On Comparing the Similarity and Dissimilarity Between Two Distinct Vehicular Trajectories

Autor: Lihui Dai, Peng Zou, Binhai Zhu, Letu Qingge, Qing Yang
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 9, Pp 34415-34422 (2021)
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3061501
Popis: In this paper, we study the problem of comparing the similarity and dissimilarity between two distinct vehicular trajectories by proposing an adjacency-based metric. This approach has a broad application in building truthfulness by comparing the similarity between two vehicles and evaluating the dissimilarity between two distinct paths in hazardous materials transportation. Given two sequences $A$ and $B$ of Point of Interests (POIs) visited by two vehicles in a road/transportation network, the problem is to delete some nodes from $A$ and $B$ to obtain $A'$ and $B'$ such that the number of adjacencies in $A'$ and $B'$ is maximized. In the sequences $A'$ and $B'$ duplicated nodes are allowed, e.g., to represent road edges. We prove that this problem is NP-hard when noisy POIs are deleted and all the remaining POIs must be involved in some adjacency. On the other hand, when the adjacency involvement constraint is dropped, a variation of the problem is as hard as Exact Set Cover hence cannot be approximated within a constant factor unless P=NP. At last, we design a practical approach based on local search and show that the algorithm is very effective on simulation data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE