Path Advisor: A Multi-Functional Campus Map Tool for Shortest Path

Summary: Path Advisor is a web-based campus map tool that visualizes shortest paths in 2D, bird's-eye, and VR views. It handles obstacles and realism by using Dijkstra plus BFS for 2D, and a weighted shortest-surface path algorithm for the 3D views. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12634
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.4119882e-05
Overall Rank: 8,526 | 41.51%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476319

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yinzhao Yan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yan_vldb21,
        title = {{Path Advisor: A Multi-Functional Campus Map Tool for Shortest Path}},
        author = {Yan, Yinzhao and Wong, Raymond Chi-Wing},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2683--2686},
        doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476319},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476319},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,213	Constrained Shortest Path Finding on Terrain Surfaces	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,314	Efficient Proximity Queries on Simplified Height Maps	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,156	Proximity Queries on Point Clouds using Rapid Construction Path Oracle	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,993	Distance Oracle on Terrain Surface	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,194	Terrain-Toolkit: A Multi-Functional Tool for Terrain Data	2014	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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