a-systematic-approach-for-selecting-trajectories-for-data-augmentation-2da3ea7f·1 events·first seen Aliases: A Systematic Approach for Selecting Trajectories for Data Augmentation
A thesis-derived arXiv preprint proposes a framework for evaluating five trajectory selection strategies—Outlierness, Diversity, Representativeness, Uncertainty, and Random—for data augmentation in spatio-temporal ML tasks. The study tests these strategies across four datasets spanning animal behavior, maritime, and urban traffic domains using linear and non-linear models with Optuna-based hyperparameter optimization. Key findings show systematic strategies (especially Outlierness and Uncertainty) outperform random selection in sparse datasets but can degrade performance in dense, high-quality datasets, with UMAP visualization confirming topological effects.