Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data

With the rapid development of data acquisition technology, data acquisition departments can collect increasingly more data. Various data from government agencies are gradually becoming available to the public, including license plate recognition (VLPR) data. As a result, privacy protection is becomi...

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Main Authors: Hua Chen, Chen Xiong, Jia-meng Xie, Ming Cai
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6026140
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author Hua Chen
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Jia-meng Xie
Ming Cai
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Ming Cai
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description With the rapid development of data acquisition technology, data acquisition departments can collect increasingly more data. Various data from government agencies are gradually becoming available to the public, including license plate recognition (VLPR) data. As a result, privacy protection is becoming increasingly significant. In this paper, an adversary model based on passing time, color, type, and brand of VLPR data is proposed. Through experimental analysis, the tracking probability of a vehicle’s trajectory can be more than 94% if utilizing the original data. To decrease the tracking probability, a novel approach called the (m, n)-bucket model based on time series is proposed since previous works, such as those using generalization and bucketization models, cannot deal with data with multiple sensitive attributes (SAs) or data with time correlations. Meanwhile, a mathematical model is established to expound the privacy protection principle of the (m, n)-bucket model. By comparing the average calculated linking probability of all individuals and the actual linking probability, it is shown that the mathematical model that is proposed can well expound the privacy protection principle of the (m, n)-bucket model. Extensive experiments confirm that our technique can effectively prevent trajectory privacy disclosures.
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spelling doaj-art-748cd3fc06554aa8ba9f8bc83ed1852d2025-02-03T06:46:09ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952020-01-01202010.1155/2020/60261406026140Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR DataHua Chen0Chen Xiong1Jia-meng Xie2Ming Cai3School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, ChinaSchool of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, ChinaTraffic Administration Bureau of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510440, ChinaSchool of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, ChinaWith the rapid development of data acquisition technology, data acquisition departments can collect increasingly more data. Various data from government agencies are gradually becoming available to the public, including license plate recognition (VLPR) data. As a result, privacy protection is becoming increasingly significant. In this paper, an adversary model based on passing time, color, type, and brand of VLPR data is proposed. Through experimental analysis, the tracking probability of a vehicle’s trajectory can be more than 94% if utilizing the original data. To decrease the tracking probability, a novel approach called the (m, n)-bucket model based on time series is proposed since previous works, such as those using generalization and bucketization models, cannot deal with data with multiple sensitive attributes (SAs) or data with time correlations. Meanwhile, a mathematical model is established to expound the privacy protection principle of the (m, n)-bucket model. By comparing the average calculated linking probability of all individuals and the actual linking probability, it is shown that the mathematical model that is proposed can well expound the privacy protection principle of the (m, n)-bucket model. Extensive experiments confirm that our technique can effectively prevent trajectory privacy disclosures.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6026140
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Chen Xiong
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Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data
Journal of Advanced Transportation
title Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data
title_full Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data
title_fullStr Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data
title_full_unstemmed Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data
title_short Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data
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url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6026140
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