Expert enhanced dynamic time warping based anomaly detection
This work addresses anomaly detection for time series data, offering an incremental improvement by incorporating expert feedback into an existing method.
The paper tackles the problem of anomaly detection in time series by proposing E-DTWA, a method that enhances dynamic time warping with human-in-the-loop feedback, resulting in efficient detection and flexible retraining while maintaining low computational and space complexity.
Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a well-known algorithm for time series elastic dissimilarity measure. Its ability to deal with non-linear time distortions makes it helpful in variety of data mining tasks. Such a task is also anomaly detection which attempts to reveal unexpected behaviour without false detection alarms. In this paper, we propose a novel anomaly detection method named Expert enhanced dynamic time warping anomaly detection (E-DTWA). It is based on DTW with additional enhancements involving human-in-the-loop concept. The main benefits of our approach comprise efficient detection, flexible retraining based on strong consideration of the expert's detection feedback while retaining low computational and space complexity.