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Generating high-fidelity synthetic GPS trajectories is increasingly important for applications in transportation, urban planning, and what-if scenario simulation, especially as privacy concerns limit access to real-world mobility data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wilson Wongso , Lihuan Li , Arian Prabowo , Xiachong Lin , Baiyu Chen , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for autonomous driving trajectory generation by harnessing the complementary strengths of diffusion probabilistic models (a.k.a., diffusion models) and transformers. Our proposed framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen Yang , Yangfan He , Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Dong Chen , Jianhui Wang , Tianyu Shi , Arsalan Heydarian , Pei Liu

Simulation of autonomous vehicle systems requires that simulated traffic participants exhibit diverse and realistic behaviors. The use of prerecorded real-world traffic scenarios in simulation ensures realism but the rarity of safety…

Evaluating autonomous vehicles with controllability enables scalable testing in counterfactual or structured settings, enhancing both efficiency and safety. We introduce LangTraj, a language-conditioned scene-diffusion model that simulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei-Jer Chang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Manmohan Chandraker , Francesco Pittaluga

The increasing use of GPS-enabled devices has generated a large amount of trajectory data. These data offer us vital insights to understand the movements of individuals and populations, benefiting a broad range of applications from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Nana Wang , Mohan Kankanhalli

In the real world, trajectory data is often sparse and incomplete due to low collection frequencies or limited device coverage. Trajectory recovery aims to recover these missing trajectory points, making the trajectories denser and more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qingyue Long , Can Rong , Huandong Wang , Shaw Rajib , Yong Li

Traffic forecasting approaches are critical to developing adaptive strategies for mobility. Traffic patterns have complex spatial and temporal dependencies that make accurate forecasting on large highway networks a challenging task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Tanwi Mallick , Prasanna Balaprakash , Eric Rask , Jane Macfarlane

Spatiotemporal forecasting has various applications in neuroscience, climate and transportation domain. Traffic forecasting is one canonical example of such learning task. The task is challenging due to (1) complex spatial dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Yaguang Li , Rose Yu , Cyrus Shahabi , Yan Liu

Generating safe and reliable trajectories for autonomous vehicles in long-tail scenarios remains a significant challenge, particularly for high-lateral-acceleration maneuvers such as sharp turns, which represent critical safety situations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xuemei Yao , Xiao Yang , Jianbin Sun , Liuwei Xie , Xuebin Shao , Xiyu Fang , Hang Su , Kewei Yang

Pavement defect detection faces critical challenges including limited annotated data, domain shift between training and deployment environments, and high variability in defect appearances across different road conditions. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Muhammad Aqeel , Kidus Dagnaw Bellete , Francesco Setti

Generating realistic and diverse road scenarios is essential for autonomous vehicle testing and validation. Nevertheless, owing to the complexity and variability of real-world road environments, creating authentic and varied scenarios for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Junjie Zhou , Lin Wang , Qiang Meng , Xiaofan Wang

Diffusion models have shown strong competitiveness in offline reinforcement learning tasks by formulating decision-making as sequential generation. However, the practicality of these methods is limited due to the lengthy inference processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Renming Huang , Yunqiang Pei , Guoqing Wang , Yangming Zhang , Yang Yang , Peng Wang , Hengtao Shen

Highway traffic modeling and forecasting approaches are critical for intelligent transportation systems. Recently, deep-learning-based traffic forecasting methods have emerged as state of the art for a wide range of traffic forecasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Tanwi Mallick , Prasanna Balaprakash , Eric Rask , Jane Macfarlane

High-quality GPS trajectories are essential for location-based web services and smart city applications, including navigation, ride-sharing and delivery. However, due to low sampling rates and limited infrastructure coverage during data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jinming Wang , Hai Wang , Hongkai Wen , Geyong Min , Man Luo

Trajectory generation has recently drawn growing interest in privacy-preserving urban mobility studies and location-based service applications. Although many studies have used deep learning or generative AI methods to model trajectories and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yuanbo Tang , Yan Tang , Zixuan Zhang , Zihui Zhao , Yang Li

Trajectory data has the potential to greatly benefit a wide-range of real-world applications, such as tracking the spread of the disease through people's movement patterns and providing personalized location-based services based on travel…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yuntao Du , Yujia Hu , Zhikun Zhang , Ziquan Fang , Lu Chen , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

This work introduces TrajDiffuser, a compositional diffusion-based flexible and concurrent trajectory generator for 6 degrees of freedom powered descent guidance. TrajDiffuser is a statistical model that learns the multi-modal distributions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Julia Briden , Yilun Du , Enrico M. Zucchelli , Richard Linares

Using the growing volumes of vehicle trajectory data, it becomes increasingly possible to capture time-varying and uncertain travel costs in a road network, including travel time and fuel consumption. The current paradigm represents a road…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Dai , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen

Given trajectory data, a domain-specific study area, and a user-defined threshold, we aim to find anomalous trajectories indicative of possible GPS spoofing (e.g., fake trajectory). The problem is societally important to curb illegal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arun Sharma , Mingzhou Yang , Majid Farhadloo , Subhankar Ghosh , Bharat Jayaprakash , Shashi Shekhar

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to trajectory generation for autonomous driving, combining the strengths of Diffusion models and Transformers. First, we use the historical trajectory data for efficient preprocessing and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chen Yang , Tianyu Shi