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Nonlinear Latent Variable Models for Video Sequences

Many high-dimensional time-varying signals can be modeled as a sequence of noisy nonlinear observations of a low-dimensional dynamical process. Given high-dimensional observations and a distribution describing the dynamical process, we present a computationally inexpensive approximate algorithm for estimating the inverse of this mapping. Once this mapping is learned, we can invert it to construct a generative model for the signals. Our algorithm can be thought of as learning a manifold of images by taking into account the dynamics underlying the low-dimensional representation of these images. It also serves as a nonlinear system identification procedure that estimates the inverse of the observation function in nonlinear dynamic system. Our algorithm reduces to a generalized eigenvalue problem, so it does not suffer from the computational or local minimum issues traditionally associated with nonlinear system identification, allowing us to apply it to the problem of learning generative models for video sequences.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/30552
Date06 June 2005
Creatorsrahimi, ali, recht, ben, darrell, trevor
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format11 p., 13801637 bytes, 2196348 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf
RelationMassachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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