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Many applications generate and consume temporal data and retrieval of time series is a key processing step in many application domains. Dynamic time warping (DTW) distance between time series of size N and M is computed relying on a dynamic…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 K. Selçuk Candan , Rosaria Rossini , Maria Luisa Sapino , Xiaolan Wang

This paper contributes multivariate versions of seven commonly used elastic similarity and distance measures for time series data analytics. Elastic similarity and distance measures are a class of similarity measures that can compensate for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ahmed Shifaz , Charlotte Pelletier , Francois Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

The paper presents a novel method of finding a fragment in a long temporal sequence similar to the set of shorter sequences. We are the first to propose an algorithm for such a search that does not rely on computing the average sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Łukasz Borchmann , Dawid Jurkiewicz , Filip Graliński , Tomasz Górecki

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular similarity measure between time series. The DTW fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and its computation requires quadratic time. Hence, to find closest neighbors quickly, we use bounding…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-10-07 Daniel Lemire

Many tasks in music information retrieval (MIR) involve weakly aligned data, where exact temporal correspondences are unknown. The connectionist temporal classification (CTC) loss is a standard technique to learn feature representations…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Michael Krause , Christof Weiß , Meinard Müller

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is a popular similarity measure for polygonal curves (i.e., sequences of points). It finds many theoretical and practical applications, especially for temporal data, and is known to be a robust,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Karl Bringmann , Nick Fischer , Ivor van der Hoog , Evangelos Kipouridis , Tomasz Kociumaka , Eva Rotenberg

We propose to learn multiple local Mahalanobis distance metrics to perform k-nearest neighbor (kNN) classification of temporal sequences. Temporal sequences are first aligned by dynamic time warping (DTW); given the alignment path,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Jiaping Zhao , Zerong Xi , Laurent Itti

Dynamic time warping distance (DTW) is a widely used distance measure between time series. The best known algorithms for computing DTW run in near quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds prohibit the existence of significantly faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 William Kuszmaul

Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) is a widely used algorithm for measuring similarities between two time series. It is especially valuable in a wide variety of applications, such as clustering, anomaly detection, classification, or video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hugo Lerogeron , Romain Picot-Clemente , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Laurent Heutte

In recent years, neural networks achieved much success in various applications. The main challenge in training deep neural networks is the lack of sufficient data to improve the model's generalization and avoid overfitting. One of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Mohammad Akyash , Hoda Mohammadzade , Hamid Behroozi

The proliferation and ubiquity of temporal data across many disciplines has sparked interest for similarity, classification and clustering methods specifically designed to handle time series data. A core issue when dealing with time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Iñigo Martinez

Dictionary learning is an effective tool for pattern recognition and classification of time series data. Among various dictionary learning techniques, the dynamic time warping (DTW) is commonly used for dealing with temporal delays,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-03 Ruiyu Xu , Chao Wang , Yongxiang Li , Jianguo Wu

Time Series Alignment is a critical task in signal processing with numerous real-world applications. In practice, signals often exhibit temporal shifts and scaling, making classification on raw data prone to errors. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Alireza Nourbakhsh , Hoda Mohammadzade

Fast and scalable alignment of time series is a fundamental challenge in many domains. The standard solution, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), struggles with poor scalability and sensitivity to noise. We introduce TimePoint, a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ron Shapira Weber , Shahar Ben Ishay , Andrey Lavrinenko , Shahaf E. Finder , Oren Freifeld

Elastic distances like dynamic time warping (DTW) are central to time series machine learning because they compare sequences under local temporal misalignment. Soft-DTW is an adaptation of DTW that can be used as a gradient-based loss by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular similarity measure between time series. The DTW fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and its computation requires quadratic time. Hence, to find closest neighbors quickly, we use bounding…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Daniel Lemire

The literature postulates that the dynamic time warping (dtw) distance can cope with temporal variations but stores and processes time series in a form as if the dtw-distance cannot cope with such variations. To address this inconsistency,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Brijnesh Jain

We propose in this paper a differentiable learning loss between time series, building upon the celebrated dynamic time warping (DTW) discrepancy. Unlike the Euclidean distance, DTW can compare time series of variable size and is robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Marco Cuturi , Mathieu Blondel

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is widely used to align time series evolving on mismatched timescales, yet most applications reduce alignment to a scalar distance. We introduce warp quantification analysis (WQA), a framework that derives…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sir-Lord Wiafe , Vince D. Calhoun

Pointwise matches between two time series are of great importance in time series analysis, and dynamic time warping (DTW) is known to provide generally reasonable matches. There are situations where time series alignment should be invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Tsu-Wei Chen , Meena Abdelmaseeh , Daniel Stashuk