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Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a method for extracting slowly varying driving forces from quickly varying nonstationary time series. We show here that it is possible for SFA to detect a component which is even slower than the driving force…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-11-24 Wolfgang Konen , Patrick Koch

Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) extracts features representing the underlying causes of changes within a temporally coherent high-dimensional raw sensory input signal. Our novel incremental version of SFA (IncSFA) combines incremental Principal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Varun Raj Kompella , Matthew Luciw , Juergen Schmidhuber

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a new technique for extracting slowly varying features from a quickly varying signal. It is shown here that SFA can be applied to nonstationary time series to estimate a single underlying driving force with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurenz Wiskott

We propose Power Slow Feature Analysis, a gradient-based method to extract temporally slow features from a high-dimensional input stream that varies on a faster time-scale, as a variant of Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) that allows end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Merlin Schüler , Hlynur Davíð Hlynsson , Laurenz Wiskott

Dynamic textures exist in various forms, e.g., fire, smoke, and traffic jams, but recognizing dynamic texture is challenging due to the complex temporal variations. In this paper, we present a novel approach stemmed from slow feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Jie Miao , Xiangmin Xu , Xiaofen Xing , Dacheng Tao

Learning latent features from time series data is an important problem in both machine learning and brain function. One approach, called Slow Feature Analysis (SFA), leverages the slowness of many salient features relative to the rapidly…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-27 David Lipshutz , Charlie Windolf , Siavash Golkar , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

Unlike conventional frame-based sensors, event-based visual sensors output information through spikes at a high temporal resolution. By only encoding changes in pixel intensity, they showcase a low-power consuming, low-latency approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Rohan Ghosh , Anupam Gupta , Siyi Tang , Alcimar Soares , Nitish Thakor

Slow Feature Analysis is a unsupervised representation learning method that extracts slowly varying features from temporal data and can be used as a basis for subsequent reinforcement learning. Often, the behavior that generates the data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Merlin Schüler , Eddie Seabrook , Laurenz Wiskott

This work presents a novel probabilistic interpretation of Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) through the lens of variational inference. Unlike prior formulations that recover linear SFA from Gaussian state-space models with linear emissions, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Merlin Schüler , Laurenz Wiskott

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised method for extracting representations from time series data. The successor representation (SR) is a method for representing states in a Markov decision process (MDP) based on transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Eddie Seabrook , Laurenz Wiskott

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised-learning algorithm that extracts slowly varying features from a multi-dimensional time series. A supervised extension to SFA for classification and regression is graph-based SFA (GSFA). GSFA is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Laurenz Wiskott

Visual navigation requires a whole range of capabilities. A crucial one of these is the ability of an agent to determine its own location and heading in an environment. Prior works commonly assume this information as given, or use methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Moritz Lange , Raphael C. Engelhardt , Wolfgang Konen , Laurenz Wiskott

Change detection has been a hotspot in remote sensing technology for a long time. With the increasing availability of multi-temporal remote sensing images, numerous change detection algorithms have been proposed. Among these methods, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Bo Du , Lixiang Ru , Chen Wu , Liangpei Zhang

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a method for extracting slowly varying features from a quickly varying multidimensional signal. An open source Matlab-implementation sfa-tk makes SFA easily useable. We show here that under certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-08 Wolfgang Konen

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised learning algorithm that extracts slowly varying features from a time series. Graph-based SFA (GSFA) is a supervised extension that can solve regression problems if followed by a post-processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Laurenz Wiskott

In this paper, we show that slow feature analysis (SFA), a common time series decomposition method, naturally fits into the flow-based models (FBM) framework, a type of invertible neural latent variable models. Building upon recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Edouard Pineau , Sébastien Razakarivony , Thomas Bonald

In recent year, tremendous strides have been made in face detection thanks to deep learning. However, most published face detectors deteriorate dramatically as the faces become smaller. In this paper, we present the Small Faces Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shi Luo , Xiongfei Li , Rui Zhu , Xiaoli Zhang

Benefiting from its succinctness and robustness, skeleton-based action recognition has recently attracted much attention. Most existing methods utilize local networks (e.g., recurrent, convolutional, and graph convolutional networks) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Guyue Hu , Bo Cui , Shan Yu

Most action recognition solutions rely on dense sampling to precisely cover the informative temporal clip. Extensively searching temporal region is expensive for a real-world application. In this work, we focus on improving the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Chunhui Liu , Xinyu Li , Hao Chen , Davide Modolo , Joseph Tighe

Transformers are state-of-the-art models for a variety of sequence modeling tasks. At their core is an attention function which models pairwise interactions between the inputs at every timestep. While attention is powerful, it does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Hao Peng , Nikolaos Pappas , Dani Yogatama , Roy Schwartz , Noah A. Smith , Lingpeng Kong
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