3DVAE-ERSG: 3D Variational Autoencoder for Extremely Rare Signal Generation

Abstract

Data generation is not data augmentation. Our data generation is a new technique that can synthesize a dataset from a very small number of samples and ensure the quality of its outputs. Recently, this concept has been proposed and applied in a framework called Data Generation Framework for Extremely Rare Case Signals (DGERS) to solve a problem of a limited number of anomaly signals. With the power of DGERS consisting of principal components, including various data augmentation techniques on diverse domains, Signal Fragment Assembler (SFA), Variational Autoencoder (VAE), Data Picker (DP), and Quality Classifier (QC), the generated dataset had the good quality, when evaluated with a performance tester. Nevertheless, the DGERS has not used the full potential of VAE yet. The previous framework used the VAE latent space in only two dimensions. To use a higher potential of VAE, this paper proposed a 3D Variational Autoencoder for Extremely Rare Signal Generation (3DVAE-ERSG). This method increases the dimension of the latent space from 2D to 3D. We also proposed the 3D Data Picker for data exploration. To test this hypothesis, we experimented with the same datasets that the DGERS method was tested before. The results show that our 3DVAE-ERSG can outperform the baseline in most cases.