Title
Spatio-temporal coupled Bayesian Robust Principal Component Analysis for road traffic event detection
Abstract
Road traffic sensors provide us with rich multi-variable datastreams about the current traffic conditions. Occasionally, there are unusual traffic events (such as accidents, jams, severe weather, etc) that disrupt the expected road traffic conditions. Detecting the occurrence of such events in an online and real-time manner is useful to drivers in planning their routes and in the management of the transportation infrastructure. We propose a new method for detecting traffic events that impact road traffic conditions by extending the Bayesian Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) approach. Our method couples multiple traffic datastreams so that they share a certain sparse structure. This sparse structure is used to localize traffic events in space and time. The traffic datastreams are measurements of different physical quantities (e.g. traffic flow, road occupancy) by different nearby sensors. Our proposed method process datastreams in an incremental way with little computational cost, and hence it is suitable to detect events in an online and real-time manner. We experimentally analyze the detection performance of the proposed coupled Bayesian RPCA using real data from loop detectors on the Minnesota I-494. We find that our method significantly improves the detection accuracy when compared with the traditional PCA and non-coupled Bayesian RPCA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ITSC.2013.6728263
ITSC
Keywords
Field
DocType
principal component analysis,road traffic control,sensor fusion,time series,minnesota i-494,rpca approach,loop detectors,multivariable data streams,road traffic conditions,road traffic event detection,road traffic sensors,route planning,spatio-temporal coupled bayesian robust principal component analysis,traffic conditions,transportation infrastructure management,bayes theorem,data fusion
Data mining,Traffic flow,Road traffic control,Simulation,Floating car data,Sensor fusion,Robust principal component analysis,Traffic congestion reconstruction with Kerner's three-phase theory,Engineering,Bayesian probability,Bayes' theorem
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0009
2
0.40
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shiming Yang1132.15
Kalpakis, K.2100.93
Alain Biem328818.64