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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

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a useful method for aligning, comparing and combining time series, but it requires them to live in comparable spaces. In this work, we consider a setting in which time series live on different spaces without a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Alexander Terenin , Brandon Amos , Marc Peter Deisenroth

We study statistical inference on the similarity/distance between two time-series under uncertain environment by considering a statistical hypothesis test on the distance obtained from Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm. The sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-24 Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Ichiro Takeuchi

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), 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

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

Pointwise matches between two time series are of great importance in time series analysis, and dynamic time warping (DTW) is known to provide generally reasonable matches. There are situations where time series alignment should be invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Tsu-Wei Chen , Meena Abdelmaseeh , Daniel Stashuk

The goal of temporal alignment is to establish time correspondence between two sequences, which has many applications in a variety of areas such as speech processing, bioinformatics, computer vision, and computer graphics. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-20 Makoto Yamada , Leonid Sigal , Michalis Raptis , Masashi Sugiyama

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

Temporal alignment of sequences is a fundamental challenge in many applications, such as computer vision and bioinformatics, where local time shifting needs to be accounted for. Misalignment can lead to poor model generalization, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Afek Steinberg , Ran Eisenberg , Ofir Lindenbaum

Temporal alignment of multiple signals through time warping is crucial in many fields, such as classification within speech recognition or robot motion learning. Almost all related works are limited to data in Euclidean space. Although an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Julian Richter , Christopher A. Erdös , Christian Scheurer , Jochen J. Steil , Niels Dehio

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

Soft dynamic time warping (SDTW) is a differentiable loss function that allows for training neural networks from weakly aligned data. Typically, SDTW is used to iteratively compute and refine soft alignments that compensate for temporal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Johannes Zeitler , Simon Deniffel , Michael Krause , Meinard Müller

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

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

Multiple sequences alignment (MSA) is a traditional and challenging task for time-series analyses. The MSA problem is formulated as a discrete optimization problem and is typically solved by dynamic programming. However, the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Keisuke Kawano , Takuro Kutsuna , Satoshi Koide

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

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

We extended dynamic time warping (DTW) into interval-based dynamic time warping (iDTW), including (A) interval-based representation (iRep): [1] abstracting raw, time-stamped data into interval-based abstractions, [2] comparison-period…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yuval Shahar , Matan Lion

The elasticity of the DTW metric provides a more flexible comparison between time series and is used in numerous machine learning domains such as classification or clustering. However, it does not align the measurements at the beginning and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lucas Foulon , Ilyes Korichi , Xavier Millot