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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

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular similarity measure for aligning and comparing time series. Due to DTW's high computation time, lower bounds are often employed to screen poor matches. Many alternative lower bounds have been proposed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Geoffrey I. Webb , Francois Petitjean

We propose to learn multiple local Mahalanobis distance metrics to perform k-nearest neighbor (kNN) classification of temporal sequences. Temporal sequences are first aligned by dynamic time warping (DTW); given the alignment path,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Jiaping Zhao , Zerong Xi , Laurent Itti

The dynamic time warping (DTW) distance has been used as a misfit function for wave-equation inversion to mitigate the local minima issue. However, the original DTW distance is not smooth; therefore it can yield a strong discontinuity in…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Fuqiang Chen , Daniel Peter , Matteo Ravasi

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

Building upon findings in computational model of handwriting learning and execution, we introduce the concept of stability to explain the difference between the actual movements performed during multiple execution of the subject's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Antonio Parziale , Moises Diaz , Miguel A. Ferrer , Angelo Marcelli

Many applications generate and consume temporal data and retrieval of time series is a key processing step in many application domains. Dynamic time warping (DTW) distance between time series of size N and M is computed relying on a dynamic…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 K. Selçuk Candan , Rosaria Rossini , Maria Luisa Sapino , Xiaolan Wang

Computing an accurate mean of a set of time series is a critical task in applications like nearest-neighbor classification and clustering of time series. While there are many distance functions for time series, the most popular distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jana Holznigenkemper , Christian Komusiewicz , Bernhard Seeger

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

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

A time series consists of a series of values or events obtained over repeated measurements in time. Analysis of time series represents and important tool in many application areas, such as stock market analysis, process and quality control,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Vladimir Kurbalija , Miloš Radovanović , Zoltan Geler , Mirjana Ivanović

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

Within many real-world networks the links between pairs of nodes change over time. Thus, there has been a recent boom in studying temporal graphs. Recognizing patterns in temporal graphs requires a proximity measure to compare different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

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 propose in this paper a differentiable learning loss between time series, building upon the celebrated dynamic time warping (DTW) discrepancy. Unlike the Euclidean distance, DTW can compare time series of variable size and is robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Marco Cuturi , Mathieu Blondel

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

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 Classification (TSC) is an important problem with numerous applications in science and technology. Dissimilarity-based approaches, such as Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), are classical methods for distinguishing time series when…

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is widely used for temporal data processing. However, existing methods can neither learn the discriminative prototypes of different classes nor exploit such prototypes for further analysis. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Xiaobin Chang , Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

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