An efficient outlying trajectories mining approach based on relative distance

作者：Liu, Liangxu; Qiao, Shaojie^*; Zhang, Yongping; Hu, JinSong

来源：International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2012, 26(10): 1789-1810.

DOI：10.1080/13658816.2012.654792

• outlying trajectories mining
• relative distance
• dissimilarity
• trajectory databases

With a huge volume of trajectories being collected and stored in databases, more and more researchers try to discover outlying trajectories from trajectory databases. In this article, we propose a novel framework called relative distance-based trajectory outliers detection (RTOD). In RTOD, we first employed relative distances to measure the dissimilarity between trajectory segments, and then formally defined the outlying trajectories based on distance measures. In order to improve the time performance, we proposed an optimization method that employs R-tree and local feature correlation matrix to eliminate unrelated trajectory segments. Finally, we conducted extensive experiments to estimate the advantages of the proposed approach. The experimental results show that our proposed approach is more efficient and effective at identifying outlying trajectories than existing algorithms. Particularly, we analyzed the effect of each parameter in theory.

• 出版日期2012
• 单位西南交通大学; 宁波工程学院