Abnormal Trajectory Detection Based on Geospatial Consistent Modeling

Abstract

Anomalous trajectory detection plays a significant role in fraud detection and adverse events monitoring for ride-hailing services. The spatial and temporal dynamics of road networks and the sparsity of trajectories make anomalous trajectory detection a challenging task. Most existing methods are based on density and isolation approaches, which ignore geographical information. Motivated by these challenges and shortcomings, we propose a novel method, which considers geospatial constraints of the trajectories and avoids sparsity issues. In our method, the geographical information and topological constraints of trajectories are embedded into structured vector space. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are used to model common trajectory features. Our method could identify anomalous trajectories and determine which parts are responsible for anomalies by using these features. Experiments on two real-world datasets have been conducted, and results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.