Sequential pattern mining of geo-tagged photos with an arbitrary regions-of-interest detection method

  • Authors:
  • Guochen Cai;Chihiro Hio;Luke Bermingham;Kyungmi Lee;Ickjai Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Geo-tagged photos leave trails of movement that form trajectories. Regions-of-interest detection identifies interesting hot spots where many trajectories visit and large geo-tagged photos are uploaded. Extraction of exact shapes of regions-of-interest is a key step to understanding these trajectories and mining sequential trajectory patterns. This article introduces an efficient and effective grid-based regions-of-interest detection method that is linear to the number of grid cells, and is able to detect arbitrary shapes of regions-of-interest. The proposed algorithm is combined with sequential pattern mining to reveal sequential trajectory patterns. Experimental results reveal quality regions-of-interest and promising sequential trajectory patterns that demonstrate the benefits of our algorithm.