Imputation of missing data for dam deformation based on bidirectional spatiotemporal generative adversarial network
摘要
Due to anomalies that occur during data collection, transmission, or storage process in dam health monitoring, deformation data are often incomplete. Accurate imputation of missing deformation data is crucial for assessing dam safety status. While deformation data exhibit spatiotemporal correlations, most existing imputation methods fail to adequately integrate these correlational patterns. To address this issue, this paper proposes a missing deformation data imputation method based on bidirectional spatiotemporal imputation. This method first extracts forward and backward temporal dependency using recurrent neural network, and then integrates spatial relationships among adjacent monitoring points with multilayer perceptron. These imputation results are subsequently combined through an adaptive mechanism. Furthermore, the proposed method is trained within a generative adversarial framework to ensure that imputation results faithfully reproduce the distribution of observed data. Engineering case study demonstrates that the proposed method achieves superior imputation accuracy with high robustness to missing rates. Moreover, the imputed data significantly improve the performance of downstream tasks, including deformation prediction and anomaly detection, providing a reliable data foundation for comprehensive dam safety assessment.