V-Spline: An 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 introduce a...

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Main Authors: Cao, Zhanglong, Bryant, David, Molteno, Timothy CA, Fox, Colin, Parry, Matthew
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83422
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author Cao, Zhanglong
Bryant, David
Molteno, Timothy CA
Fox, Colin
Parry, Matthew
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Bryant, David
Molteno, Timothy CA
Fox, Colin
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 an 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 proposed, and, in simulation studies, the V-spline shows superior performance to existing methods. 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-20.500.11937-834222021-05-17T03:23:10Z V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction Cao, Zhanglong Bryant, David Molteno, Timothy CA Fox, Colin Parry, Matthew 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 an 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 proposed, and, in simulation studies, the V-spline shows superior performance to existing methods. 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. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83422 10.3390/s21093215 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ fulltext
spellingShingle Cao, Zhanglong
Bryant, David
Molteno, Timothy CA
Fox, Colin
Parry, Matthew
V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_full V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_fullStr V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_full_unstemmed V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_short V-Spline: An Adaptive Smoothing Spline for Trajectory Reconstruction
title_sort v-spline: an adaptive smoothing spline for trajectory reconstruction
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83422