Towards Real-Time Information Processing of Sensor Network Data using Computationally Efficient Multi-output Gaussian Processes

Osborne, M. A., Rogers, A., Ramchurn, S., Roberts, S. J. and Jennings, N. R. (2008) Towards Real-Time Information Processing of Sensor Network Data using Computationally Efficient Multi-output Gaussian Processes. In: International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008), April 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. pp. 109-120.

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a novel, computationally efficient algorithm that facilitates the autonomous acquisition of readings from sensor networks (deciding when and which sensor to acquire readings from at any time), and which can, with minimal domain knowledge, perform a range of information processing tasks including modelling the accuracy of the sensor readings, predicting the value of missing sensor readings, and predicting how the monitored environmental variables will evolve into the future. Our motivating scenario is the need to provide situational awareness support to first responders at the scene of a large scale incident, and to this end, we describe a novel iterative formulation of a multi-output Gaussian process that can build and exploit a probabilistic model of the environmental variables being measured (including the correlations and delays that exist between them). We validate our approach using data collected from a network of weather sensors located on the south coast of England.

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