Topologically-Constrained Latent Variable Models

author: Raquel Urtasun, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
published: July 29, 2008,   recorded: July 2008,   views: 11301
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In dimensionality reduction approaches, the data are typically embedded in a Euclidean latent space. However for some data sets this is inappropriate. For example, in human motion data we expect latent spaces that are cylindrical or a toroidal, that are poorly captured with a Euclidean space. In this paper, we present a range of approaches for embedding data in a non-Euclidean latent space. Our focus is the Gaussian Process latent variable model. In the context of human motion modeling this allows us to (a) learn models with interpretable latent directions enabling, for example, style/content separation, and (b) generalize beyond the data set enabling us to learn transitions between motion styles even though such transitions are not present in the data

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