Imputation of random or non-random missing data is a long-standing research topic and a crucial application for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
A novel spatiotemporal traffic imputation method, Multimode Nonlinear Transformed Tensor Nuclear Norm (MNT-TNN), is proposed to address the challenges in random missing value imputation and spatiotemporal dependency modeling.
MNT-TNN utilizes the Transform-based Tensor Nuclear Norm (TTNN) optimization framework, extending it to a multimode transform with nonlinear activation to capture spatiotemporal correlations and low-rankness of the traffic tensor.
Experimental results show that MNT-TNN and its enhancement framework, ATTNNs, outperform existing imputation methods for random missing traffic value imputation.