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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

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

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

Dynamic Time Wrapping (DTW) is a widely used algorithm for measuring similarities between two time series. It is especially valuable in a wide variety of applications, such as clustering, anomaly detection, classification, or video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hugo Lerogeron , Romain Picot-Clemente , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Laurent Heutte

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

In this paper, we propose a method of improving temporal Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) by determining the optimal alignment of weights and inputs using dynamic programming. Conventional CNN convolutions linearly match the shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

Dynamic time warping distance (DTW) is a widely used distance measure between time series $x, y \in \Sigma^n$. It was shown by Abboud, Backurs, and Williams that in the \emph{binary case}, where $|\Sigma| = 2$, DTW can be computed in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-06 William Kuszmaul

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

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

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

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

Elastic distances like dynamic time warping (DTW) are central to time series machine learning because they compare sequences under local temporal misalignment. Soft-DTW is an adaptation of DTW that can be used as a gradient-based loss by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall

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) 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

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

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

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

The growing popularity of online sports and exercise necessitates effective methods for evaluating the quality of online exercise executions. Previous action quality assessment methods, which relied on labeled scores from motion videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Renguang Chen , Guolong Zheng , Xu Yang , Zhide Chen , Jiwu Shu , Wencheng Yang , Kexin Zhu , Chen Feng

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

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