Curve-Based Representation of Moving Object Trajectories

  • Authors:
  • Byunggu Yu;Seon Ho Kim;Thomas Bailey;Ruben Gamboa

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wyoming;University of Denver;University of Wyoming;University of Wyoming

  • Venue:
  • IDEAS '04 Proceedings of the International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In recent years, many emerging database applications deal with continuously moving data objects 驴 each data object moves continuously and frequently reports its current location, moving direction, and speed to the database server. A database server for these applications keeps track of the trajectories of individual moving objects and processes queries referring to the past or future trajectories. Related techniques view a moving object trajectory as a sequence of connected line segments. However, most natural moving objects, such as airplanes, vessels, and vehicles, draw a smooth trajectory with no angles. This paper presents our curve-based trajectory representation models. The presented results show that the curve-based models provide much more accurate trajectories than the line-based models when we have the same amount of data (same number of reported points). In other words, the curve-based models require a smaller amount of data while providing the same accuracy in trajectory representation.