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TCN Model for Trajectory Inpainting with Symmetric Dilation

other · 2026-07-29

Researchers propose a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) with symmetric dilation to reconstruct missing segments in trajectory data, a task known as trajectory inpainting. Unlike forecasting-oriented architectures, the model relaxes the causality constraint to use both past and future observations. A composite loss function combines weighted mean squared error, boundary-continuity penalties, and smoothness regularization. The model was trained on a synthetic dataset of 1,000 training, 200 validation, and 300 test two-dimensional trajectories with randomly placed 20% masked segments, achieving strong R², MSE, and MAE metrics.

Key facts

  • Trajectory inpainting reconstructs contiguous missing segments from observed context.
  • TCN with symmetric dilation relaxes standard causality constraint.
  • Composite loss includes weighted MSE, boundary-continuity penalties, and smoothness regularizer.
  • Dataset: 1,000 train, 200 validation, 300 test two-dimensional trajectories.
  • 20% of each trajectory is randomly masked.
  • Model achieves good R², MSE, and MAE metrics.

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