Dynamic Time Warping
If you pass in 2 vectors it returns the unnormalized distance between the vectors, the accumulated distance between them, the length of the warping path (the normalizing factor), and the warping path points.
To compare 2 vectors A and B call:
[Dist,D,k,w]=dtw(A,B)
Dist is the unnormalized distance
D is the accumulated distance
k is the length of the warping path
(the normalizing factor)
w is a matrix containing the points along the warping path
Cite As
Timothy Felty (2026). Dynamic Time Warping (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6516-dynamic-time-warping), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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Inspired: Constrained Dynamic Time Warping Distance Measure, Continuous Dynamic Time Warping
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