Augmenting Radar Data via Sampling from Learned Latent Space

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Abstract

Data augmentation is a widely used technique to regularize deep learning models. It is especially famous in computer vision due to its simplicity to apply. Literature suggests numerous ways of transforming images without changing the characteristic semantics. However, for data coming from sensors such as radar these approaches are not applicable leading to data augmentation being not commonly performed. To solve this problem and close the gap we investigate how a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) can be trained on radar data to sample from the learned latent space and use the resulting data to regularize the training of a classifier. We run our experiments on two radar gesture datasets and show that the introduction of generated data can increase generalization. We investigate whether the learned embedded space is sufficient and propose how to sample from the latent space while preserving labels for successful supervised training.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Artificial Intelligence, CCAI 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages120-126
Number of pages7
ISBN (electronic)979-8-3503-3526-2
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Artificial Intelligence, CCAI 2023
Duration26 - 28 May 2023
CityTaiyuan
CountryChina

Keywords

Keywords

  • artificial intelligence, data augmentation, radar, regularization, variational autoencoder