학술논문

Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Similarity Measures: A Comprehensive Survey and Quantitative Study
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 36(5):2191-2212 May, 2024
Subject
Computing and Processing
Trajectory
Roads
Surveys
Time measurement
Noise measurement
Benchmark testing
Time series analysis
Trajectory similarity measure
distributed similarity search
deep representation learning
experimental evaluation
Language
ISSN
1041-4347
1558-2191
2326-3865
Abstract
Spatio-temporal trajectory analytics are useful in diversified applications such as urban planning, infrastructure development, and vehicular networks. Trajectory similarity measure, which aims to evaluate the distance between two trajectories, is a fundamental functionality of trajectory analytics. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive survey that investigates all the most common and representative spatio-temporal trajectory measures. First, we provide an overview of spatio-temporal trajectory measures in terms of three hierarchical perspectives: Non-learning versus Learning, Free Space versus Road Network, and Standalone versus Distributed. Next, we present an evaluation benchmark by designing five real-world transformation scenarios. Based on this benchmark, extensive experiments are conducted to study the effectiveness, robustness, efficiency, and scalability of each measure, which offers guidelines for trajectory measure selection among multiple techniques and applications such as trajectory data mining, deep learning, and distributed processing. Specifically, i) Effectiveness: In terms of trajectory length, DFD and Seg-Frechet are length-sensitive, while OWD and Hausdorff always return same results when varying query trajectory length. In terms of trajectory shape, LCRS and LORS are able to effectively find similar trajectories for query trajectories with different shapes; ii) Robustness: Learning based measures are more robust compared with non-learning based ones. Among non-learning based measures, DFD, Hausdorff, OWD and Seg-Frechet are relatively non-sensitive to noises and different sampling rates; and iii) Efficiency& Scalability: Compared to non-learning based measures, learning based and distributed based measures are more efficient and scalable.