scholarly journals Automatic Generation of Road Maps from Low Quality GPS Trajectory Data via Structure Learning

IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 71965-71975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jincai Huang ◽  
Min Deng ◽  
Jianbo Tang ◽  
Shuling Hu ◽  
Huimin Liu ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Banqiao Chen ◽  
Chibiao Ding ◽  
Wenjuan Ren ◽  
Guangluan Xu

The requirements of location-based services have generated an increasing need for up-to-date digital road maps. However, traditional methods are expensive and time-consuming, requiring many skilled operators. The feasibility of using massive GPS trajectory data provides a cheap and quick means for generating and updating road maps. The detection of road intersections, being the critical component of a road map, is a key problem in map generation. Unfortunately, low sampling rates and high disparities are ubiquitous among floating car data (FCD), making road intersection detection from such GPS trajectories very challenging. In this paper, we extend a point clustering-based road intersection detection framework to include a post-classification course, which utilizes the geometric features of road intersections. First, we propose a novel turn-point position compensation algorithm, in order to improve the concentration of selected turn-points under low sampling rates. The initial detection results given by the clustering algorithm are recall-focused. Then, we rule out false detections in an extended classification course based on an image thinning algorithm. The detection results of the proposed method are quantitatively evaluated by matching with intersections from OpenStreetMap using a variety of distance thresholds. Compared with other methods, our approach can achieve a much higher recall rate and better overall performance, thereby better supporting map generation and other similar applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Banqiao Chen ◽  
Chibiao Ding ◽  
Wenjuan Ren ◽  
Guangluan Xu

High-quality digital road maps are essential prerequisites of location-based services and smart city applications. The massive and accessible GPS trajectory data generated by mobile GPS devices provide a new means through which to generate maps. However, due to the low sampling rate and multi-level disparity problems, automatically generating road maps is challenging and the generated maps cannot yet meet commercial requirements. In this paper, we present a GPS trajectory data-based road tracking algorithm, including an active contour-based road centerline refinement algorithm as the necessary post-processing. First, the low-frequency trajectory data were transferred into a density estimation map representing the roads through a kernel density estimator, for a seeding algorithm to automatically generate the initial points of the road-tracking algorithm. Then, we present a template-matching-based road-direction extraction algorithm for the road trackers to conduct simple correction, based on local density information. Last, we present an active contour-based road centerline refinement algorithm, considering both the geometric information of roads and density information. The generated road map was quantitatively evaluated using maps offered by the OpenStreetMap. Compared to other methods, our approach could produce a higher quality map with fewer zig-zag roads, and therefore more accurately represents reality.


Informatica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei HAO ◽  
Chunlong YAO ◽  
Qingbin MENG ◽  
Xiaoqiang YU ◽  
Xu LI

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Chen ◽  
Daqing Zhang ◽  
Yasha Wang ◽  
Hongyu Huang

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang ◽  
Deng ◽  
Huang ◽  
Liu ◽  
Chen

Ubiquitous trajectory data provides new opportunities for production and update of the road network. A number of methods have been proposed for road network construction and update based on trajectory data. However, existing methods were mainly focused on reconstruction of the existing road network, and the update of newly added roads was not given much attention. Besides, most of existing methods were designed for high sampling rate trajectory data, while the commonly available GPS trajectory data are usually low-quality data with noise, low sampling rates, and uneven spatial distributions. In this paper, we present an automatic method for detection and update of newly added roads based on the common low-quality trajectory data. First, additive changes (i.e., newly added roads) are detected using a point-to-segment matching algorithm. Then, the geometric structures of new roads are constructed based on a newly developed decomposition-combination map generation algorithm. Finally, the detected new roads are refined and combined with the original road network. Seven trajectory data were used to test the proposed method. Experiments show that the proposed method can successfully detect the additive changes and generate a road network which updates efficiently.


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