Estimating Road Segments Using Natural Point Correspondences of GPS Trajectories
by
Artem Leichter 1,* and
Martin Werner 2
Artem Leichter 1,* and
Martin Werner 2
1
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany
2
Institute for Applied Computer Science and Forschungsinstitut CODE, Bundeswehr University Munich, 85577 Munich, Germany
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Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(20), 4255; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9204255
Received: 31 August 2019 / Revised: 4 October 2019 / Accepted: 8 October 2019 / Published: 11 October 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Averaging GPS Segments)
This work proposes a fast and straightforward method, called natural point correspondences (NaPoCo), for the extraction of road segment shapes from trajectories of vehicles. The algorithm can be expressed with 20 lines of code in Python and can be used as a baseline for further extensions or as a heuristic initialization for more complex algorithms. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method. We show that (1) the order of the points in a trajectory can be used to cluster points among the trajectories for road segment shape extraction and (2) that preprocessing using polygonal approximation improves the results of the approach. Furthermore, we show based on “averaging GPS segments” competition results, that the algorithm despite its simplicity and low computational complexity achieves state-of-the-art performance on the challenge dataset, which is composed of data from several cities and countries.
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Keywords:
GPS; trajectory; segments; averaging; road network
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