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The wide spread of location-based social networks brings about a huge volume of user check-in data, which facilitates the recommendation of points of interest (POIs). Recent advances on distributed representation shed light on learning low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Bei Liu , Tieyun Qian , Bing Liu , Liang Hong , Zhenni You , Yuxiang Li

The wide spread use of positioning and photographing devices gives rise to a deluge of traffic trajectory data (e.g., vehicle passage records and taxi trajectory data), with each record having at least three attributes: object ID, location…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Meng Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Yang Liu

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is one of the most important location-based services helping people discover interesting venues or services. However, the extreme user-POI matrix sparsity and the varying spatio-temporal context pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Xianjing Wang , Flora D. Salim , Yongli Ren , Piotr Koniusz

Spatial representations that capture both structural and semantic characteristics of urban environments are essential for urban modeling. Traditional spatial embeddings often prioritize spatial proximity while underutilizing fine-grained…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junyuan Liu , Xinglei Wang , Tao Cheng

Learning effective representations of urban environments requires capturing spatial structure beyond fixed administrative boundaries. Existing geospatial representation learning approaches typically aggregate Points of Interest(POI) into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mohammad Hashemi , Hossein Amiri , Andreas Zufle

Recent urbanization has coincided with the enrichment of geotagged data, such as street view and point-of-interest (POI). Region embedding enhanced by the richer data modalities has enabled researchers and city administrators to understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Tianyuan Huang , Zhecheng Wang , Hao Sheng , Andrew Y. Ng , Ram Rajagopal

Representation learning of geospatial locations remains a core challenge in achieving general geospatial intelligence, with increasingly diverging philosophies and techniques. While Earth observation paradigms excel at depicting locations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ya Wen , Jixuan Cai , Qiyao Ma , Linyan Li , Xinhua Chen , Chris Webster , Yulun Zhou

Understanding human mobility behavior is crucial for numerous applications, including crowd management, location-based recommendations, and the estimation of pandemic spread. Machine learning models can predict the Points of Interest (POIs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyao Li , Shang-Ling Hsu , Cyrus Shahabi

Accurate prediction of the next point of interest (POI) within human mobility trajectories is essential for location-based services, as it enables more timely and personalized recommendations. In particular, with the rise of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruichen Tan , Jiawei Xue , Kota Tsubouchi , Takahiro Yabe , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Human mobility data accumulated from Point-of-Interest (POI) check-ins provides great opportunity for user behavior understanding. However, data quality issues (e.g., geolocation information missing, unreal check-ins, data sparsity) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yanchi Liu , Jingjing Gu , Hui Xiong , Qing He

Knowledge discovery from GPS trajectory data is an important topic in several scientific areas, including data mining, human behavior analysis, and user modeling. This paper proposes a task that assigns personalized visited-POIs. Its goal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jun Suzuki , Yoshihiko Suhara , Hiroyuki Toda , Kyosuke Nishida

Place recognition, the ability to identify previously visited locations, is critical for both biological navigation and autonomous systems. This review synthesizes findings from robotic systems, animal studies, and human research to explore…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Human mobility forecasting is crucial for disaster relief, city planning, and public health. However, existing models either only model location sequences or include time information merely as auxiliary input, thereby failing to leverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yunzhi Liu , Haokai Tan , Rushi Kanjaria , Lihuan Li , Flora D. Salim

Human mobility prediction is a core functionality in many location-based services and applications. However, due to the sparsity of mobility data, it is not an easy task to predict future POIs (place-of-interests) that are going to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim , Yongli Ren , Nuria Oliver

POI recommendation is practically important to facilitate various Location-Based Social Network services, and has attracted rising research attention recently. Existing works generally assume the available POI check-ins reported by users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiangnan Xia , Yu Yang , Senzhang Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Jiannong Cao , Philip S. Yu

Recently, Point of interest (POI) recommendation has gained ever-increasing importance in various Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). With the recent advances of neural models, much work has sought to leverage neural networks to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Rasoul Mirzaei Zadeh , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

The next point-of-interest (POI) prediction is a significant task in location-based services, yet its complexity arises from the consolidation of spatial and semantic intent. This fusion is subject to the influences of historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Nan Jiang , Haitao Yuan , Jianing Si , Minxiao Chen , Shangguang Wang

Predicting the next pickup location of individual users is a fundamental problem in intelligent mobility systems, which requires modeling personalized travel behaviors under complex spatiotemporal contexts. Existing methods mainly learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lingyu Zhang , Pengfei Xu , Rui Ban , Zhenchao Zhang , Songtao Liu , Yan Wang , Yunhai Wang

Robots deployed in settings such as warehouses and parking lots must cope with frequent and substantial changes when localizing in their environments. While many previous localization and mapping algorithms have explored methods of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Amanda Adkins , Taijing Chen , Joydeep Biswas

As a core task in location-based services (LBS) (e.g., navigation maps), query and point of interest (POI) matching connects users' intent with real-world geographic information. Recently, pre-trained models (PTMs) have made advancements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ruixue Ding , Boli Chen , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Xin Li , Qiang Zhang , Yao Xu
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