Vehicular traffic volume in large cities has increased in recent years, causing mobility problems; therefore,the analysis of vehicle flow data becomes a relevant research topic. Intelligent Transportation Systems monitor and control vehicular movements by collecting GPS trajectories, which provides the geographic location of vehicles in real time. Thus information is processed using clustering techniques to identify vehicular flow patterns. This work presents a methodologycapable of analyzing the vehicular flow in a given area, identifying speed ranges and keeping an interactivemap updated that facilitates the identification of possible traffic jam areas. The results obtained on threedata sets from the cities of Guayaquil-Ecuador, RomeItaly and Beijing-China are satisfactory and clearlyrepresent the speed of movement of the vehicles, automatically identifying the most representative ranges inreal time.
Human action recognition from skeletal data is an important and active area of research in which the state of the art has not yet achieved near-perfect accuracy on many wellknown datasets. In this paper, we introduce the Distribution of Action Movements Descriptor, a novel action descriptor based on the distribution of the directions of the motions of the joints between frames, over the set of all possible motions in the dataset. The descriptor is computed as a normalized histogram over a set of representative directions of the joints, which are in turn obtained via clustering. While the descriptor is global in the sense that it represents the overall distribution of movement directions of an action, it is able to partially retain its temporal structure by applying a windowing scheme.The descriptor, together with a standard classifier, outperforms several state-of-the-art techniques on many wellknown datasets.
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