Dual-stream CNN for Structured Time Series Classification

Wenbo Li

Abstract: The structured time series (STS) classification problem requires the modeling of interweaved spatiotemporal dependency. Most previous methods model these two dependencies independently. Due to the complexity of the STS data, we argue that a desirable method should be a holistic framework that is adaptive and flexible. This motivates us to design a deep neural network with such merits. Inspired by the dual-stream hypothesis in neural science, we propose a novel dual-stream framework for modeling the interweaved spatiotemporal dependency, and develop a convolutional neural network within this framework that aims to achieve high adaptability and flexibility in STS configurations of sequential order and dependency range. Our model is highly modularized and scalable, making it easy to be adapted to specific tasks. The effectiveness of our model is demonstrated through experiments on benchmark datasets for skeleton based activity recognition.