PDCON:Conference/Dynamic Time Warping for Pure Data

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Dynamic time warping for Pure Data

Authors: Pedro Lopes and Joaquim Jorge

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We present an implementation of the Dynamic Time Warping algorithm for the Pure Data programming environment. This algorithm is fairly popular in several contexts, ranging from speech processing to pattern detection, mainly because it allows to compare and recognize data sets that may vary non-linearly in time. Our contribution is easily portable to a wide number of platforms, where Pure Data is available. Throughout this document we describe relevant work that inspired our proposal and present the core concepts of our implementation.

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We conclude with an evaluation of our Dynamic Time Warping implementation in two perspectives: performance and adequacy towards gesture recognition. The performance tests suggest that it is suited for realtime contexts, where algorithmic efficiency is of utmost importance. Finally we present a case study where our implementation was used successfully to accommodate gesture recognition on an existing application.

Hopefully with the feedback of the community this external can be released in a nearby future, allowing the DTW algorithm to be easily used from within Pd.


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