{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Imaging Time-Series to Improve Classification and Imputation","authors":[{"name":"Zhiguang Wang","slug":"zhiguang-wang","given":"Zhiguang","family":"Wang","affiliation":""},{"name":"Tim Oates","slug":"tim-oates","given":"Tim","family":"Oates","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Inspired by recent successes of deep learning in computer vision, we propose a novel framework for encoding time series as different types of images, namely, Gramian Angular Summation/Difference Fields (GASF/GADF) and Markov Transition Fields (MTF). This enables the use of techniques from computer vision for time series classification and imputation. We used Tiled Convolutional Neural Networks (tiled CNNs) on 20 standard datasets to learn high-level features from the individual and compound GASF-GADF-MTF images. Our approaches achieve highly competitive results when compared to nine of the current best time series classification approaches. Inspired by the bijection property of GASF on 0/1 rescaled data, we train Denoised Auto-encoders (DA) on the GASF images of four standard and one synthesized compound dataset. The imputation MSE on test data is reduced by 12.18% – 48.02% when compared to using the raw data. An analysis of the features and weights learned via tiled CNNs and DAs explains why the approaches work.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/553","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0553.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/553.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/553","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Special Track on Machine Learning","track":"Special Track on Machine Learning","number":553,"pages":{"first":3939,"last":3944},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}