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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

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

Distance-based time series anomaly detection methods are prevalent due to their relative non-parametric nature and interpretability. However, the commonly used Euclidean distance is sensitive to noise. While existing works have explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hanyang Yuan , Qinglin Cai , Keting Yin

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

This paper addresses learning end-to-end models for time series data that include a temporal alignment step via dynamic time warping (DTW). Existing approaches to differentiable DTW either differentiate through a fixed warping path or apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ming Xu , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Stephen Gould

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

Neural networks have achieved remarkable success in time series classification, but their reliance on large amounts of labeled data for training limits their applicability in cold-start scenarios. Moreover, they lack interpretability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jintao Qu , Zichong Wang , Chenhao Wu , Wenbin Zhang

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

Time series with large discontinuities are common in many scenarios. However, existing distance-based algorithms (e.g., DTW and its derivative algorithms) may perform poorly in measuring distances between these time series pairs. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jiabo He , Sarah Erfani , Sudanthi Wijewickrema , Stephen O'Leary , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Among many existing distance measures for time series data, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance has been recognized as one of the most accurate and suitable distance measures due to its flexibility in sequence alignment. However, DTW…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-16 Vit Niennattrakul , Pongsakorn Ruengronghirunya , Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana

Modern technological advances have expanded the scope of applications requiring analysis of large-scale datastreams that comprise multiple indefinitely long time series. There is an acute need for statistical methodologies that perform…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-03 Jingshen Wang , Lilun Du , Changliang Zou , Zhenke Wu

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

Measuring similarities between unlabeled time series trajectories is an important problem in domains as diverse as medicine, astronomy, finance, and computer vision. It is often unclear what is the appropriate metric to use because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Abubakar Abid , James Zou

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

In this paper, for the purpose of data centre energy consumption monitoring and analysis, we propose to detect the running programs in a server by classifying the observed power consumption series. Time series classification problem has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Yuanlong Li , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Jun Zhang

1-Nearest Neighbor with the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is one of the most effective classifiers on time series domain. Since the global constraint has been introduced in speech community, many global constraint models have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Vit Niennattrakul , Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana

Detecting anomalous time series is key for scientific, medical and industrial tasks, but is challenging due to its inherent unsupervised nature. In recent years, progress has been made on this task by learning increasingly more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Yedid Hoshen

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

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