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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A vehicle classification algorithm based on telematics data

Abstract

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In the thesis, I develop an algorithm to identify the vehicle model from telematics data. By extracting the features from the accelerometer and GPS data, we obtain the classification features, which then goes through a multiclass random forest classifier. We apply this results into problems of driver and vehicle identification. The result shows that, while the algorithm could identify the vehicle models to some extent, the dominating signal comes from driving style, and an approach running purely unsupervised learning is harder to achieve good classification results compared to supervised methods.

Degree

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Department dc:contributor.department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Grantor dc:publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year dc:date.issued
2018

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Nguyen, Linh Vuong
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Tomas Palacios, Hari Balakrishnan and Bill Bradley.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
Language dc:language.iso
eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120606
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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/120606

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Nguyen, Linh Vuong. A vehicle classification algorithm based on telematics data. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120606