Ovid: A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap

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  • Nicolas Tempelmeier
  • Elena Demidova

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  • University of Bonn
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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGSPATIAL '21
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
EditorsXiaofeng Meng, Fusheng Wang, Chang-Tien Lu, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, Xing Xie
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages415-418
Number of pages4
ISBN (electronic)9781450386647
Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2021
Event29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL 2021 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 2 Nov 20215 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameGIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Abstract

OpenStreetMap is a unique source of openly available worldwide map data, increasingly adopted in real-world applications. Vandalism detection in OpenStreetMap is critical and remarkably challenging due to the large scale of the dataset, the sheer number of contributors, various vandalism forms, and the lack of annotated data to train machine learning algorithms. This paper presents Ovid - a novel machine learning method for vandalism detection in OpenStreetMap. Ovid relies on a neural network architecture that adopts a multi-head attention mechanism to effectively summarize information indicating vandalism from OpenStreetMap changesets. To facilitate automated vandalism detection, we introduce a set of original features that capture changeset, user, and edit information. Our evaluation results on real-world vandalism data demonstrate that the proposed Ovid method outperforms the baselines by 4.7 percentage points in accuracy.

Keywords

    Machine Learning, OpenStreetMap, Vandalism Detection

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Ovid: A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap. / Tempelmeier, Nicolas; Demidova, Elena.
SIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. ed. / Xiaofeng Meng; Fusheng Wang; Chang-Tien Lu; Yan Huang; Shashi Shekhar; Xing Xie. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 415-418 (GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems).

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Tempelmeier, N & Demidova, E 2021, Ovid: A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap. in X Meng, F Wang, C-T Lu, Y Huang, S Shekhar & X Xie (eds), SIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 415-418, 29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL 2021, Virtual, Online, China, 2 Nov 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.11087, https://doi.org/10.1145/3474717.3484204
Tempelmeier, N., & Demidova, E. (2021). Ovid: A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap. In X. Meng, F. Wang, C.-T. Lu, Y. Huang, S. Shekhar, & X. Xie (Eds.), SIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (pp. 415-418). (GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.11087, https://doi.org/10.1145/3474717.3484204
Tempelmeier N, Demidova E. Ovid: A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap. In Meng X, Wang F, Lu CT, Huang Y, Shekhar S, Xie X, editors, SIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2021. p. 415-418. (GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems). doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.11087, 10.1145/3474717.3484204
Tempelmeier, Nicolas ; Demidova, Elena. / Ovid : A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Vandalism Detection in OpenStreetMap. SIGSPATIAL '21: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. editor / Xiaofeng Meng ; Fusheng Wang ; Chang-Tien Lu ; Yan Huang ; Shashi Shekhar ; Xing Xie. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. pp. 415-418 (GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems).
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