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Time series are high-dimensional and complex data objects, making their efficient search and indexing a longstanding challenge in data mining. Building on a recently introduced similarity measure, namely Multiscale Dubuc Distance (MDD),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Azim Ahmadzadeh , Mahsa Khazaei , Elaina Rohlfing

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

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

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

This paper addresses learning end-to-end models for time series data that include a temporal alignment step via dynamic time warping (DTW). Existing approaches to differentiable DTW either differentiate through a fixed warping path or apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ming Xu , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Stephen Gould

With the increase of available time series data, predicting their class labels has been one of the most important challenges in a wide range of disciplines. Recent studies on time series classification show that convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Dongha Lee , Seonghyeon Lee , Hwanjo Yu

Measuring distance or similarity between time-series data is a fundamental aspect of many applications including classification, clustering, and ensembling/alignment. Existing measures may fail to capture similarities among local trends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ajitesh Srivastava

Many smart grid applications involve data mining, clustering, classification, identification, and anomaly detection, among others. These applications primarily depend on the measurement of similarity, which is the distance between different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Rui Yuan , Hossein Ranjbar , S. Ali Pourmousavi , Wen L. Soong , Andrew J. Black , Jon A. R. Liisberg , Julian Lemos-Vinasco

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is an algorithm to align temporal sequences with possible local non-linear distortions, and has been widely applied to audio, video and graphics data alignments. DTW is essentially a point-to-point matching method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jiaping Zhao , Laurent Itti

Time series classification is an important data mining task that has received a lot of interest in the past two decades. Due to the label scarcity in practice, semi-supervised time series classification with only a few labeled samples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Wenjie Xi , Arnav Jain , Li Zhang , Jessica Lin

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a well-known similarity measure for time series. The standard dynamic programming approach to compute the DTW distance of two length-$n$ time series, however, requires~$O(n^2)$ time, which is often too slow for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Maciej Rymar , Mathias Weller

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

We introduce a weakly supervised method for representation learning based on aligning temporal sequences (e.g., videos) of the same process (e.g., human action). The main idea is to use the global temporal ordering of latent correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Isma Hadji , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Allan D. Jepson

Neural networks have become a powerful tool in pattern recognition and part of their success is due to generalization from using large datasets. However, unlike other domains, time series classification datasets are often small. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

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

Soft dynamic time warping (SDTW) is a differentiable loss function that allows for training neural networks from weakly aligned data. Typically, SDTW is used to iteratively compute and refine soft alignments that compensate for temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Johannes Zeitler , Simon Deniffel , Michael Krause , Meinard Müller

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

Over the last decade, time series motif discovery has emerged as a useful primitive for many downstream analytical tasks, including clustering, classification, rule discovery, segmentation, and summarization. In parallel, there has been an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sara Alaee , Kaveh Kamgar , Eamonn Keogh

The classification of time series data is a well-studied problem with numerous practical applications, such as medical diagnosis and speech recognition. A popular and effective approach is to classify new time series in the same way as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ricards Marcinkevics , Steven Kelk , Carlo Galuzzi , Berthold Stegemann

Research on time-series similarity measures has emphasized the need for elastic methods which align the indices of pairs of time series and a plethora of non-parametric have been proposed for the task. On the other hand, deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme