Title
Identifying Movements in Noisy Crowd Analytics Data
Abstract
Privacy-preserved tracking of WiFi-enabled devices such as smartphones offers a highly scalable solution for large-scale crowd movement studies. However, extracting knowledge out of pedestrian-tracking data acquired this way is not simple. This is, generally, due to the inherent inaccuracy of the measurement technique. Segmenting an individual's trajectory data into periods of stops and moves is a fundamental step in analyzing crowds' movement. Such distinctions allow us to answer advanced questions regarding visited locations or even social behavior. Algorithms previously designed for distinguishing movements from stay periods, assume datasets are gathered using GPS, which offers precise positioning. WiFi tracking, however, does not offer such precision. The location of devices can at best be reduced to a large area around the WiFi scanner. In this paper, we study a set of established algorithms for detecting periods of stops and moves from GPS-based datasets and their applicability to WiFi-based data. Consequently, we propose possible improvements to such algorithms considering the inherent characteristics of WiFi tracking data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MDM.2018.00033
2018 19th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
tracking data,trajectory data mining,WiFi tracking,mobility modeling
Crowds,Market segmentation,Computer science,Real-time computing,Global Positioning System,Scanner,Analytics,Bluetooth,Trajectory,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-4134-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristian Chilipirea1186.88
Ciprian Dobre255287.40
Mitra Baratchi3246.24
Maarten van Steen42808233.34