Map-Informed Trajectory Recovery With Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Autoencoder

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Author(s)

  • Yongchao Ye
  • Ao Wang
  • Adnan Zeb
  • Shiyao Zhang
  • James Jianqiao Yu

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Original languageEnglish
Journal / PublicationIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Online published31 Oct 2024
Publication statusOnline published - 31 Oct 2024

Abstract

The recovery of coarsely sampled trajectories considering the road network topology characteristics is a crucial task for many downstream applications in intelligent transportation systems. Existing approaches in this domain primarily focus on extracting spatio-temporal correlations for the observed trajectory points but neglect the critical role of road network topology characteristics in making the recovery results more accurate and realistic. In addition, too many road segments in cities undermine the model inference performance. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Map-informed Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Autoencoder, which follows an encoder-decoder architecture for trajectory recovery. Specifically, we utilize a pre-trained attributed network embedding module to incorporate the road segment characteristics into the input data to make it easier for the model to extract the spatio-temporal dependencies from coarse trajectories. Furthermore, we construct a novel adaptive mask inference module that contains a distance-based mask matrix and a learnable adaptive mask matrix to assist the model in making segment inferences by weighting each candidate segment adaptively in the recovery process. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, we conduct a series of comprehensive case studies on two representative real-world trajectory datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches. © 2000-2011 IEEE.

Research Area(s)

  • deep learning, missing data, road network, spatio-temporal modeling, Trajectory recovery