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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

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

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

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

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

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

Dynamic time warping ($\texttt{DTW}$) is one of the most used distance functions to compare time series, e.$\,$g. in nearest neighbor classifiers. Yet, fast state of the art algorithms only compare 1-dimensional time series efficiently. One…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Jörg P. Bachmann , Johann-Christoph Freytag

We study variants of the mean problem under the $p$-Dynamic Time Warping ($p$-DTW) distance, a popular and robust distance measure for sequential data. In our setting we are given a set of finite point sequences over an arbitrary metric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Koen van Greevenbroek , Ioannis Psarros , Dennis Rohde

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), and its constrained (CDTW) and weighted (WDTW) variants, are time series distances with a wide range of applications. They minimize the cost of non-linear alignments between series. CDTW and WDTW have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Matthieu Herrmann , Geoffrey I. Webb

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 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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 George Sioros , Kristian Nymoen

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

The dynamic time warping (dtw) distance fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and the identity of indiscernibles. As a consequence, the dtw-distance is not warping-invariant, which in turn results in peculiarities in data mining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Brijnesh J. Jain

Many real-world applications require aligning two temporal sequences, including bioinformatics, handwriting recognition, activity recognition, and human-robot coordination. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular alignment method, but can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sridhar Mahadevan , Anup Rao , Georgios Theocharous , Jennifer Healey

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

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

Due to the massively increasing amount of available geospatial data and the need to present it in an understandable way, clustering this data is more important than ever. As clusters might contain a large number of objects, having a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Milutin Brankovic , Kevin Buchin , Koen Klaren , André Nusser , Aleksandr Popov , Sampson Wong

The elasticity of the DTW metric provides a more flexible comparison between time series and is used in numerous machine learning domains such as classification or clustering. However, it does not align the measurements at the beginning and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lucas Foulon , Ilyes Korichi , Xavier Millot

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