Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data

There is an immense amount of location data being collected today from smartphone users by various service providers. Due to bandwidth and battery-life considerations, smartphone locations are generally sampled at sparse intervals using energy-efficient, but inaccurate, alternatives to the power-hun...

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Main Authors: Jagadeesh, George Rosario, Srikanthan, Thambipillai
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1457692021-01-07T06:42:07Z Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data Jagadeesh, George Rosario Srikanthan, Thambipillai School of Computer Science and Engineering 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Engineering::Computer science and engineering Hidden Markov Models Runtime There is an immense amount of location data being collected today from smartphone users by various service providers. Due to bandwidth and battery-life considerations, smartphone locations are generally sampled at sparse intervals using energy-efficient, but inaccurate, alternatives to the power-hungry Global Positioning System (GPS). If sparse sequences of coarse location data obtained from mobile users can be accurately map-matched to travel paths on the road network, then this data can be effectively used for several traffic-related applications. Unlike most other map-matching methods in the literature, we, in this paper, focus on the problem of map-matching sparse and noisy non-GPS smartphone location data. We adopt the widely-followed Hidden Markov Model (HMM) approach and propose new probabilistic models for the observation and transition probabilities tailored towards the type of data being considered. Our map-matching method has been evaluated using ground-truth labelled non-GPS location data collected from real drives. Tests show that the accuracy of the proposed method is about 12% more than that of a comparable HMM-based method from the literature. Our results also show that the runtime and latency of the proposed method can be kept within reasonable bounds using simple techniques. Accepted version 2021-01-07T06:42:07Z 2021-01-07T06:42:07Z 2015 Conference Paper Jagadeesh, G. R., & Srikanthan, T. (2015). Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 812-817. doi:10.1109/ITSC.2015.137 978-1-4673-6596-3 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145769 10.1109/ITSC.2015.137 812 817 en © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2015.137 application/pdf
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Jagadeesh, George Rosario
Srikanthan, Thambipillai
Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
description There is an immense amount of location data being collected today from smartphone users by various service providers. Due to bandwidth and battery-life considerations, smartphone locations are generally sampled at sparse intervals using energy-efficient, but inaccurate, alternatives to the power-hungry Global Positioning System (GPS). If sparse sequences of coarse location data obtained from mobile users can be accurately map-matched to travel paths on the road network, then this data can be effectively used for several traffic-related applications. Unlike most other map-matching methods in the literature, we, in this paper, focus on the problem of map-matching sparse and noisy non-GPS smartphone location data. We adopt the widely-followed Hidden Markov Model (HMM) approach and propose new probabilistic models for the observation and transition probabilities tailored towards the type of data being considered. Our map-matching method has been evaluated using ground-truth labelled non-GPS location data collected from real drives. Tests show that the accuracy of the proposed method is about 12% more than that of a comparable HMM-based method from the literature. Our results also show that the runtime and latency of the proposed method can be kept within reasonable bounds using simple techniques.
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title Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
title_short Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
title_full Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
title_fullStr Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
title_full_unstemmed Probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
title_sort probabilistic map matching of sparse and noisy smartphone location data
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