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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

Multivariate time series naturally exist in many fields, like energy, bioinformatics, signal processing, and finance. Most of these applications need to be able to compare these structured data. In this context, dynamic time warping (DTW)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Maria-Irina Nicolae , Éric Gaussier , Amaury Habrard , Marc Sebban

In this paper, for the purpose of data centre energy consumption monitoring and analysis, we propose to detect the running programs in a server by classifying the observed power consumption series. Time series classification problem has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Yuanlong Li , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Jun Zhang

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

Neural networks have achieved remarkable success in time series classification, but their reliance on large amounts of labeled data for training limits their applicability in cold-start scenarios. Moreover, they lack interpretability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jintao Qu , Zichong Wang , Chenhao Wu , Wenbin Zhang

In this work, we consider the problem of pattern matching under the dynamic time warping (DTW) distance motivated by potential applications in the analysis of biological data produced by the third generation sequencing. To measure the DTW…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Garance Gourdel , Anne Driemel , Pierre Peterlongo , Tatiana Starikovskaya

In this work, we consider the problem of sequence-to-sequence alignment for signals containing outliers. Assuming the absence of outliers, the standard Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm efficiently computes the optimal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Nikita Dvornik , Isma Hadji , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Animesh Garg , Allan D. Jepson

DTW calculates the similarity or alignment between two signals, subject to temporal warping. However, its computational complexity grows exponentially with the number of time-series. Although there have been algorithms developed that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Soheil Khorram , Melvin G McInnis , Emily Mower Provost

This paper presents an efficient approach for subsequence search in data streams. The problem consists in identifying coherent repetitions of a given reference time-series, eventually multi-variate, within a longer data stream. Dynamic Time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Antonio Candelieri , Stanislav Fedorov , Enza Messina

To classify time series by nearest neighbors, we need to specify or learn one or several distance measures. We consider variations of the Mahalanobis distance measures which rely on the inverse covariance matrix of the data. Unfortunately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Zoltán Prekopcsák , Daniel Lemire

Dynamic Time Warping is arguably the most popular similarity measure for time series, where we define a time series to be a one-dimensional polygonal curve. The drawback of Dynamic Time Warping is that it is sensitive to the sampling rate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kevin Buchin , André Nusser , Sampson Wong

Classification of time series is a growing problem in different disciplines due to the progressive digitalization of the world. Currently, the state-of-the-art in time series classification is dominated by The Hierarchical Vote Collective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Francisco J. Baldán , José M. Benítez

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

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

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is an effective dissimilarity measure in many time series applications. Despite its popularity, it is prone to noises and outliers, which leads to singularity problem and bias in the measurement. The time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiaomin Song , Qingsong Wen , Yan Li , Liang Sun

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is a popular measure of similarity for a variety of sequence data. For comparing polygonal curves $\pi, \sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, it provides a robust, outlier-insensitive alternative to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , Dániel Marx , André Nusser

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 a useful method for aligning, comparing and combining time series, but it requires them to live in comparable spaces. In this work, we consider a setting in which time series live on different spaces without a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Alexander Terenin , Brandon Amos , Marc Peter Deisenroth

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

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