Efficient Detection of Patterns in 2D Trajectories of Moving Points

  • Authors:
  • Joachim Gudmundsson;Marc Kreveld;Bettina Speckmann

  • Affiliations:
  • NICTA, Sydney, Australia;Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Geoinformatica
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Moving point object data can be analyzed through the discovery of patterns in trajectories. We consider the computational efficiency of detecting four such spatio-temporal patterns, namely flock, leadership, convergence, and encounter, as defined by Laube et al., Finding REMO--detecting relative motion patterns in geospatial lifelines, 201---214, (2004). These patterns are large enough subgroups of the moving point objects that exhibit similar movement in the sense of direction, heading for the same location, and/or proximity. By the use of techniques from computational geometry, including approximation algorithms, we improve the running time bounds of existing algorithms to detect these patterns.