Summary of Vetrass: Vehicle Trajectory Similarity Search Through Graph Modeling and Representation Learning, by Ming Cheng et al.
VeTraSS: Vehicle Trajectory Similarity Search Through Graph Modeling and Representation Learning
by Ming Cheng, Bowen Zhang, Ziyu Wang, Ziyi Zhou, Weiqi Feng, Yi Lyu, Xingjian Diao
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed VeTraSS pipeline is an end-to-end solution for vehicle trajectory similarity search, which plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. The existing sequence-processing algorithms and RNNs suffer from complex architectures and heavy training costs. GNNs are feasible considering the intricate connections between trajectories, but most methods ignore unique characteristics of vehicle trajectory data by directly using mathematical graph structures. VeTraSS models original trajectory data into multi-scale graphs and generates comprehensive embeddings through a novel attention-based GNN. The learned embeddings can be used for searching similar vehicle trajectories. Experiments on the Porto and Geolife datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of VeTraSS, outperforming existing work and reaching state-of-the-art. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary VeTraSS is a new way to help self-driving cars navigate safely. Right now, finding similar car paths is a hard problem because most methods don’t understand what makes those paths unique. VeTraSS solves this by creating special graphs that show how different parts of the path are connected. This helps the system learn what makes certain paths similar or different. The results on two big datasets show that VeTraSS works better than other approaches and could be used in real-world self-driving cars. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Gnn
