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[Page no. 2] "strategy that considers each trajectory as a sequence of three-dimensional records (time, latitude, longitude) leads to dramatically oscillating parameters and non-convergence in the optimization process of RNNs. In light of the above issue, we ﬁrst extract a set of movement features for each trajectory. Our feature extraction module is based on a ﬁxed-length sliding window, which scans through the input trajectory and extracts space- and time- invariant features of the trajectories. After feature extraction, we con- vert each trajectory into a feature sequence to describe the movements of the object and employ a sequence to sequence auto-encoder to learn ﬁxed-length deep representations of the objects. The learnt low-dimensional representations robustly encode different movement characteristics of the objects and thus lead to high-quality clusters. In summary, we make the following contributions: • We study the problem of detecting space- and time- invariant trajectory clusters. Such a task differs from previous works in that it can group trajectories collected in different regions with varying lengths and sampling rates. • We employ a sliding-window-based approach to extract a set of robust movement features, and then apply se- 978-1-5090-6182-2/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE 3880  quence to sequence auto-encoders to learn ﬁxed-length representations for the trajectories. To the best of our knowledge, this is the ﬁrst study that leverages recurrent neural networks for the trajectory clustering task. • We evaluate our method on both synthetic and real-life data. We ﬁnd that our method can generate high-quality clusters on both data sets and largely outperforms existing methods quantitatively. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section II, we review related work. We overview of our method in Section III and then detail the main steps in Section IV. We empirically evaluate the proposed method in Section V and ﬁnally conclude in Section VI. II."

[Page no. 2] "RELATED WORKS In this section, we brieﬂy review the existing approaches for trajectory clustering, trajectory pattern mining, and sequence to sequence auto-encoder. A. Trajectory Clustering Classic trajectory clustering approaches [4] apply distance- based or density-based clustering algorithms based on similar- ity measures for trajectory data [7], such as DTW (Dynamic Time Warping), EDR (Edit Distance on Real sequence) and LCSS (Longest Common Subsequences). Lee et al. [8] pro- posed a framework which ﬁrst partitioned the each trajectory into sub-trajectories and then groups sub-trajectories using density-based clustering method. Tang et al. [9] presented a travel behavior clustering algorithm, which combined sam- pling with density-based clustering to deal with the noise in trajectory data. Li et al. [10] proposed an incremental frame- work to support online incremental clustering. Besse et al. [4] performed distance-based trajectory clustering by introducing a new distance measurement. Kohonen et al.[11][12] devel- oped SOM (Self-Organizing Maps) and LVQ (Learning Vector Quantization), which could be used for adaptive trajectory analysis and clustering. While the aforementioned methods can cluster trajectories that are similar in a ﬁxed region and period, they are inapplicable for discovering space- and time- invariant clusters. B. Trajectory Pattern Mining A number of methods have been proposed for mining different patterns in trajectories. Hung et al. [6] proposed a trajectory pattern mining framework that extracted frequent travel patterns and then trajectory routes. Zhang et al. [2] developed an efﬁcient and robust method for extracting fre- quent sequential patterns from semantic trajectories. Higgs et al. [13] proposed a framework for the segmentation and clustering of car-following trajectories based on state-action variables. Zhang et al. [14] used the hidden Markov Model to model the mobility for different groups of users. Liu et al. [15] introduced a speed-based clustering method to detect taxi charging fraud behavior. Different from our work"

[Page no. 1] "Trajectory Clustering via Deep Representation Learning Di Yao1,3, Chao Zhang2, Zhihua Zhu1,3, Jianhui Huang1,3, Jingping Bi1,3 1Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email: 1,3{yaodi, zhuzhihua, huangjianhui, <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_EMAIL_ADDRESS>, <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_EMAIL_ADDRESS> Abstract—Trajectory clustering, which aims at discovering groups of similar trajectories, has long been considered as a corner stone task for revealing movement patterns as well as facilitating higher-level applications like location prediction. While a plethora of trajectory clustering techniques have been proposed, they often rely on spatiotemporal similarity measures that are not space- and time- invariant. As a result, they cannot detect trajectory clusters where the within-cluster similarity occurs in different regions and time periods. In this paper, we revisit the trajectory clustering problem by learning quality low- dimensional representations of the trajectories. We ﬁrst use a sliding window to extract a set of moving behavior features that capture space- and time- invariant characteristics of the trajectories. With the feature extraction module, we transform each trajectory into a feature sequence to describe object movements, and further employ a sequence to sequence auto- encoder to learn ﬁxed-length deep representations. The learnt representations robustly encode the movement characteristics of the objects and thus lead to space- and time- invariant clusters. We evaluate the proposed method on both synthetic and real data, and observe signiﬁcant performance improvements over existing methods. I. INTRODUCTION Owing to the rapid growth of GPS-equipped devices and location-based services, enormous amounts of spatial trajec- tory data are being collected in different scenarios. Among various trajectory analysis tasks, trajectory clustering — which aims at discovering groups of similar trajectories — has been recognized as one of the most important. Discovering trajectory clusters can not only reveal the latent"

[Page no. 1] "characteristics of the moving objects, but also support a wide spectrum of high-level applications, such as travel intention inference, mo- bility pattern mining [1], [2], location prediction and anomaly detection [3]. A plethora of trajectory clustering techniques have been proposed [4]. They typically use certain measures to quan- tify trajectory similarities, and then apply classic clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means, DBSCAN, spectral clustering). Popular trajectory similarity measures[5] include DTW (Dy- namic Time Warping), EDR (Edit Distance on Real sequence) and LCSS (Longest Common Subsequences). Although these measures can group trajectories that are similar in a ﬁxed geographical region and time period, many practical appli- cations involve trajectories that distribute in different regions with different lengths and sampling rates. In such applications, one is often required to ﬁnd clusters where the within-cluster similarity appears in different time and space. For example, the taxis in trafﬁc jams can have similar moving behaviors, but the trafﬁc jams usually occur in different areas in the city with different durations. Such spatio-temporal shifts [6] are common in many scenarios and render current trajectory clustering algorithms ineffective. In this work, we revisit the trajectory clustering problem by developing a method that can detect space- and time- invariant trajectory clusters. Our method is inspired by the recent success of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for handling sequential data in Speech Recognition and Neural Language Processing. Given the input trajectories, our goal is to convert each trajectory into a ﬁxed-length representation that well encodes the object’s moving behaviors. Once the high-quality trajectory representations are learnt, one can easily apply any classic clustering algorithms according to practical needs. Nevertheless, it is nontrivial to directly apply RNN to the input trajectories to obtain quality representations because of the varying qualities and sampling frequencies of the given trajectories. We ﬁnd that a naive"

[Page no. 7] "that contains 117 trajectories is depicted in Figure 10. As shown, most of trajectories are distributed in tourist city. Besides, most of them are the short round trips. We ﬁnd that the trajectories �� Fig. 9. ELBOW Method to Choose K. Ek with suitable K value should be the elbow point in this ﬁgure. Here, we choose K = 33. ���������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������� ��������������������������������������� Fig. 10. Trajectories in Cluster 1. The blue lines stand for the trajectories; the yellow points stand for the start point and the red points stand for the end point. Most of trajectories in this cluster are short round trips between tourist cities and generated by passenger ships. in this cluster are mostly generated from short passenger ship with high probability. The cluster in Figure 11 contains 180 trajectories. We can easily ﬁnd that most of the trajectories are distributed in the inland river and the trajectories are sparser and longer than those in the ﬁrst cluster. We examined the 3885  ������������������������������������������ ����������������������������������������� ������������������������������������ �������������������������������������� Fig. 11. Trajectories in Cluster 2. The blue lines stand for the trajectories; the yellow points stand for the start point and the red points stand for the end point. Most trajectories in this cluster are distributed in inland rivers and it is sparser and longer than Cluster 1. These trajectories are generated by inland cargo ships. member trajectories in this cluster, and ﬁnd that most of them are generated from inland cargo ships. The above experiments show that the clusters generated by our approach can capture the movement patterns of the objects in different time and space. The trajectories in each cluster are meaningful and we can easily interpret each cluster by analyzing the typical trajectories in them. Vessel Type Analysis Task: Prior research has shown that different vessel"

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