Discovering Urban Functional Zones Using Latent Activity Trajectories

• Published in: IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 712 - 725
• Main Authors: Yuan, Nicholas Jing, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Yingzi Wang, Kai Zheng, Hui Xiong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2015
• Subjects: Collaboration; Image segmentation; Roads; Semantics; Trajectory; Urban areas; points of interest; human mobility; Functional zones; latent activity trajectories

The step of urbanization and modern civilization fosters different functional zones in a city, such as residential areas, business districts, and educational areas. In a metropolis, people commute between these functional zones every day to engage in different socioeconomic activities, e.g., working...