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Knowledge discovery in Trajectory Databases (TD) is an emerging field which has recently gained great interest. On the other hand, the inherent presence of uncertainty in TD (e.g., due to GPS errors) has not been taken yet into account during the mining process. In this paper, we study the effect of uncertainty in TD clustering and introduce a three-step approach to deal with it. First, we propose an intuitionistic point vector representation of trajectories that encompasses the underlying uncertainty and introduce an effective distance metric to cope with uncertainty. Second, we devise CenTra, a novel algorithm which tackles the problem of discovering the Centroid Trajectory of a group of movements taking into advantage the local similarity between portions of trajectories. Third, we propose a variant of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm, which embodies CenTra at its update procedure. Finally, we relax the vector representation of the Centroid Trajectories by introducing an algorithm that post-processes them, as such providing these mobility patterns to the analyst with a more intuitive representation. The experimental evaluation over synthetic and real world TD demonstrates the efficiency and effectiveness of our approach.
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Pelekis, N., Kopanakis, I., Kotsifakos, E.E. et al. Clustering uncertain trajectories. Knowl Inf Syst 28, 117–147 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-010-0316-x
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