dtw-showing-dynamic-lags

DTW is a method to quantify the similarity between two time series or sequences exhibiting a certain likeness but may vary in speed and amplitude.

DTW can be used to calculate the similarites between 2 times series.

But here i'm showing how to use it to calculate the dynamic lags between two time series signals.

what are dynamic lags?

Like the image shown above, dynamic lags give information on wether a current sample is leading of lagging correspoinding to it's counterpart in the other signal.

detailed breadown of the process

step 1: take 2 signals with same number of samples (s1.txt and s2.txt in the code provided)

step 2: calculate error matrix with a defined search window (given as 100 in the code)

step 3: accumulated the errors by an interval of H (value set as 50 in the code)

step 4: backtrack through the accumulated indices to get dynamic lags

the red arrow shows the way we backtrack

step 5: interpolate the lag waveform to the same number as our number of samples

this wave form means: 1. For positive values of lag waveform, signal 1 is leading in respect to signal 2 2. For negative values of lag waveform, signal 1 is lagging in respect to signal 2

Happy coding...!!!