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gMission: A general spatial crowdsourcing platform

  • Zhao Chen
  • , Rui Fu
  • , Ziyuan Zhao
  • , Zheng Liu
  • , Leihao Xia
  • , Lei Chen
  • , Peng Cheng
  • , Caleb Chen Cao
  • , Yongxin Tong
  • , Chen Jason Zhang
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Research output: Contribution to journalConference articlepeer-review

Abstract

As one of the successful forms of using Wisdom of Crowd, crowdsourcing, has been widely used for many human intrinsic tasks, such as image labeling, natural language understanding, market predication and opinion mining. Meanwhile, with advances in pervasive technology, mobile devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, have become extremely popular. These mobile devices can work as sensors to collect multimedia data(audios, images and videos) and location information. This power makes it possible to implement the new crowdsourcing mode: spatial crowdsourcing. In spatial crowdsourcing, a requester can ask for resources related a specific location, the mobile users who would like to take the task will travel to that place and get the data. Due to the rapid growth of mobile device uses, spatial crowdsourcing is likely to become more popular than general crowdsourcing, such as Amazon Turk and Crowd ower. However, to implement such a platform, effective and efficient solutions for worker incentives, task assignment, result aggregation and data quality control must be developed. In this demo, we will introduce gMission, a general spatial crowdsourcing platform, which features with a collection of novel techniques, including geographic sensing, worker detection, and task recommendation. We introduce the sketch of system architecture and illustrate scenarios via several case analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1629-1632
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Volume7
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2014 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 1 Sep 20145 Sep 2014

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