Detecting anomalous vehicle behavior through automatic voting

A system for detecting anomalous vehicle behavior comprising:

• one or more event servers configured to manage events occurring in a geographical region;
• one or more object servers configured to manage information pertaining to vehicles in the geographical region;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory containing instructions that when executed by the processor causes the following method to be performed:
• determining whether a plurality of received car probes include one or more indicators of unusual behavior;
• selecting an object agent corresponding to a vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior;
• performing a search to select one or more vehicles surrounding the vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior;
• determining an information entropy, from received car probes, for the vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior and for each of the selected surrounding vehicles;
• calculating an anomalous point value for each vehicle, based on the determined information entropies;
• and
• in response to determining that the anomalous point value for a car exceeds a pre-determined threshold, flagging the vehicle as a vehicle exhibiting anomalous behavior.

A computer program product detecting anomalous vehicle behavior, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions being executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

• determining whether a plurality of received car probes include one or more indicators of unusual behavior;
• selecting an object agent corresponding to a vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior;
• performing a search to select one or more vehicles surrounding the vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior;
• determining an information entropy, from received car probes, for the vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior and for each of the selected surrounding vehicles;
• calculating an anomalous point value for each vehicle, based on the determined information entropies;
• and
• in response to determining that the anomalous point value for a car exceeds a pre-determined threshold, flagging the vehicle as a vehicle exhibiting anomalous behavior.