Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder-Based Compressive Sampling Method for Time Series in Structural Health Monitoring

Ge Liang, Zhenglin Ji (), Qunhong Zhong, Yong Huang and Kun Han
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Ge Liang: Elite Engineers School, Harbin Institute of Technology, 92 Xidazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China
Zhenglin Ji: Elite Engineers School, Harbin Institute of Technology, 92 Xidazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China
Qunhong Zhong: Key Laboratory of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, China
Yong Huang: Key Laboratory of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, China
Kun Han: Key Laboratory of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 73 Huanghe Road, Harbin 150090, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-20

Abstract: The theory of compressive sampling (CS) has revolutionized data compression technology by capitalizing on the inherent sparsity of a signal to enable signal recovery from significantly far fewer samples than what is required by the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem. Recent advancement in deep generative models, which can represent high-dimension data in a low-dimension latent space efficiently when trained with big data, has been used to further reduce the sample size for image data compressive sampling. However, compressive sampling for 1D time series data has not significantly benefited from this technological progress. In this study, we investigate the application of different architectures of deep neural networks suitable for time series data compression and propose an efficient method to solve the compressive sampling problem on one-dimensional (1D) structural health monitoring (SHM) data, based on block CS and the vector quantized–variational autoencoder model with a naïve multitask paradigm (VQ-VAE-M). The proposed method utilizes VQ-VAE-M to learn the data characteristics of the signal, replaces the “hard constraint” of sparsity to realize the compressive sampling signal reconstruction and thereby does not need to select the appropriate sparse basis for the signal. A comparative analysis against various CS methods and other deep neural network models was performed in both synthetic data and real-world data from two real bridges in China. The results have demonstrated the superiority of the proposed method, with achieving the smallest reconstruction error of 0.038, 0.034 and 0.021, and the highest reconstruction accuracy of 0.882, 0.892 and 0.936 for compression ratios of 4.0, 2.66, and 2.0, respectively.

Keywords: compressive sampling; deep learning; deep generative models; vector quantized–variational autoencoder; time series; structural health monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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