Imbalanced Aircraft Data Anomaly Detection
Hao Yang Junyu Gao Yuan Yuan Xuelong Li
Anomaly detection in temporal data from sensors under aviation scenarios is a
practical but challenging task: 1) long temporal data is difficult to extract
contextual information with temporal correlation; 2) the anomalous data are
rare in time series, causing normal/abnormal imbalance in anomaly detection,
making the detector classification degenerate or even fail. To remedy the
aforementioned problems, we propose a Graphical Temporal Data Analysis (GTDA)
framework. It consists three modules, named Series-to-Image (S2I),
Cluster-based Resampling Approach using Euclidean Distance (CRD) and
Variance-Based Loss (VBL). Specifically, for better extracts global information
in temporal data from sensors, S2I converts the data to curve images to
demonstrate abnormalities in data changes. CRD and VBL balance the
classification to mitigate the unequal distribution of classes. CRD extracts
minority samples with similar features to majority samples by clustering and
over-samples them. And VBL fine-tunes the decision boundary by balancing the
fitting degree of the network to each class. Ablation experiments on the
Flights dataset indicate the effectiveness of CRD and VBL on precision and
recall, respectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate the synergistic
advantages of CRD and VBL on F1-score on Flights and three other temporal
datasets.