Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction

Trajectory reconstruction is the process of inferring the path of a moving object between successive observations. In this paper, we propose a smoothing spline -- which we name the V-spline -- that incorporates position and velocity information and a penalty term that controls acceleration. We in...

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Main Authors: Cao, Zhanglong, Bryant, David, Molteno, Tim, Fox, Colin, Parry, Matthew
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07184
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78087
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author Cao, Zhanglong
Bryant, David
Molteno, Tim
Fox, Colin
Parry, Matthew
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Bryant, David
Molteno, Tim
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Parry, Matthew
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description Trajectory reconstruction is the process of inferring the path of a moving object between successive observations. In this paper, we propose a smoothing spline -- which we name the V-spline -- that incorporates position and velocity information and a penalty term that controls acceleration. We introduce a particular adaptive V-spline designed to control the impact of irregularly sampled observations and noisy velocity measurements. A cross-validation scheme for estimating the V-spline parameters is given and we detail the performance of the V-spline on four particularly challenging test datasets. Finally, an application of the V-spline to vehicle trajectory reconstruction in two dimensions is given, in which the penalty term is allowed to further depend on known operational characteristics of the vehicle.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-780872020-07-24T05:18:29Z Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction Cao, Zhanglong Bryant, David Molteno, Tim Fox, Colin Parry, Matthew stat.ME stat.ME Trajectory reconstruction is the process of inferring the path of a moving object between successive observations. In this paper, we propose a smoothing spline -- which we name the V-spline -- that incorporates position and velocity information and a penalty term that controls acceleration. We introduce a particular adaptive V-spline designed to control the impact of irregularly sampled observations and noisy velocity measurements. A cross-validation scheme for estimating the V-spline parameters is given and we detail the performance of the V-spline on four particularly challenging test datasets. Finally, an application of the V-spline to vehicle trajectory reconstruction in two dimensions is given, in which the penalty term is allowed to further depend on known operational characteristics of the vehicle. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78087 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07184 fulltext
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stat.ME
Cao, Zhanglong
Bryant, David
Molteno, Tim
Fox, Colin
Parry, Matthew
Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_full Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_fullStr Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_full_unstemmed Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_short Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_sort adaptive smoothing spline for trajectory reconstruction
topic stat.ME
stat.ME
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07184
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78087