Welcome to the Human Mobility Prediction Challenge (HuMob Challenge) 2024!
The challenge this year: Multi-City Human Mobility Prediction
Question: Can we improve the predictability of human mobility using data from other cities?
More information in the The Challenge page
Motivation
Understanding, modeling, and predicting human mobility trajectories in urban areas is an essential task for various domains and applications, including transportation modeling, disaster risk management, and urban planning. The recent availability of large-scale human movement and behavior data collected from (often millions of) mobile devices and social media platforms have enabled the development and testing of complex human mobility models, resulting in a plethora of methods published in computer science venues such as ACM SIGSPATIAL.
However, human mobility prediction methods are trained and tested on different datasets due to the lack of open-source and large-scale human mobility datasets amid privacy concerns, making it difficult to make fair comparisons of other methods’ performances. The lack of large-scale open-source datasets has been one of the key barriers hindering the progress of human mobility model development.
Following the success of HuMob Challenge 2023 @ ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023, we will host HuMob Challenge 2024 using a synthetic but realistic human mobility dataset of 6K~100K individuals’ trajectories per city, across 75 days in 4 metropolitan areas provided by LY Corporation (previously Yahoo Japan). Participants will develop and test methods to predict human mobility trajectories using the provided open-source dataset.
Workshop at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024 @ Atlanta, USA
- The top ~10 teams with the best predictions will be invited to submit a final report with details of the methods and to present their work at the HuMob 2024 Workshop held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024 in Atlanta, USA on October 29th, 2024.
- We have prizes for the top 3 participants!
Important Dates
- July 10, 2024: data challenge announcement — done
- July 20, 2024: data open — done
- August 20, 2024:
registrationdata download deadline - September 20, 2024: submission deadline for final predictions (23:59 AoE)
- September 25, 2024: notification of top contestants
- October 1, 2024: submission deadline of workshop papers for top 10 teams
- October 5, 2024: camera-ready submission
- October 29, 2024: presentation in the workshop
Organizing Team
- Takahiro Yabe, New York University
- Kota Tsubouchi, LY Corporation
- Toru Shimizu, LY Corporation
- Yoshihide Sekimoto, University of Tokyo
- Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo
- Esteban Moro, Northeastern University
- Bruno Lepri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Massimiliano Luca, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Contact
Please contact Taka at takahiroyabe@nyu.edu for any questions!