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Record W4414030601 · doi:10.1016/j.trc.2025.105333

Real-time reconstruction of fragmented trajectories: An integrated machine learning and behavior-based spatiotemporal framework

2025· article· en· W4414030601 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueTransportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicTime Series Analysis and Forecasting
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceEngineeringMachine learningSimulation

Abstract

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High-quality road user trajectories are essential for various transportation applications. Despite the significant advancement of detection and tracking technologies, observed trajectories often suffer from several issues that impact their applicability, such as intrinsic errors, noise, and fragmentation. This paper introduces a real-time reconstruction framework for road user trajectories, designed to reconstruct coherent trajectories from potentially fragmented segments. The framework begins with processing the raw trajectories to extract several dynamic features such as velocity, acceleration, curvature, and heading. A Random Forest classifier is then utilized to identify trajectory segments likely belonging to the same path. The classifier incorporates the Subsequence Dynamic Time Warping (sDTW) metric and other spatiotemporal features. Next, similar segments are grouped into cohesive clusters where a trajectory reconstruction module merges the identified segments and interpolates missing segments using the Gaussian kernel-based regression. Finally, the reconstructed trajectories are smoothed using integrated wavelet transforms and Savitzky-Golay filters. The framework was trained and validated using trajectory data acquired from the Lyft Level 5 AV dataset. We focused on the reconstruction of pedestrian and cyclist trajectories due to their inherent complexity and unpredictability. Validation results confirmed the accuracy of the different system components as well as the accuracy of the reconstructed trajectories compared to ground truth data (RMSE of 0.1138 m and MAPE of 0.01%). Computational assessments indicate that the framework scales linearly with data size, with optimal performance for real-time applications achieved for 5- to 10-minute windows.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.779
Threshold uncertainty score0.565

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it