17th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium.
Modeling pigeon behaviour using a Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machine
Matthew D. Zeiler, Graham W. Taylor, Nikolaus F. Troje and Geoffrey E. Hinton
In an effort to better understand the complex courtship behaviour of pigeons, we have built a model learned from motion capture data. We employ a Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (CRBM) with binary latent features and real-valued visible units. The units are conditioned on information from previous time steps to capture dynamics. We validate a trained model by quantifying the characteristic “headbobbing” present in pigeons. We also show how to predict missing data by marginalizing out the hidden variables and minimizing free energy.