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Human trajectory anomaly detection has become increasingly important across a wide range of applications, including security surveillance and public health. However, existing trajectory anomaly detection methods are primarily focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yueyang Liu , Lance Kennedy , Hossein Amiri , Andreas Züfle

Rapid urbanization places increasing stress on already burdened transportation systems, resulting in delays and poor levels of service. Billions of spatiotemporal call detail records (CDRs) collected from mobile devices create new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Jameson L. Toole , Serdar Colak , Fahad Alhasoun , Alexandre Evsukoff , Marta C. Gonzalez

Detecting anomalies in datasets is a longstanding problem in machine learning. In this context, anomalies are defined as a sample that significantly deviates from the remaining data. Meanwhile, optimal transport (OT) is a field of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Adel El Habazi , Fred Ngole Mboula

We propose a hybrid approach to temporal anomaly detection in access data of users to databases --- or more generally, any kind of subject-object co-occurrence data. We consider a high-dimensional setting that also requires fast computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Eyal Gutflaish , Aryeh Kontorovich , Sivan Sabato , Ofer Biller , Oded Sofer

Quantification of the overall characteristics of urban mobility using coarse-grained methods is crucial for urban management, planning and sustainable development. Although some recent studies have provided quantification methods for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-03 Hao Wang , Pengjun Zhao , Xiao-Yong Yan

In the backbone of large-scale networks, origin-to-destination (OD) traffic flows experience abrupt unusual changes known as traffic volume anomalies, which can result in congestion and limit the extent to which end-user quality of service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Morteza Mardani , Gonzalo Mateos , Georgios B. Giannakis

Event detection has been an important task in transportation, whose task is to detect points in time when large events disrupts a large portion of the urban traffic network. Travel information {Origin-Destination} (OD) matrix data by map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yue Hu , Ao Qu , Dan Work

Urban traffic anomalies, such as collisions and disruptions, threaten the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of transportation systems. In this paper, we present a simulation-based framework for modeling, detecting, and predicting such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Tony Kinchen , Ting Bai , Nishanth Venkatesh S. , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Mobile networks possess information about the users as well as the network. Such information is useful for making the network end-to-end visible and intelligent. Big data analytics can efficiently analyze user and network information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kashif Sultan , Hazrat Ali , Zhongshan Zhang

Anomaly detection from a driver's perspective when driving is important to autonomous vehicles. As a part of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), it can remind the driver about dangers timely. Compared with traditional studied scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Yuan Yuan , Dong Wang , Qi Wang

Understanding mobile traffic patterns of large scale cellular towers in urban environment is extremely valuable for Internet service providers, mobile users, and government managers of modern metropolis. This paper aims at extracting and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Huandong Wang , Fengli Xu , Yong Li , Pengyu Zhang , Depeng Jin

Owing to the expeditious growth in the information and communication technologies, smart cities have raised the expectations in terms of efficient functioning and management. One key aspect of residents' daily comfort is assured through…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Amr S. El-Wakeel , Aboelmagd Noureldin , Hossam S. Hassanein , Nizar Zorba

Agile localization of anomalous events plays a pivotal role in enhancing the overall reliability of the grid and avoiding cascading failures. This is especially of paramount significance in the large-scale grids due to their geographical…

Applications · Statistics 2017-02-07 Javad Heydari , Ali Tajer

Commute Time Distance (CTD) is a random walk based metric on graphs. CTD has found widespread applications in many domains including personalized search, collaborative filtering and making search engines robust against manipulation. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa , Sanjay Chawla

Detecting anomalies in human mobility is essential for applications such as public safety and urban planning. While traditional anomaly detection methods primarily focus on individual movement patterns (e.g., a child should stay at home at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Haomin Wen , Shurui Cao , Leman Akoglu

Time-stamp aware anomaly detection in traffic videos is an essential task for the advancement of the intelligent transportation system. Anomaly detection in videos is a challenging problem due to sparse occurrence of anomalous events,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Kuldeep Marotirao Biradar , Ayushi Gupta , Murari Mandal , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

This study aims to improve transportation safety, especially traffic safety. Road damage anomalies such as potholes and cracks have emerged as a significant and recurring cause for accidents. To tackle this problem and improve road safety,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ali Almakhluk , Uthman Baroudi , Yasser El-Alfy

Congestion and extreme events in transportation networks are emergent phenomena with significant socio-economic implications. In this work, we study congestion and extreme event properties on real urban street (planar) networks drawn from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Ajay Agarwal , M. S. Santhanam

Anomalies in the domain of autonomous driving are a major hindrance to the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we focus on high-resolution camera data from urban scenes that include anomalies of various types and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Daniel Bogdoll , Svetlana Pavlitska , Simon Klaus , J. Marius Zöllner

Estimating temporal patterns in travel times along road segments in urban settings is of central importance to traffic engineers and city planners. In this work, we propose a methodology to leverage coarse-grained and aggregated travel time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-17 Kelsey Maass , Arun V Sathanur , Arif Khan , Robert Rallo