A new framework for traffic anomaly detection

Jinsong Lan, Cheng Long, Raymond Chi Wing Wong, Youyang Chen, Yanjie Fu, Danhuai Guo, Shuguang Liu, Yong Ge, Yuanchun Zhou, Jianhui Li

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26 Scopus citations

Abstract

Trajectory data is becoming more and more popular nowadays and extensive studies have been conducted on trajectory data. One important research direction about trajectory data is the anomaly detection which is to find all anomalies based on trajectory patterns in a road network. In this paper, we introduce a road segment-based anomaly detection problem, which is to detect the abnormal road segments each of which has its "real" traffic deviating from its "expected" traffic and to infer the major causes of anomalies on the road network. First, a deviation-based method is proposed to quantify the anomaly of reach road segment. Second, based on the observation that one anomaly from a road segment can trigger other anomalies from the road segments nearby, a diffusionbased method based on a heat diffusion model is proposed to infer the major causes of anomalies on the whole road network. To validate our methods, we conduct intensive experiments on a large real-world GPS dataset of about 23,000 taxis in Shenzhen, China to demonstrate the performance of our algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2014, SDM 2014
EditorsMohammed Zaki, Zoran Obradovic, Pang Ning-Tan, Arindam Banerjee, Chandrika Kamath, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
PublisherSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications
Pages875-883
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781510811515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event14th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2014 - Philadelphia, United States
Duration: Apr 24 2014Apr 26 2014

Publication series

NameSIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2014, SDM 2014
Volume2

Conference

Conference14th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia
Period4/24/144/26/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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