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Fundamentals of Computing Continuous Dynamic Time Warping in 2D under Different Norms

Published: November 25, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.20420v1

By: Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Jan Erik Swiadek and more

Potential Business Impact:

Finds similar shapes even with messy data.

Business Areas:
Analytics Data and Analytics

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 exactly under the Euclidean 2-norm using only algebraic operations, and we give an exact algorithm for CDTW under norms approximating the 2-norm. The latter result relies on technical fundamentals that we establish, and which generalise to any norm and to related measures such as the partial Fréchet similarity.

Country of Origin
🇩🇪 Germany

Page Count
31 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Computational Geometry