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The dynamic time warping (DTW) is a widely-used method that allows us to efficiently compare two time series that can vary in speed. Given two strings $A$ and $B$ of respective lengths $m$ and $n$, there is a fundamental dynamic programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Akihiro Nishi , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Geometric Edit Distance (GED) are basic similarity measures between curves or general temporal sequences (e.g., time series) that are represented as sequences of points in some metric space $(X,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Omer Gold , Micha Sharir

Time Series Clustering is an important subroutine in many higher-level data mining analyses, including data editing for classifiers, summarization, and outlier detection. It is well known that for similarity search the superiority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Nurjahan Begum , Liudmila Ulanova , Hoang Anh Dau , Jun Wang , Eamonn Keogh

Time-series data originate from various applications that describe specific observations or quantities of interest over time. Their analysis often involves the comparison across different time-series data sequences, which in turn requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Kishansingh Rajput , Duong Binh Nguyen , Guoning Chen

To effectively search for the optimal motion template in dynamic multidimensional space, this paper proposes a novel optimization algorithm, Dynamic Dimension Wrapping (DDW).The algorithm combines Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Dongnan Jin , Yali Liu , Qiuzhi Song , Xunju Ma , Yue Liu , Dehao Wu

Dynamic time warping (DTW) can be used to compute the similarity between two sequences of generally differing length. We propose a modification to DTW that performs individual and independent pairwise alignment of feature trajectories. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lerato Lerato , Thomas Niesler

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

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

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 (DTW) is a robust similarity measure of time series. However, it does not satisfy triangular inequality and has high computational complexity, severely limiting its applications in similarity search on large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhengxin Li

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

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

The computation of the distance of two time series is time-consuming for any elastic distance function that accounts for misalignments. Among those functions, DTW is the most prominent. However, a recent extensive evaluation has shown that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jana Holznigenkemper , Christian Komusiewicz , Bernhard Seeger

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

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

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

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

We present an approach for computationally efficient dynamic time warping (DTW) and clustering of time-series data. The method frames the dynamic warping of time series datasets as an optimisation problem solved using dynamic programming,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Volkan Kumtepeli , Rebecca Perriment , David A. Howey

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

We propose a novel time series averaging method based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). In contrast to previous methods, our algorithm preserves durational information and the distinctive durational features of the sequences due to a simple…

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