Abstract—Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a machine learning method for extracting slowly time-varying feature from multi-dimensional time series data. Recently, probabilistic SFA (PSFA) that extends SFA to a probabilistic framework has been proposed. The PSFA can be applied to stationary time series data with noise and missing values. In order to deal with non-stationary time series data including change points, we propose a switching probabilistic slow feature analysis (switching PSFA) in this paper. By introducing a switching state space model, it is possible to extract slowly varying information even when system parameters change with time. Using the proposed method, we show that slowly time-varying components can be extracted more accurately from time-series data with non-stationarity.
Index Terms—Slow feature analysis, switching state space model, Bayesian time series analysis, statistical machine learning.
The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501 Japan (e-mail: omori@eedept.kobe-u.ac.jp).
Cite: Kazuki Tsujimoto and Toshiaki Omori, "Switching Probabilistic Slow Feature Analysis for Time Series Data," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 740-745, 2020.
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