Detecting single file movement

  • Authors:
  • K. Buchin;M. Buchin;J. Gudmundsson

  • Affiliations:
  • Utrecht University, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, The Netherlands;NICTA, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the problem of detecting a single file behavior in a set of trajectories. A group of entities is moving in single file if they are following each other, one behind the other. This movement pattern occurs often, among animals, humans, and vehicles. It is challenging to detect because it does not have a fixed layout. In this paper we first model the notion of following behind, on which we base our definition of single file. We present efficient algorithms for detecting following behind and single file behaviors. We test and evaluate these algorithms on real and generated test data.