Sparse Gaussian Process for Spatial Function Estimation with Mobile Sensor Networks

Gaussian process (GP) is well researched and used in machine learning field. Comparing with artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector regression (SVR), it provides additional covariance information for regression results. By exploiting this feature, an uncertainty based locational optimisation strategy combining with an entropy based data selection method for mobile sensor networks is presented in this paper. Centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) is used as a locational optimisation framework and Informative Vector Machine (IVM) is applied for data selection. Simulations with different locational optimisation criteria are conducted and the results are given, which proved the effectiveness of presented strategy.