Time series classification based on Unet with 2D transformation

Time series classification has gained significant attention in the data mining field in recent years. Despite the proposal of numerous methods over the past decades, most of these approaches focus on feature extraction in one-dimensional space, which often results in lower classification accuracy. To address this issue, this paper proposes a Time Series Classification method based on U-Net with 2D transformation (TSC-Unet). This method first transforms univariate time series into 2D space and augments the data, effectively enhancing the diversity of the dataset. Subsequently, features are extracted from the 2D space using a fully convolutional network, fully exploiting multi-scale feature information. U-Netwith skip connections, effectively retains and transmits high-resolution features, significantly reducing information loss and improving segmentation performance. Additionally, the ability to learn multi-scale features enables the model to capture details at different levels, thereby enhancing its understanding of complex data. Experimental results demonstrate that TSC-Unet achieves high classification accuracy on the UCR datasets, validating the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.