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Aligning structured data is a fundamental problem in computer vision and machine learning, underlying tasks such as time series analysis, human action recognition, and visual representation learning. Existing alignment methods, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Wang , Syuan-Hao Li , Yongsheng Gao , Piotr Koniusz

Where dealing with temporal sequences it is fair to assume that the same kind of deformations that motivated the development of the Dynamic Time Warp algorithm could be relevant also in the calculation of the dot product ("convolution") in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Yaniv Shulman

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

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

Time series data analysis is a critical component in various domains such as finance, healthcare, and meteorology. Despite the progress in deep learning for time series analysis, there remains a challenge in addressing the non-stationary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Akane Sano

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

In this paper, we tackle the problem of video alignment, the process of matching the frames of a pair of videos containing similar actions. The main challenge in video alignment is that accurate correspondence should be established despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Niloufar Fakhfour , Mohammad ShahverdiKondori , Sajjad Hashembeiki , Mohammadjavad Norouzi , Hoda Mohammadzade

In this work, we consider the problem of sequence-to-sequence alignment for signals containing outliers. Assuming the absence of outliers, the standard Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm efficiently computes the optimal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Nikita Dvornik , Isma Hadji , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Animesh Garg , Allan D. Jepson

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

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

We present an approach for computationally efficient dynamic time warping (DTW) and clustering of time-series data. The method frames the dynamic warping of time series datasets as an optimisation problem solved using dynamic programming,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Volkan Kumtepeli , Rebecca Perriment , David A. Howey

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

Audio-to-score alignment aims at generating an accurate mapping between a performance audio and the score of a given piece. Standard alignment methods are based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and employ handcrafted features. We explore the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Ruchit Agrawal , Simon Dixon

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

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a well-known algorithm for time series elastic dissimilarity measure. Its ability to deal with non-linear time distortions makes it helpful in variety of data mining tasks. Such a task is also anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Matej Kloska , Gabriela Grmanova , Viera Rozinajova

Human demonstrations of trajectories are an important source of training data for many machine learning problems. However, the difficulty of collecting human demonstration data for complex tasks makes learning efficient representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Travers Rhodes , Daniel D. Lee

We address weakly supervised action alignment and segmentation in videos, where only the order of occurring actions is available during training. We propose Discriminative Differentiable Dynamic Time Warping (D3TW), the first discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chien-Yi Chang , De-An Huang , Yanan Sui , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a robust similarity measure of time series. However, it does not satisfy triangular inequality and has high computational complexity, severely limiting its applications in similarity search on large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhengxin Li

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 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