A highly efficient framework for outlier detection in urban traffic flow

Abstract The outliers in traffic flow represent the anomalies or emergencies in the road. The detection and research of outliers will help to reveal the mechanism of such events. Aiming at the problem of outlier detection in urban traffic flow, this paper innovatively proposes a highly efficient tra...

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Autores principales: Xing Wang, Ruihao Zeng, Fumin Zou, Faliang Huang, Biao Jin
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:abd991d7eded4fec8feffdd7a42a5e3a2021-11-11T10:16:46ZA highly efficient framework for outlier detection in urban traffic flow1751-95781751-956X10.1049/itr2.12109https://doaj.org/article/abd991d7eded4fec8feffdd7a42a5e3a2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1049/itr2.12109https://doaj.org/toc/1751-956Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/1751-9578Abstract The outliers in traffic flow represent the anomalies or emergencies in the road. The detection and research of outliers will help to reveal the mechanism of such events. Aiming at the problem of outlier detection in urban traffic flow, this paper innovatively proposes a highly efficient traffic outlier detection framework based on the study of road traffic flow patterns. The main research works are as follows: (1) data pre‐processing, the road traffic flow matrix of the roads is calculated based on the collected GPS data, the non‐negative matrix factorisation algorithm is chosen to reduce the dimension of the matrix. (2) Road traffic flow pattern extraction, the fuzzy C‐means clustering algorithm with the Optimal k‐cluster centre (K‐FCM) is adopted to cluster the roads with the same road traffic flow pattern. (3) Outlier detection model training and evaluation, kernel density estimation is introduced to fit the probability density of roads traffic flow matrices which are used to train the back propagation neural network based on particle swarm optimisation to obtain the outlier detection and evaluation model, and a threshold is introduced to optimise the precision and recall of the model. The experimental results show that: the average precision and recall of the proposed method in this paper are 95.38% and 96.23%, respectively, and the average detection time is 28.4 seconds. The method has high accuracy, high efficiency and good practical significance.Xing WangRuihao ZengFumin ZouFaliang HuangBiao JinWileyarticleOutlier detectionRoad traffic flow patternNonnegative matrix factorization (NMF)K‐FCM clustering algorithmPSO‐BP neural networkTransportation engineeringTA1001-1280Electronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95ENIET Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol 15, Iss 12, Pp 1494-1507 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Outlier detection
Road traffic flow pattern
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF)
K‐FCM clustering algorithm
PSO‐BP neural network
Transportation engineering
TA1001-1280
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
spellingShingle Outlier detection
Road traffic flow pattern
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF)
K‐FCM clustering algorithm
PSO‐BP neural network
Transportation engineering
TA1001-1280
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
Xing Wang
Ruihao Zeng
Fumin Zou
Faliang Huang
Biao Jin
A highly efficient framework for outlier detection in urban traffic flow
description Abstract The outliers in traffic flow represent the anomalies or emergencies in the road. The detection and research of outliers will help to reveal the mechanism of such events. Aiming at the problem of outlier detection in urban traffic flow, this paper innovatively proposes a highly efficient traffic outlier detection framework based on the study of road traffic flow patterns. The main research works are as follows: (1) data pre‐processing, the road traffic flow matrix of the roads is calculated based on the collected GPS data, the non‐negative matrix factorisation algorithm is chosen to reduce the dimension of the matrix. (2) Road traffic flow pattern extraction, the fuzzy C‐means clustering algorithm with the Optimal k‐cluster centre (K‐FCM) is adopted to cluster the roads with the same road traffic flow pattern. (3) Outlier detection model training and evaluation, kernel density estimation is introduced to fit the probability density of roads traffic flow matrices which are used to train the back propagation neural network based on particle swarm optimisation to obtain the outlier detection and evaluation model, and a threshold is introduced to optimise the precision and recall of the model. The experimental results show that: the average precision and recall of the proposed method in this paper are 95.38% and 96.23%, respectively, and the average detection time is 28.4 seconds. The method has high accuracy, high efficiency and good practical significance.
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title A highly efficient framework for outlier detection in urban traffic flow
title_short A highly efficient framework for outlier detection in urban traffic flow
title_full A highly efficient framework for outlier detection in urban traffic flow
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