Online Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Process Experts with Application to Tactile Classification
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Author(s)
Soh, Harold
Su, Yanyu
Demiris, Yiannis
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In this work, we are primarily concerned with robotic systems that learn online and continuously from multi-variate data-streams. Our first contribution is a new recursive kernel, which we have integrated into a sparse Gaussian Process to yield the Spatio-Temporal Online Recursive Kernel Gaussian Process (STORK-GP). This algorithm iteratively learns from time-series, providing both predictions and uncertainty estimates. Experiments on benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves high accuracies relative to state-of-the-art methods. Second, we contribute an online tactile classifier which uses an array of STORK-GP experts. In contrast to existing work, our classifier is capable of learning new objects as they are presented, improving itself over time. We show that our approach yields results comparable to highly-optimised offline classification methods. Moreover, we conducted experiments with human subjects in a similar online setting with true-label feedback and present the insights gained.
Date Issued
2012-10
Citation
2012, pp.4489-4496
ISBN
978-1-4673-1737-5
ISSN
2153-0858
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
4489
End Page
4496
Journal / Book Title
2012 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Copyright Statement
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16/01/14 meb. conference paper, pre-print version OK to add.
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Source
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
Source Place
Vilamoura, Portugal.
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2012-10-07
Finish Date
2012-10-12
Coverage Spatial
Vilamoura, Portugal