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Many real-world applications need path planning algorithms to solve tasks in different areas, such as social applications, autonomous cars, and tracking activities. And most importantly motion planning. Although the use of path planning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Janderson Ferreira , Agostinho A. F. Júnior , Yves M. Galvão , Bruno J. T. Fernandes , Pablo Barros

Predicting pedestrian motion trajectories is crucial for path planning and motion control of autonomous vehicles. Accurately forecasting crowd trajectories is challenging due to the uncertain nature of human motions in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yu Liu , Yuexin Zhang , Kunming Li , Yongliang Qiao , Stewart Worrall , You-Fu Li , He Kong

Transportation mode detection is an important topic within GeoAI and transportation research. In this study, we introduce SpeedTransformer, a novel Transformer-based model that relies solely on speed inputs to infer transportation modes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yuandong Zhang , Othmane Echchabi , Tianshu Feng , Wenyi Zhang , Hsuai-Kai Liao , Charles Chang

Effective urban traffic management is vital for sustainable city development, relying on intelligent systems with machine learning tasks such as traffic flow prediction and travel time estimation. Traditional approaches usually focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Chengkai Han , Jingyuan Wang , Yongyao Wang , Xie Yu , Hao Lin , Chao Li , Junjie Wu

Trajectory representation learning plays a pivotal role in supporting various downstream tasks. Traditional methods in order to filter the noise in GPS trajectories tend to focus on routing-based methods used to simplify the trajectories.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zhipeng Ma , Zheyan Tu , Xinhai Chen , Yan Zhang , Deguo Xia , Guyue Zhou , Yilun Chen , Yu Zheng , Jiangtao Gong

Next-location prediction, consisting of forecasting a user's location given their historical trajectories, has important implications in several fields, such as urban planning, geo-marketing, and disease spreading. Several predictors have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Massimiliano Luca , Luca Pappalardo , Bruno Lepri , Gianni Barlacchi

In the classical context of robotic mapping and localization, map matching is typically defined as the task of finding a rigid transformation (i.e., 3DOF rotation/translation on the 2D moving plane) that aligns the query and reference maps…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Kanji Tanaka

Foundation models have driven remarkable progress in text, vision, and video understanding, and are now poised to unlock similar breakthroughs in trajectory modeling. We introduce the GPSMasked Trajectory Transformer (GPS-MTM), a foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Umang Garg , Bowen Zhang , Anantajit Subrahmanya , Chandrakanth Gudavalli , BS Manjunath

The growing use of probe vehicles generates a huge number of GNSS data. Limited by the satellite positioning technology, further improving the accuracy of map-matching is challenging work, especially for low-frequency trajectories. When…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Jie Fang , Xiongwei Wu , Dianchao Lin , Mengyun Xu , Huahua Wu , Xuesong Wu , Ting Bi

A `trajectory' refers to a trace generated by a moving object in geographical spaces, usually represented by of a series of chronologically ordered points, where each point consists of a geo-spatial coordinate set and a timestamp. Rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Seongjin Choi

High-definition (HD) semantic maps are crucial in enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate urban environments. The traditional method of creating offline HD maps involves labor-intensive manual annotation processes, which are not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xuan Xiong , Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

The integration of GNSS data into portable devices has led to the generation of vast amounts of trajectory data, which is crucial for applications such as map-matching. To tackle the limitations of rule-based methods, recent works in deep…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Anjun Gao , Zhenglin Wan , Pingfu Chao , Shunyu Yao

Trajectory data has become a key resource for automated map in-ference due to its low cost, broad coverage, and continuous availability. However, uneven trajectory density often leads to frag-mented roads in sparse areas and redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yudong Shen , Wenyu Wu , Jiali Mao , Yixiao Tong , Guoping Liu , Chaoya Wang

Transport mode detection is a classification problem aiming to design an algorithm that can infer the transport mode of a user given multimodal signals (GPS and/or inertial sensors). It has many applications, such as carbon footprint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Hugues Moreau , Andréa Vassilev , Liming Chen

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

This paper explores potential improvements to the Spatial-Temporal Matching algorithm for aligning the GPS trajectories to road networks. While this algorithm is effective, it presents some limitations in computational efficiency and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Ali Yousefian , Arianna Burzacchi , Simone Vantini

Despite their stellar performance on a wide range of tasks, including in-context tasks only revealed during inference, vanilla transformers and variants trained for next-token predictions (a) do not learn an explicit world model of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Antoine Dedieu , Wolfgang Lehrach , Guangyao Zhou , Dileep George , Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla

In autonomous driving, accurately interpreting the movements of other road users and leveraging this knowledge to forecast future trajectories is crucial. This is typically achieved through the integration of map data and tracked…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Tobias Demmler , Andreas Tamke , Thao Dang , Karsten Haug , Lars Mikelsons

In this paper, we study the problem of map matching with travel time constraints. Given a sequence of $k$ spatio-temporal measurements and an embedded path graph with travel time costs, the goal is to snap each measurement to a close-by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yannick Bosch , Sabine Storandt

Motion prediction for traffic participants is essential for a safe and robust automated driving system, especially in cluttered urban environments. However, it is highly challenging due to the complex road topology as well as the uncertain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Lu Zhang , Peiliang Li , Jing Chen , Shaojie Shen