8. Autoencoder with Gramian Angular Summation Field for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series Data

Umaporn Yokkampon1, Abbe Mowshowitz2, Sakmongkon Chumkamon1, Eiji Hayashi1
1Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan
2Department of Computer Science, The City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
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ABSTRACT
Uncertainty is ubiquitous in data and constitutes a challenge in real-life data analysis applications. To deal with this challenge, we propose a novel method for detecting anomalies in time series data based on the Autoencoder method, which encodes a multivariate time series as images by means of the Gramian Angular Summation Field (GASF). Multivariate time series data is represented as 2D image data to enhance the performance of anomaly detection. The proposed method is validated with four time-series data sets. Experimental results show that our proposed method can improve validity and accuracy on all criteria. Therefore, effective anomaly detection in multivariate time series data can be achieved by combining the methods of Autoencoder and Gramian Angular Summation Field.

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Article History
Received 26 November 2021
Accepted 23 April 2022

Keywords
Anomaly detection
Factory automation
Autoencoder
Multivariate time series

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