Conference paper
Diffeomorphic Temporal Alignment Nets
Time-series analysis is confounded by nonlinear time warping of the data. Traditional methods for joint alignment do not generalize: after aligning a given signal ensemble, they lack a mechanism, that does not require solving a new optimization problem, to align previously-unseen signals. In the multi-class case, they must also first classify the test data before aligning it.
Here we propose the Diffeomorphic Temporal Alignment Net (DTAN), a learning-based method for time-series joint alignment. Via flexible temporal transformer layers, DTAN learns and applies an input-dependent nonlinear time warping to its input signal. Once learned, DTAN easily aligns previously-unseen signals by its inexpensive forward pass.
In a single-class case, the method is unsupervised: the ground-truth alignments are unknown. In the multi-class case, it is semi-supervised in the sense that class labels (but not the ground-truth alignments) are used during learning; in test time, however, the class labels are unknown. As we show, DTAN not only outperforms existing joint-alignment methods in aligning training data but also generalizes well to test data.
Our code is available at https://github.com/BGU-CS-VIL/dtan.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation |
Year: | 2019 |
Proceedings: | 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing SystemsConference on Neural Information Processing Systems |
Series: | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems |
ISSN: | 10495258 |
Types: | Conference paper |
ORCIDs: | Detlefsen, Nicki Skafte |