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Due to the sparse distribution of road video surveillance cameras, precise trajectory tracking for hit-and-run vehicles remains a challenging task. Previous research on vehicle trajectory recovery mostly focuses on recovering trajectory with low-sampling-rate GPS coordinates by retrieving road traffic flow patterns from collected GPS information. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of them...
Lane estimation plays a central role for Driver Assistance Systems, therefore many approaches have been proposed to measure its performance. However, no commonly agreed metric exists. In this work, we first present a detailed survey of the current measures. Most of them apply pixel-level benchmarks on camera images and require a time-consuming and fault-prone labeling process. Moreover, these metrics...
Data or measurement-to-track association is an integral and expensive part of any solution performing multi-target multi-sensor Cooperative Localization (CL) for better state estimation. Various performance evaluations have been performed between various state-of-the-art solutions, but they have been often limited within same family of algorithms. However, there exist solutions which avoid the task...
Today geolocation data is used extensively in multiple applications and devices. GPS trajectory data can reveal political, religious affiliations, personal habits, shopping preferences etc. It threatens large number of users who use location-based services on their devices, because they are afraid of revealing their locations and concerned about being tracked. Multiple approaches have been proposed...
With over 1 billion vehicles in operation over the world1 and steadily growing cities, intelligent traffic management has become inevitable in order to preserve quality of life as we know it. Analyzing and predicting the movement behavior of traffic participants helps providing forward-looking solutions and plays a major role in intelligent traffic systems (ITS), in the field of location and handoff...
Road transportation is one of the main source of carbon dioxide emissions, and it is imperative to estimate the carbon dioxide contribution of road transportation precisely, so that carbon dioxide emission-reduction measures can be designed and implemented appropriately. Microscopic emission models and GPS trajectories are widely used in estimating carbon dioxide emissions. Microscopic emission models...
This paper presents a localization system for objects tagged with UHF-RFID passive tags, where the reader is attached to a drone. The system implements the phase-based SARFID technique to locate static tags with respect to a UHF-RFID reader attached to a commercial drone. The reader antenna trajectory is achieved through a Global Positioning System. The bi-dimensional tag position is estimated with...
An increasing number of people use smartphone applications to plan their trips. Unfortunately, for various reasons, bus trips suggested by such applications are not as reliable as other trip types (e.g. by car, on foot, or by bicycle), which can result in excessive waiting time, or even the need to revise a planned trip. Traditional punctuality-based bus service reliability metrics do not capture...
Understanding human mobility patterns is of great importance for planning urban and extra-urban spaces and communication infrastructures. The omnipresence of mobile telephony in today's society opens new avenues of discovering the patterns of human mobility by means of analyzing cellular network data. Of particular interest is analyzing passively collected Network Events (NEs) due to their scalability...
The vehicle trajectory dataset is often contaminated by GPS errors and low sampling rate. Consequently, it is important to cleanse the trajectory dataset before it can be used for any research or application. In this paper, we propose a HMM based system to cleanse and rebuild the missing traveling routes of vehicles in a given trajectory dataset. Considering the candidates of each entry as variables,...
A number of geolocation-based DTN (Delay Tolerant Networking) routing protocols have been shown to perform well in selected simulation and mobility scenarios. However, the suitability of these mechanisms for widely-available inexpensive GPS hardware has not been evaluated. In this brief paper we evaluate the effect of GPS positional error on our own and previously existing geographic routing protocols.
The abundance of various embedded sensors on mobile devices results in huge amount of data generation, storage requirement and also causes the encroachment into the personal privacy. But for the development of new applications or making organizational decisions, the trajectory data is to be published. Moving objects trajectory publication may result in the serious violation and a threat to the individual's...
In this paper absolute dispersion of GPS-equipped drifters of the MREA14 campaign in the Mar Grande Basin of Taranto was investigated. Velocity variance and integral time scale were computed. Different procedures to infer the mean velocity from drifter data were examined. A comparison within experimental and theoretical values of the displacement variance is introduced pointing out limits and requirements...
The PID control technique which is improved by linear extended state observer (LESO) is applied to the design of the flight control system for parafoils with Global Position System(GPS). Firstly, in this paper, the nonlinear dynamics model of the parafoil system is outlined. Then, method of guidance and the theory of LESO is presented in detail. Next, the control system using improved PID control...
An improved control algorithm rapidly predicting the correction point of trajectory correction projectiles is presented in this paper. Known on-line GPS data, the algorithm is completed by two steps to accurately compute the activated moment of correction mechanism, namely a damper. Firstly, polynomial fitting method is utilized to determine the relation between correction distance and the activated...
With the the exponential growth of location aware devices, analysis of human movements has been the subject of several studies. Problems related to urban mobility such as vehicle congestion are serious concern in cities. Carpooling is one of the solutions to soften congestion problem. This paper presents a novel matching method for carpooling. Trajectories are firstly modeled using Neo4j spatial and...
In this paper we present the development of a multi-rotor system for autonomous outdoor flights in an unknown environment. We propose a modular framework scheme to perform the functions of guidance, navigation and control using the sensor measurements. The localization and mapping tasks are performed simultaneously by the guidance module through an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). The estimated map allows...
Each year, millions of motor vehicle traffic accidents all over the world cause a large number of fatalities, injuries and significant material loss. Automated Driving (AD) has potential to drastically reduce such accidents. In this work, we focus on the technical challenges that arise from AD in urban environments. We present the overall architecture of an AD system and describe in detail the perception...
The potential of micro-UAV-based radar imaging is far from being exploited, though radar sensors having budgets compatible with micro-UAV are increasingly available. As a contribution to this topic, this paper discusses the relation between UAV dynamics and navigation, and radar processing, and presents a proof-of-concept ground imaging experiment in which a commercial hexacopter has been equipped...
In express delivery, couriers will generate a mass of trajectory logs when delivering shipments. To analyze these logs is of great value for the promotion of express delivery service. For any research based on trajectory data, map-matching plays an important role, so in this article, we design a map-matching service specially for courier trajectories. As far as we know, existing map-matching algorithms...
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