Efficient Compression and Indexing of Trajectories

Abstract

We present a new compressed representation of free trajec tories of moving objects. It combines a partial-sums-based structure that retrieves in constant time the position of the object at any instant, with a hierarchical minimum-bounding-boxes representation that allows deter mining if the object is seen in a certain rectangular area during a time period. Combined with spatial snapshots at regular intervals, the repre sentation is shown to outperform classical ones by orders of magnitude in space, and also to outperform previous compressed representations in time performance, when using the same amount of space.