International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'04)
Curve-Based Representation of Moving Object Trajectories
Coimbra, Portugal
July 07-July 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2168-1
In recent years, many emerging database applications deal with continuously moving data objects — each data object moves continuously and frequently reports its current location, moving direction, and speed to the database server. A database server for these applications keeps track of the trajectories of individual moving objects and processes queries referring to the past or future trajectories. Related techniques view a moving object trajectory as a sequence of connected line segments. However, most natural moving objects, such as airplanes, vessels, and vehicles, draw a smooth trajectory with no angles. This paper presents our curve-based trajectory representation models. The presented results show that the curve-based models provide much more accurate trajectories than the line-based models when we have the same amount of data (same number of reported points). In other words, the curve-based models require a smaller amount of data while providing the same accuracy in trajectory representation.
Citation:
Byunggu Yu, Seon Ho Kim, Thomas Bailey, Ruben Gamboa, "Curve-Based Representation of Moving Object Trajectories," ideas, pp.419-425, International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'04), 2004