Discovering anomalous events from urban informatics data

Kasthuri Jayarajah; Vigneshwaran Subbaraju; Dulanga Weerakoon; Archan Misra; La Thanh Tam; Noel Athaide

doi:10.1117/12.2262404

4 May 2017 Discovering anomalous events from urban informatics data

Kasthuri Jayarajah, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Dulanga Weerakoon, Archan Misra, La Thanh Tam, Noel Athaide

Proceedings Volume 10190, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VIII; 101900F (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2262404
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2017, Anaheim, CA, United States

Abstract

Singapore’s “smart city” agenda is driving the government to provide public access to a broader variety of urban informatics sources, such as images from traffic cameras and information about buses servicing different bus stops. Such informatics data serves as probes of evolving conditions at different spatiotemporal scales. This paper explores how such multi-modal informatics data can be used to establish the normal operating conditions at different city locations, and then apply appropriate outlier-based analysis techniques to identify anomalous events at these selected locations. We will introduce the overall architecture of sociophysical analytics, where such infrastructural data sources can be combined with social media analytics to not only detect such anomalous events, but also localize and explain them. Using the annual Formula-1 race as our candidate event, we demonstrate a key difference between the discriminative capabilities of different sensing modes: while social media streams provide discriminative signals during or prior to the occurrence of such an event, urban informatics data can often reveal patterns that have higher persistence, including before and after the event. In particular, we shall demonstrate how combining data from (i) publicly available Tweets, (ii) crowd levels aboard buses, and (iii) traffic cameras can help identify the Formula-1 driven anomalies, across different spatiotemporal boundaries.

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Kasthuri Jayarajah, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Dulanga Weerakoon, Archan Misra, La Thanh Tam, and Noel Athaide "Discovering anomalous events from urban informatics data", Proc. SPIE 10190, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VIII, 101900F (4 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2262404

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