tracking moving objects in anonymized trajectories
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Tracking Moving Objects in Anonymized Trajectories. Nikolay Vyahhi 1 , Spiridon Bakiras 2 , Panos Kalnis 3 , and Gabriel Ghinita 3 1 St. Petersburg State University 2 John Jay College, City Univ. of New York 3 National University of Singapore. Motivation. Collection of Trajectory Data - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tracking Moving Objects in Anonymized Trajectories
Nikolay Vyahhi1, Spiridon Bakiras2, Panos Kalnis3, and Gabriel Ghinita3
1St. Petersburg State University2John Jay College, City Univ. of New York
3National University of Singapore
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Motivation
Collection of Trajectory Data Example: Traffic monitoring system
GPS or Sensors deployed across a city Queries: Predict traffic conditions
Data expected to be anonymous Remove ID
Reconstruction of original trajectories E.g., Police tracking a suspect
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Problem Statement
Given a large database with anonymized spatio-temporal measurements, reconstruct the original object trajectories
Requirements Efficiency (large databases) Accuracy (useful results)
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Problem Statement
Input: A series of M snapshots Si, each containing exactly N measurements from timestamp ti
Output: A set of N trajectories
Each measurement can be associated with a single trajectory
M = N = 3
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Related work: Multiple Target Tracking
This problem is closely related to multiple target tracking (MTT) algorithms Studied in the field of radar technology
Three major categories Nearest neighbor (NN) Joint probabilistic data association (JPDA) Multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT)
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Related work: NN and JPDA
They work in a single scan of the dataset Greedy approach: in each timestamp,
every sample is associated with a single track
Objective: minimize the error across all associations in the current timestamp
Performance: Efficient – can work in polynomial time Greedy approach results in many false
associations
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Related work: MHT
Multiple hypotheses are maintained Joint probabilities are calculated recursively when
new measurements are received Each association is based on both previous
and subsequent data (multiple scans) Unfeasible hypotheses are eventually
eliminated Performance:
Very accurate Computational and space complexity is exponential
to the number of measurements
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Comparison
Very accurateVery slow
Large errorsFast
Very accurateMuch faster than MHT
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Our ApproachMCMF: Min-cost Max-flow
Transform the tracking problem into a min-cost max-flow problem
Min-cost max-flow (graph algorithm) Input: a weighted graph G with two special
nodes (source s and destination t) Objective: find the maximum flow that can be
sent from s to t that results in the minimum cost
Well-known algorithms exist that work in polynomial time
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Transformation
All edges have capacity 1 Node id (ti, pi, pj): the object moves from location pi
in timestamp ti to location pj in timestamp ti+1
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Calculating the Cost Values
Assume two successive measurements (pi and pj) belong to the same track
Use these values to predict the next location Calculate the error (i.e., cost) for every possible
location pk
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Limitation of this Approach
Problem: A single measurement can be associated with multiple tracks!
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Solution:Create a Block for each Measurement
Corresponds to all partial tracks pm-1,i pm,k pm+1,j
A block containing a flow is marked as active
The only possible route inside an active block, is through the reverse path of the existing flow
Block for kth measurement of mth timestamp (pm,k)
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Block Functionality
Block for p3,1Block for p2,1
Original track: p2,1 p3,1 p4,1
New track: p2,2 p3,1 p4,1
Original track: p1,1 p2,1 p3,1
New track: p1,1 p2,1 p3,2
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Improving the Running Time
Flow network is too large Inefficient, since solution requires multiple
shortest path calculations
Assume any object can travel at most Rmax distance between two consecutive timestamps. Rmax depends on The maximum speed of the objects The time interval between two timestamps
This reduces significantly the number of vertices and edges inside each block
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The Tracking Algorithm
Successive Shortest Path Algorithm At each iteration, send a single flow unit across
the shortest path from s to t Total of N iterations in our case
Most efficient implementation: Dijkstra with Fibonacci heap for priority queue Graph contains negative weights, but can
utilize vertex potentials to avoid this (provided that there are no negative weight cycles)
Bellman-Ford also works very well
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Dealing with Negative Weight Cycles
Negative weight cycles do appear in MCMF calculations
In this case, follow a greedy approach: Output all the tracks that are discovered so far
they might not be optimal Remove all vertices and edges associated with
these tracks from the flow network Start a new min-cost max-flow calculation on
the reduced graph
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Complexity
Computational: N iterations of a shortest path algorithm O(MN2K(log(MNK) + K)) for Dijkstra with
Fibonacci heap K is the average number of feasible
associations (due to Rmax) per measurement
Space: O(MNK2) for storing the graph
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Experimental Evaluation
Data generator: Road map of San Francisco city For each object, randomly select a starting
point and a destination point The object then follows the shortest path
between the two points At each timestamp, every object i covers a
distance di [0,Rmax] Number of measurements: 50,000 to 500,000
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Experimental Evaluation
Competitor: Global Nearest Neighbor (GNN) Employs clustering within each snapshot Considered the best single scan algorithm –
runs in O(MNC2) time (C is the average cluster size)
Performance metrics: CPU time Success rate – percentage of partial tracks
(triplets) that agree with original data
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Variable N
CPU time [sec] Success rate [%]
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Variable Rmax (speed)
CPU time [sec] Success rate [%]
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Points to Remember
Multiple-Target Tracking Large Anonymized Trajectory Databases
Existing methods are either inefficient or inaccurate
We proposed a polynomial time solution based on a novel transformation of the MTT problem into a min-cost max-flow problem
Very accurate Need to improve the running time
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Bibliography on LBS Privacy
http://anonym.comp.nus.edu.sg