Summary of Transferable Unsupervised Outlier Detection Framework For Human Semantic Trajectories, by Zheng Zhang et al.
Transferable Unsupervised Outlier Detection Framework for Human Semantic Trajectories
by Zheng Zhang, Hossein Amiri, Dazhou Yu, Yuntong Hu, Liang Zhao, Andreas Zufle
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel framework called Transferable Outlier Detection for Human Semantic Trajectories (TOD4Traj) is proposed to identify outlier behaviors in spatial-temporal data enriched with textual information. Traditional outlier detection methods rely on heuristic rules, which can be limited and require domain knowledge. TOD4Traj addresses this issue by introducing a modality feature unification module to align diverse data representations, allowing for the integration of multi-modal information. A contrastive learning module is also proposed to identify regular mobility patterns temporally and across populations. Experimental results show that TOD4Traj outperforms existing models in detecting human trajectory outliers across various datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TOD4Traj helps find unusual behaviors in data about people’s movements, like trips or activities. This can be important for healthcare, social security, and city planning. The usual way to detect unusual patterns is by using rules that require knowing the field, but this limits its ability to find new unusual patterns. TOD4Traj solves this problem by bringing together different types of data, such as location, time, and text information. It does this by aligning different data features and learning what regular patterns are for individuals and groups. The results show that TOD4Traj is better at finding unusual patterns than existing methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Multi modal » Outlier detection
