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Aligning structured data is a fundamental problem in computer vision and machine learning, underlying tasks such as time series analysis, human action recognition, and visual representation learning. Existing alignment methods, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Wang , Syuan-Hao Li , Yongsheng Gao , Piotr Koniusz

We present algorithms for the computation of $\varepsilon$-coresets for $k$-median clustering of point sequences in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the $p$-dynamic time warping (DTW) distance. Coresets under DTW have not been investigated before, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jacobus Conradi , Benedikt Kolbe , Ioannis Psarros , Dennis Rohde

Similarity measures for time series are important problems for time series classification. To handle the nonlinear time distortions, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) has been widely used. However, DTW is not learnable and suffers from a trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Shinnosuke Matsuo , Xiaomeng Wu , Gantugs Atarsaikhan , Akisato Kimura , Kunio Kashino , Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

Time series data can be found in almost every domain, ranging from the medical field to manufacturing and wireless communication. Generating realistic and useful exemplars and prototypes is a fundamental data analysis task. In this paper,…

The Random Walks (RW) algorithm is one of the most e - cient and easy-to-use probabilistic segmentation methods. By combining contrast terms with prior terms, it provides accurate segmentations of medical images in a fully automated manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Pierre-Yves Baudin , Danny Goodman , Puneet Kumar , Noura Azzabou , Pierre G. Carlier , Nikos Paragios , M. Pawan Kumar

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

We propose a novel random walk-based algorithm for unbiased estimation of arbitrary functions of a weighted adjacency matrix, coined universal graph random features (u-GRFs). This includes many of the most popular examples of kernels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-27 Isaac Reid , Krzysztof Choromanski , Eli Berger , Adrian Weller

The concept of sample mean in dynamic time warping (DTW) spaces has been successfully applied to improve pattern recognition systems and generalize centroid-based clustering algorithms. Its existence has neither been proved nor challenged.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Brijnesh J. Jain , David Schultz

1-Nearest Neighbor with the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is one of the most effective classifiers on time series domain. Since the global constraint has been introduced in speech community, many global constraint models have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Vit Niennattrakul , Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana

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

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

This paper introduces $k$-Dynamic Time Warping ($k$-DTW), a novel dissimilarity measure for polygonal curves. $k$-DTW has stronger metric properties than Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and is more robust to outliers than the Fr\'{e}chet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amer Krivošija , Alexander Munteanu , André Nusser , Chris Schwiegelshohn

The Dynamic Time Warping ("DTW") distance is widely used in time series analysis, be it for classification, clustering or similarity search. However, its quadratic time complexity prevents it from scaling. Strategies, based on early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Matthieu Herrmann , 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

Temporal alignment of sequences is a fundamental challenge in many applications, such as computer vision and bioinformatics, where local time shifting needs to be accounted for. Misalignment can lead to poor model generalization, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Afek Steinberg , Ran Eisenberg , Ofir Lindenbaum

In this paper, we propose a method of improving temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) by determining the optimal alignment of weights and inputs using dynamic programming. Conventional CNN convolutions linearly match the shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

Kernel method has been developed as one of the standard approaches for nonlinear learning, which however, does not scale to large data set due to its quadratic complexity in the number of samples. A number of kernel approximation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Lingfei Wu , Ian E. H. Yen , Jie Chen , Rui Yan

We present a new space-efficient approach, (SparseDTW), to compute the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance between two time series that always yields the optimal result. This is in contrast to other known approaches which typically…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Ghazi Al-Naymat , Sanjay Chawla , Javid Taheri

We give the first subquadratic-time approximation schemes for dynamic time warping (DTW) and edit distance (ED) of several natural families of point sequences in $\mathbb{R}^d$, for any fixed $d \ge 1$. In particular, our algorithms compute…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Kyle Fox , Jiangwei Pan , Rex Ying

In this work, we develop a novel framework to measure the similarity between dynamic financial networks, i.e., time-varying financial networks. Particularly, we explore whether the proposed similarity measure can be employed to understand…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-09-10 Lu Bai , Lixin Cui , Lixiang Xu , Yue Wang , Zhihong Zhang , Edwin R. Hancock