GPS Trajectory Completion Using End-to-End Bidirectional Convolutional Recurrent Encoder-Decoder Architecture with Attention Mechanism

Abstract

GPS datasets in the big data regime provide rich contextual information that enable efficient implementation of advanced features such as navigation, tracking, and security in urban computing systems. Understanding the hidden patterns in large amount of GPS data is critically important in ubiquitous computing. The quality of GPS data is the fundamental key problem to produce high quality results. In real world applications, certain GPS trajectories are sparse and incomplete; this increases the complexity of inference algorithms. Few of existing studies have tried to address this problem using complicated algorithms that are based on conventional heuristics; this requires extensive domain knowledge of underlying applications. Our contribution in this paper are two-fold. First, we proposed deep learning based bidirectional convolutional recurrent encoder-decoder architecture to generate the missing points of GPS trajectories over occupancy grid-map. Second, we interfaced attention mechanism between enconder and decoder, that further enhance the performance of our model. We have performed the experiments on widely used Microsoft geolife trajectory dataset, and perform the experiments over multiple level of grid resolutions and multiple lengths of missing GPS segments. Our proposed model achieved better results in terms of average displacement error as compared to the state-of-the-art benchmark methods.