< ^  >

Track Similarity

Requires measuring distance between two trajectories for possible "alignments" and choosing minimum.

Trajectory distance was tested by:

  • creating 80 widely-varied trajectories

  • choosing 10 of these as "queries"

  • asking 10 users to give similarity for 79 against each query

  • measuring distances using distance function

  • comparing measured distance rank with user-assigned distance rank

Found: reasonable precision/recall performance for threshold 70%


< ^  >