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Temporal data are naturally everywhere, especially in the digital era that sees the advent of big data and internet of things. One major challenge that arises during temporal data analysis and mining is the comparison of time series or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Saeid Soheily-Khah , Pierre-François Marteau

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

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 time series distance measure that aligns the points in two series with one another. These alignments support warping of the time dimension to allow for processes that unfold at differing rates. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Matthieu Herrmann , Chang Wei Tan , Geoffrey I. Webb

Despite the rapid progress on research in adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs), there is little principled work for the time-series domain. Since time-series data arises in diverse applications including mobile health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Taha Belkhouja , Yan Yan , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Time-series anomaly detection is critical for ensuring safety in high-stakes applications, where robustness is a fundamental requirement rather than a mere performance metric. Addressing the vulnerability of these systems to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shijie Liu , Tansu Alpcan , Christopher Leckie , Sarah Erfani

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

The proliferation and ubiquity of temporal data across many disciplines has sparked interest for similarity, classification and clustering methods specifically designed to handle time series data. A core issue when dealing with time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Iñigo Martinez

The classification of time series data is a well-studied problem with numerous practical applications, such as medical diagnosis and speech recognition. A popular and effective approach is to classify new time series in the same way as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ricards Marcinkevics , Steven Kelk , Carlo Galuzzi , Berthold Stegemann

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

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

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

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

Chatter detection from sensor signals has been an active field of research. While some success has been reported using several featurization tools and machine learning algorithms, existing methods have several drawbacks such as manual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh , Andreas Otto

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

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) 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

This paper contributes multivariate versions of seven commonly used elastic similarity and distance measures for time series data analytics. Elastic similarity and distance measures are a class of similarity measures that can compensate for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ahmed Shifaz , Charlotte Pelletier , Francois Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

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

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