Rolled Gaussian process models for curves on manifolds
Given a planar curve, imagine rolling a sphere along that curve without slipping or twisting, and by this means tracing out a curve on the sphere. It is well known that such a rolling operation induces a local isometry between the sphere and the plane so that the two curves uniquely determine each other, and moreover, the operation extends to a general class of manifolds in any dimension. We use rolling to construct an analogue of a Gaussian process on a manifold starting from a Euclidean Gaussian process. The resulting model is generative, and is amenable to statistical inference given data as curves on a manifold. We illustrate with examples on the unit sphere, symmetric positive-definite matrices, and with a robotics application involving 3D orientations.
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