Title
Knowledge-based trajectory completion from sparse GPS samples.
Abstract
Traffic trajectories collected from GPS-enabled mobile devices or vehicles are widely used in urban planning, traffic management, and location based services. Their performance often relies on having dense trajectories. However, due to the power and bandwidth limitation on these devices, collecting dense trajectory is too costly on a large scale. We show that by exploiting structural regularity in large trajectory data, the complete geometry of trajectories can be inferred from sparse GPS samples without information about the underlying road network - a process called trajectory completion. In this paper, we present a knowledge-based approach for completing traffic trajectories. Our method extracts a network of road junctions and estimates traffic flows across junctions. GPS samples within each flow cluster are then used to achieve fine-level completion of individual trajectories. Finally, we demonstrate that our method is effective for trajectory completion on both synthesized and real traffic trajectories. On average 72.7% of real trajectories with sampling rate of 60 seconds/sample are completed without map information. Comparing to map matching, over 89% of points on completed trajectories are within 15 meters from the map matched path.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2996913.2996924
SIGSPATIAL/GIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Trajectory completion, junction network, trajectory skeleton
Data mining,Computer vision,Bandwidth limitation,Computer science,Sampling (signal processing),Location-based service,Real-time computing,Mobile device,Artificial intelligence,Global Positioning System,Trajectory,Map matching
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.44
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Li1261.75
Yang Li2261.75
Dimitrios Gunopulos37171715.85
Leonidas J. Guibas4130841262.73