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Large-scale human mobility data is a key resource in data-driven policy making and across many scientific fields. Most recently, mobility data was extensively used during the COVID-19 pandemic to study the effects of governmental policies…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-24 Frank Schlosser , Vedran Sekara , Dirk Brockmann , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

We introduce a novel statistical framework for analyzing the GPS data of a single individual. Our approach models daily GPS observations as noisy measurements of an underlying random trajectory, enabling the definition of meaningful…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-08 Haoyang Wu , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

Satellite-based positioning system such as GPS often suffers from large amount of noise that degrades the positioning accuracy dramatically especially in real-time applications. In this work, we consider a data-mining approach to enhance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-05 Ming Lin , Xiaomin Song , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Liang Sun , Shenghuo Zhu , Rong Jin

It is shown that even in the case of a negligibly small change in the gradient of the gravitational field of the mass source in the axial direction, the dependence of this gradient in the radial direction leads to a systematic error in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 B. Dubetsky

Accurate distance estimation from monocular cameras is essential for intelligent monitoring systems. In many deployments, image coordinates are mapped to ground positions using planar homographies initialized by manual selection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mateusz Szulc , Marcin Iwanowski

With the significantly improved sensitivity and a wider frequency band, the next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are anticipated to detect $\sim 10^5$ GW signals per year with durations from hours to days, leading to inevitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Ziming Wang , Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

The acquisition of the signal from the satellite based positioning systems, such as GPS, Galileo, and Compass, encounters challenges in the urban streets, indoor. For improving the acquisition performance, the data accumulation is usually…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Pengda Wong

Accurate information about the location and orientation of a camera in mobile devices is central to the utilization of location-based services (LBS). Most of such mobile devices rely on GPS data but this data is subject to inaccuracy due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Mahdi Salarian

Learning-based methods to solve dense 3D vision problems typically train on 3D sensor data. The respectively used principle of measuring distances provides advantages and drawbacks. These are typically not compared nor discussed in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 HyunJun Jung , Patrick Ruhkamp , Guangyao Zhai , Nikolas Brasch , Yitong Li , Yannick Verdie , Jifei Song , Yiren Zhou , Anil Armagan , Slobodan Ilic , Ales Leonardis , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

External factors, including urban canyons and adversarial interference, can lead to Global Positioning System (GPS) inaccuracies that vary as a function of the position in the environment. This study addresses the challenge of estimating a…

GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality of location sampling across time. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Sarah A. Sanchez , Hamish Gibbs , Takahiro Yabe , Daniel T. O'Brien , Esteban Moro

The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mobility patterns and pedestrians' micro-motives in relation to…

The distance standard deviation, which arises in distance correlation analysis of multivariate data, is studied as a measure of spread. The asymptotic distribution of the empirical distance standard deviation is derived under the assumption…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Dominic Edelmann , Donald Richards , Daniel Vogel

Today, the Global Navigation Satellite Systems, used as global positioning systems, are the GPS and the GLONASS. They are based on a Newtonian model and hence they are only operative when several relativistic effects are taken into account.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. -F. Pascual-Sanchez

One of the greatest concerns related to the popularity of GPS-enabled devices and applications is the increasing availability of the personal location information generated by them and shared with application and service providers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Luca Rossi , James Walker , Mirco Musolesi

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are nowadays intensively used in Sport Science as they permit to capture the space-time trajectories of players, with the aim to infer useful information to coaches in addition to traditional statistics. In…

Applications · Statistics 2017-07-05 Rodolfo Metulini , Marica Manisera , Paola Zuccolotto

This paper is related to our previous works [1][2] on the error estimate of the averaging technique, for systems with one fast angular variable. In the cited references, a general method (of mixed analytical and numerical type) has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Carlo Morosi , Livio Pizzocchero

The proliferation of smartphones has accelerated mobility studies by largely increasing the type and volume of mobility data available. One such source of mobility data is from GPS technology, which is becoming increasingly common and helps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zann Koh , Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Ran Liu , Keng Hua Chong , Chau Yuen

Understanding the dynamics of complex systems is a central task in many different areas ranging form biology via epidemics to economics and engineering. Unexpected behaviour of dynamic systems or even systems failure is sometimes difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Dominik Kahl , Andreas Weber , Maik Kschischo

Many aspects of life are associated with places of human mobility patterns and nowadays we are facing an increase in the pervasiveness of mobile devices these individuals carry. Positioning technologies that serve these devices such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thiago Andrade , Brais Cancela , João Gama