Summary of Trajectory Representation Learning on Road Networks and Grids with Spatio-temporal Dynamics, by Stefan Schestakov and Simon Gottschalk
Trajectory Representation Learning on Road Networks and Grids with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
by Stefan Schestakov, Simon Gottschalk
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Trajectory representation learning is a crucial task in smart city and urban planning applications, enabling the utilization of vehicle movement data for tasks such as trajectory similarity computation or travel time estimation. Existing methods either rely on grid-based or road-based representations, which can lose information contained in the other modality. Moreover, these methods overlook dynamic traffic patterns, relying on static road network features instead. To address this limitation, we propose TIGR, a novel model that integrates grid and road network modalities while incorporating spatio-temporal dynamics to learn rich, general-purpose representations of trajectories. We evaluate TIGR on two real-world datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness in substantially outperforming state-of-the-art methods by up to 43.22% for trajectory similarity, up to 16.65% for travel time estimation, and up to 10.16% for destination prediction. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine being able to understand the movement patterns of vehicles in cities using just a few numbers! This is called “trajectory representation learning” and it’s super important for things like planning traffic flow or estimating travel times. Right now, there are some problems with how we do this, because we’re only looking at one type of data (like roads) and not taking into account the changing patterns of traffic over time. To fix this, scientists have created a new model called TIGR that combines two types of data (roads and grids) to learn more about where vehicles are going. They tested this on real city data and it worked really well, beating other methods by up to 43%! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Representation learning
