GISCUP 2012

 
The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012 conference was held November 6th - 9th 2012 in Redondo Beach, CA. The GIS CUP 2012 was successful held with the generous sponsorship of Microsoft and NVIDIA. At the conference the top 5 winners of the GIS Cup 2012 were officially announced. Additionally, the GIS Cup organizers and each of the 5 winning teams had papers published in the conference proceedings. The first place team will receive US$ 500 plus one NVIDIA Quadro 6000 (or similar) graphics card. Second place will receive US$ 400 plus one NVIDIA TEGRA tablet device. Third place will receive US$ 300 and one NVIDIA TEGRA tablet. Please see the names of the winners and their papers below.
 

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GIS CUP 2012 report:
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2012
    Mohamed Ali (Microsoft Research, USA), Travis Rautman (University of Washington Tacoma, USA), John Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA), Ankur Teredesai (University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
GIS CUP 2012 Winners:
  1. An Efficient Algorithm for Mapping Vehicle Trajectories onto Road Networks
    Youze Tang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Andy Diwen Zhu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  2. Quick Map Matching Using Multi-Core CPU
    Renchu Song (Fudan University, China), Wei Lu (Fudan University, China), Weiwei Sun (Fudan University, China), Yan Huang (University of North Texas, USA), Chunan Chen (Fudan University, China)
  3. Effective Map-matching on the Most Simplified Road Network
    Kuien Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yaguang Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Fengcheng He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Jiajie Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Zhiming Ding (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  4. Fast Viterbi Map Matching with Tunable Weight Functions
    Hong Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Yin Wang (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA), George Forman (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA), Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Haibing Guan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
  5. Concurrent and Robust Topological Map Matching
    Roy Levin (Technion, Israel), Elad Kravi (Technion, Israel), Yaron Kanza (Technion, Israel)

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