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Continuous Dynamic Time Warping (CDTW) measures the similarity of polygonal curves robustly to outliers and to sampling rates, but the design and analysis of CDTW algorithms face multiple challenges. We show that CDTW cannot be computed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Jan Erik Swiadek , Sampson Wong

We investigate metric learning in the context of dynamic time warping (DTW), the by far most popular dissimilarity measure used for the comparison and analysis of motion capture data. While metric learning enables a problem-adapted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

The similarity between a pair of time series, i.e., sequences of indexed values in time order, is often estimated by the dynamic time warping (DTW) distance, instead of any in the well-studied family of measures including the longest common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yoshifumi Sakai , Shunsuke Inenaga

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is used for matching pairs of sequences and celebrated in applications such as forecasting the evolution of time series, clustering time series or even matching sequence pairs in few-shot action recognition. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Lei Wang , Piotr Koniusz

Online signature verification is the process of verifying time series signature data which is generally obtained from the tablet-based device. Unlike offline signature images, the online signature image data consists of points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Azhar Ahmad Jaini , Ghazali Sulong , Amjad Rehman

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

Computing the discrepancy between time series of variable sizes is notoriously challenging. While dynamic time warping (DTW) is popularly used for this purpose, it is not differentiable everywhere and is known to lead to bad local optima…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Mathieu Blondel , Arthur Mensch , Jean-Philippe Vert

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

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a well-known algorithm for time series elastic dissimilarity measure. Its ability to deal with non-linear time distortions makes it helpful in variety of data mining tasks. Such a task is also anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Matej Kloska , Gabriela Grmanova , Viera Rozinajova

Continuous Dynamic Time Warping (CDTW) is a robust similarity measure for polygonal curves that has recently found a variety of applications. Despite its practical use, not much is known about the algorithmic complexity of computing it in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Jan Erik Swiadek , Sampson Wong

There has been renewed recent interest in developing effective lower bounds for Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance between time series. These have many applications in time series indexing, clustering, forecasting, regression and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Chang Wei Tan , Francois Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

Dynamic time warping distance (DTW) is a widely used distance measure between time series $x, y \in \Sigma^n$. It was shown by Abboud, Backurs, and Williams that in the \emph{binary case}, where $|\Sigma| = 2$, DTW can be computed in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-06 William Kuszmaul

The dynamic time warping (dtw) distance is an established tool for mining time series data. The DTW-Mean problem consists of computing a series which minimizes the so-called Fr\'echet function, that is, the sum of squared dtw-distances to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Vincent Froese , Christoph Hansknecht

Dynamic time warping ($\texttt{DTW}$) is one of the most used distance functions to compare time series, e.$\,$g. in nearest neighbor classifiers. Yet, fast state of the art algorithms only compare 1-dimensional time series efficiently. One…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Jörg P. Bachmann , Johann-Christoph Freytag

Where dealing with temporal sequences it is fair to assume that the same kind of deformations that motivated the development of the Dynamic Time Warp algorithm could be relevant also in the calculation of the dot product ("convolution") in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Yaniv Shulman

The dynamic time warping (dtw) distance fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and the identity of indiscernibles. As a consequence, the dtw-distance is not warping-invariant, which in turn results in peculiarities in data mining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Brijnesh J. Jain

Measuring similarities between unlabeled time series trajectories is an important problem in domains as diverse as medicine, astronomy, finance, and computer vision. It is often unclear what is the appropriate metric to use because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Abubakar Abid , James Zou

We study variants of the mean problem under the $p$-Dynamic Time Warping ($p$-DTW) distance, a popular and robust distance measure for sequential data. In our setting we are given a set of finite point sequences over an arbitrary metric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Koen van Greevenbroek , Ioannis Psarros , Dennis Rohde

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

In this proof of concept, we use Computer Vision (CV) methods to extract pose information out of exercise videos. We then employ a modified version of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to calculate the deviation from a gold standard execution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Sebastian Dill , Maurice Rohr