Towards class-balancing human comfort datasets with GANs

Abstract

Human comfort datasets are widely used in smart buildings. From thermal comfort prediction to personalized indoor environments, labelled subjective responses from participants in an experiment are required to feed different machine learning models. However, many of these datasets are small in samples per participants, number of participants, or suffer from a class-imbalance of its subjective responses. In this work we explore the use of Generative Adversarial Networks to generate synthetic samples to be used in combination with real ones for data-driven applications in the built environment.