Disentangling Multiple Features in Video Sequences using Gaussian Processes in Variational Autoencoders

We introduce MGP-VAE (Multi-disentangled-features Gaussian Processes Variational AutoEncoder), a variational autoencoder which uses Gaussian processes (GP) to model the latent space for the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations in video sequences. We improve upon previous work by establishing a framework by which multiple features, static or dynamic, can be disentangled. Specifically we use fractional Brownian motions (fBM) and Brownian bridges (BB) to enforce an inter-frame correlation structure in each independent channel, and show that varying this structure enables one to capture different factors of variation in the data. We demonstrate the quality of our representations with experiments on three publicly available datasets, and also quantify the improvement using a video prediction task. Moreover, we introduce a novel geodesic loss function which takes into account the curvature of the data manifold to improve learning. Our experiments show that the combination of the improved representations with the novel loss function enable MGP-VAE to outperform the baselines in video prediction.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Video Prediction Colored dSprites MGP-VAE (with geodesic loss) MSE 4.5 # 1
Video Prediction Sprites MGP-VAE (with geodesic loss) MSE 61.6 # 1

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