@inproceedings{
wang2024finegrained,
title={Fine-grained Control of Generative Data Augmentation in IoT Sensing},
author={Tianshi Wang and Qikai Yang and Ruijie Wang and Dachun Sun and Jinyang Li and Yizhuo Chen and Yigong Hu and Chaoqi Yang and Tomoyoshi Kimura and Denizhan Kara and Tarek F. Abdelzaher},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=ZCygNDMIII}
}
Internet of Things (IoT) sensing models often suffer from overfitting due to data distribution shifts between training dataset and real-world scenarios. To address this, data augmentation techniques have been adopted to enhance model robustness by bolstering the diversity of synthetic samples within a defined vicinity of existing samples. This paper introduces a novel paradigm of data augmentation for IoT sensing signals by adding fine-grained control to generative models. We define a metric space with statistical metrics that capture the essential features of the short-time Fourier transformed (STFT) spectrograms of IoT sensing signals. These metrics serve as strong conditions for a generative model, enabling us to tailor the spectrogram characteristics in the time-frequency domain according to specific application needs. Furthermore, we propose a set of data augmentation techniques within this metric space to create new data samples. Our method is evaluated across various generative models, datasets, and downstream IoT sensing models. The results demonstrate that our approach surpasses the conventional transformation-based data augmentation techniques and prior generative data augmentation models.
Fine-grained Control of Generative Data Augmentation in IoT Sensing
Tianshi Wang Qikai Yang Ruijie Wang Dachun Sun Jinyang Li Yizhuo Chen Yigong Hu Chaoqi Yang Tomoyoshi Kimura Denizhan Kara Tarek F. Abdelzaher