A Case-Study on the Impact of Dynamic Time Warping in Time Series Regression

10/11/2020
by   Vivek Mahato, et al.
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It is well understood that Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is effective in revealing similarities between time series that do not align perfectly. In this paper, we illustrate this on spectroscopy time-series data. We show that DTW is effective in improving accuracy on a regression task when only a single wavelength is considered. When combined with k-Nearest Neighbour, DTW has the added advantage that it can reveal similarities and differences between samples at the level of the time-series. However, in the problem, we consider here data is available across a spectrum of wavelengths. If aggregate statistics (means, variances) are used across many wavelengths the benefits of DTW are no longer apparent. We present this as another example of a situation where big data trumps sophisticated models in Machine Learning.

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