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We define several new models for how to define anomalous regions among enormous sets of trajectories. These are based on spatial scan statistics, and identify a geometric region which captures a subset of trajectories which are…

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In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-30 Valentina Marin , Carlos Molinero , Elsa Arcaute

Trajectories can be regarded as time-series of coordinates, typically arising from motile objects. Methods for trajectory classification are particularly important to detect different movement patterns, while methods for regression to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Mariaclaudia Nicolai , Raffaella Fiamma Cabini , Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli

A commonly-used representation for motion prediction of actors is a sequence of waypoints (comprising positions and orientations) for each actor at discrete future time-points. While this approach is simple and flexible, it can exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhaoen Su , Chao Wang , Henggang Cui , Nemanja Djuric , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , David Bradley

Shannon entropy is widely used to quantify the uncertainty of discrete random variables. But when normalized to the unit interval, as is often done in practice, it no longer conveys the alphabet sizes of the random variables being studied.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 John Çamkıran

The task of detecting anomalous data patterns is as important in practical applications as challenging. In the context of spatial data, recognition of unexpected trajectories brings additional difficulties, such as high dimensionality and…

We show that transport in the presence of entropic barriers exhibits peculiar characteristics which makes it distinctly different from that occurring through energy barriers. The constrained dynamics yields a scaling regime for the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reguera , G. Schmid , P. S. Burada , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

Entropy production is a universal measure of irreversibility and energy dissipation in physical, chemical, and biological systems operating far from equilibrium. However, quantifying and spatiotemporally localising it in complex processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan

Trajectory analysis is essential in many applications. In this paper, we address the problem of representing motion trajectories in a highly informative way, and consequently utilize it for analyzing trajectories. Our approach first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Weiyao Lin , Yang Zhou , Hongteng Xu , Junchi Yan , Mingliang Xu , Jianxin Wu , Zicheng Liu

The fractional order generalization of Shannon entropy proposed by Ubriaco has been studied for discrete distributions. In the current paper, we conduct a detailed study of the continuous analogue of this entropy termed as fractional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Poulami Paul , Chancal Kundu

The experiments conducted by various scientific groups indicate that, in dense two-dimensional systems of elongated particles subjected to vibration, the pattern formation is possible. Computer simulations have evidenced that the random…

The increasing availability of experimental data has intensified interest in calibrating stochastic models, raising fundamental questions about parameter identifiability. Structural identifiability determines whether parameters can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Arianna Ceccarelli , Alexander P. Browning , Ruth E. Baker

An approach for real-time network monitoring in terms of numerical time-dependant functions of protocol parameters is suggested. Applying complex systems theory for information f{l}ow analysis of networks, the information traffic is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Joseph E. Johnson

In many high-impact applications, it is important to ensure the quality of output of a machine learning algorithm as well as its reliability in comparison with the complexity of the algorithm used. In this paper, we have initiated a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Katarina Doctor , Tong Mao , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

Trajectory segmentation is the process of subdividing a trajectory into parts either by grouping points similar with respect to some measure of interest, or by minimizing a global objective function. Here we present a novel online algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Yehezkel S. Resheff

We study the asymptotic behavior of the number of paths of length $N$ on several classes of infinite graphs with a single special vertex. This vertex can work as an entropic trap for the path, i.e. under certain conditions the dominant part…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 S. K. Nechaev , M. V. Tamm , O. V. Valba

According to E.T. Jaynes and E.P. Wigner, entropy is an anthropomorphic concept in the sense that in a physical system correspond many thermodynamic systems. The physical system can be examined from many points of view each time examining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Panteleimon Rodis

In the paper the memory effect in the system consisting from a trajectory of process and an environment is considered. The environment is presented by scalar potential and noise. The evolution of system is interpreted as process of the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Maxim Budaev

A powerful tool is developed for the characterization of chaotic signals. The approach is based on the symbolic encoding of time series (according to their ordinal patterns) combined with the ensuing characterization of the corresponding…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-12 Antonio Politi

Chains are vector-valued signals sampling a curve. They are important to motion signal processing and to many scientific applications including location sensors. We propose a novel measure of smoothness for chains curves by generalizing the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Kucerovsky , Daniel Lemire