Headway Group Of Research

Volume 10 Issue 2

A Novel Segment-Based Approach for Improving Classification Performance of Transport Mode Detection

M. Amac Guvensan, Burak Dusun, Baris Can and H. Irem Turkmen

 

Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, 34220 Istanbul, Turkey
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Abstract

Transportation planning and solutions have an enormous impact on city life. To minimize the transport duration, urban planners should understand and elaborate the mobility of a city. Thus, researchers look toward monitoring people’s daily activities including transportation types and duration by taking advantage of individual’s smartphones. This paper introduces a novel segment-based transport mode detection architecture in order to improve the results of traditional classification algorithms in the literature. The proposed post-processing algorithm, namely the Healing algorithm, aims to correct the misclassification results of machine learning-based solutions. Our real-life test results show that the Healing algorithm could achieve up to 40% improvement of the classification results. As a result, the implemented mobile application could predict eight classes including stationary, walking, car, bus, tram, train, metro and ferry with a success rate of 95% thanks to the proposed multi-tier architecture and Healing algorithm.
Keywords:transport mode detection; post-processing; smartphone; accelerometer; gyroscope; magnetometer; correction of misclassified vehicle types; pedestrian and vehicular activities
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