Title
Fréchet Kernel for Trajectory Data Analysis
Abstract
ABSTRACTTrajectory analysis has been a central problem in applications of location tracking systems. Recently, the (discrete) Fréchet distance becomes a popular approach for measuring the similarity of two trajectories because of its high feature extraction capability. Despite its importance, the Fréchet distance has several limitations: (i) sensitive to noise as a trade-off for its high feature extraction capability; and (ii) it cannot be incorporated into machine learning frameworks due to its non-smooth functions. To address these problems, we propose the Fréchet kernel (FRK), which is associated with a smoothed Fréchet distance using a combination of two approximation techniques. FRK can adaptively acquire appropriate extraction capability from trajectories while retaining robustness to noise. Theoretically, we find that FRK has a positive definite property, hence FRK can be incorporated into the kernel method. We also provide an efficient algorithm to calculate FRK. Experimentally, FRK outperforms other methods, including other kernel methods and neural networks, in various noisy real-data classification tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3474717.3483949
Geographic Information Systems
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Koh Takeuchi15911.29
Masaaki Imaizumi222.75
Shunsuke Kanda300.34
Yasuo Tabei400.34
Keisuke Fujii565.56
Ken Yoda600.34
Masakazu Ishihata700.34
Takuya Maekawa832649.93