Title
Weighted dynamic time warping for time series classification
Abstract
Dynamic time warping (DTW), which finds the minimum path by providing non-linear alignments between two time series, has been widely used as a distance measure for time series classification and clustering. However, DTW does not account for the relative importance regarding the phase difference between a reference point and a testing point. This may lead to misclassification especially in applications where the shape similarity between two sequences is a major consideration for an accurate recognition. Therefore, we propose a novel distance measure, called a weighted DTW (WDTW), which is a penalty-based DTW. Our approach penalizes points with higher phase difference between a reference point and a testing point in order to prevent minimum distance distortion caused by outliers. The rationale underlying the proposed distance measure is demonstrated with some illustrative examples. A new weight function, called the modified logistic weight function (MLWF), is also proposed to systematically assign weights as a function of the phase difference between a reference point and a testing point. By applying different weights to adjacent points, the proposed algorithm can enhance the detection of similarity between two time series. We show that some popular distance measures such as DTW and Euclidean distance are special cases of our proposed WDTW measure. We extend the proposed idea to other variants of DTW such as derivative dynamic time warping (DDTW) and propose the weighted version of DDTW. We have compared the performances of our proposed procedures with other popular approaches using public data sets available through the UCR Time Series Data Mining Archive for both time series classification and clustering problems. The experimental results indicate that the proposed approaches can achieve improved accuracy for time series classification and clustering problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.patcog.2010.09.022
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
weight function,dynamic time warping,algorithms,mining,accuracy,euclidean distance,testing,time series,shape,classification
Data set,Weight function,Pattern recognition,Dynamic time warping,Euclidean distance,Outlier,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Distortion,Mathematics,Machine learning,Distance measures
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
9
0031-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
143
3.91
17
Authors
3
Search Limit
100143
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young-Seon Jeong136721.07
Myong K Jeong242433.06
Olufemi A. Omitaomu332117.51