terrain types by collaborative bike sensing. The proposed terrain classification system is mainly based on the analysis of volunteered geographic information gathered by cyclists. By using participatory accelerometer and GPS sensor data collected from the cyclists' smartphones, which is enriched with image data from geographic web services or the smartphone camera, the proposed system is able to distinguish between 6 different terrain types. For the classification of the multi-modal bike data, the system employs a random decision forest (RDF), which compared favorably for the geo-annotation task against different classification algorithms. The system classifies the features of every instance of road (over a 5 seconds interval) and maps the results onto the corresponding GPS coordinates. Finally, based on all the collected instances, we can annotate geographic maps with the terrain types, create more advanced route statistics and facilitate geo-based recommender systems. The accuracy of the bike sensing system is 92% for 6-class terrain classification. For the 2-class on-road/off-road classification an accuracy of 97 % is achieved, almost six percent above the state-of-the-art in this domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-662-44788-8_22
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-modal sensing,Image classification,Geo-annotation,Bike-sensing,Volunteered geographic information,Accelerometer analysis,Mobile vision,Machine learning
Recommender system,Data mining,Computer science,Terrain,Geographic coordinate system,Knowledge management,Global Positioning System,Volunteered geographic information,Statistical classification,Random forest,Contextual image classification
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
456
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven Verstockt15513.58
Viktor Slavkovikj2795.41
Pieterjan De Potter3376.51
Olivier Janssens4169.32
Jürgen Slowack513512.74
Rik Van de Walle62040238.28