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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

Dynamic time warping distance (DTW) is a widely used distance measure between time series. The best known algorithms for computing DTW run in near quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds prohibit the existence of significantly faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 William Kuszmaul

Dynamic Time Warping is arguably the most popular similarity measure for time series, where we define a time series to be a one-dimensional polygonal curve. The drawback of Dynamic Time Warping is that it is sensitive to the sampling rate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Kevin Buchin , André Nusser , Sampson Wong

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) is a widely used similarity measure for comparing strings that encode time series data, with applications to areas including bioinformatics, signature verification, and speech recognition. The standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zoe Xi , William Kuszmaul

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a well-known similarity measure for time series. The standard dynamic programming approach to compute the DTW distance of two length-$n$ time series, however, requires~$O(n^2)$ time, which is often too slow for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Maciej Rymar , Mathias Weller

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

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

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 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

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is an algorithm to align temporal sequences with possible local non-linear distortions, and has been widely applied to audio, video and graphics data alignments. DTW is essentially a point-to-point matching method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jiaping Zhao , Laurent Itti

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

Many time series data mining problems can be solved with repeated use of distance measure. Examples of such tasks include similarity search, clustering, classification, anomaly detection and segmentation. For over two decades it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Renjie Wu , Eamonn J. Keogh

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 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

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

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 Warping (DTW) has become the pragmatic choice for measuring distance between time series. However, it suffers from unavoidable quadratic time complexity when the optimal alignment matrix needs to be computed exactly. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Fabian Latorre , Chenghao Liu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

The ubiquity of sequences in many domains enhances significant recent interest in sequence learning, for which a basic problem is how to measure the distance between sequences. Dynamic time warping (DTW) aligns two sequences by nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Zhichen Gong , Huanhuan Chen

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular similarity measure between time series. The DTW fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and its computation requires quadratic time. Hence, to find closest neighbors quickly, we use bounding…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-10-07 Daniel Lemire
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