Gaussian Process Dynamical Models

Abstract

This paper introduces Gaussian Process Dynamical Models (GPDM) for nonlinear time series analysis. A GPDM comprises a low-dimensional latent space with associated dynamics, and a map from the latent space to an observation space. We marginalize out the model parameters in closed-form, using Gaussian Process (GP) priors for both the dynamics and the observation mappings. This results in a nonparametric model for dynamical systems that accounts for uncertainty in the model. We demonstrate the approach on human motion capture data in which each pose is 62-dimensional. Despite the use of small data sets, the GPDM learns an effective representation of the nonlinear dynamics in these spaces. Webpage: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/

Cite

Text

Wang et al. "Gaussian Process Dynamical Models." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005.

Markdown

[Wang et al. "Gaussian Process Dynamical Models." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2005/wang2005neurips-gaussian/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wang2005neurips-gaussian,
  title     = {{Gaussian Process Dynamical Models}},
  author    = {Wang, Jack and Hertzmann, Aaron and Fleet, David J},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2005},
  pages     = {1441-1448},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2005/wang2005neurips-gaussian/}
}