I have a problem that I have tried to solve using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to discriminate 1d series of data between two classes. One of the classes have very specific characteristics and are easily distinguishable from a human perspective, the only drawback is that the other class has data with a lot of variation from data sample to data sample, and it looks like it is not feasible to use this as a class at all. I'm only interested in discriminate between data that is from the class of interest (see image under) and all other "uninteresting" data. Then I tried implementing a one class SVM (OC-SVM), and it looks like it works okey but not as well as I had hoped. Therefore I started looking at alternatives, and came across one-class neural networks and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as a possible solution. The Idea is that since the data points that I want to detect has a certain characteristic (see Image under) then an Adversarial network could preform well. I am very new to the field of neural networks and deep learning, so I wanted to ask the community if I am on to something before diving into it. Feel free to come up with alternative methods as well.
Ps: Unsupervised methods and clustering has not worked well solving this problem because of huge variations in the data.
