Nearest advocate: a novel event-based time delay estimation algorithm for multi-sensor time-series data synchronization

Estimating time delays in event-based time-series is a crucial task in signal processing as it affects the data quality and is a prerequisite for many subsequent analyses. In particular, data acquired from wearable devices often suffer from a low timestamp precision or clock drift. Current state-of-...

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Vydáno v:EURASIP journal on advances in signal processing Ročník 2024; číslo 1; s. 46 - 24
Hlavní autoři: Schranz, Christoph, Mayr, Sebastian, Bernhart, Severin, Halmich, Christina
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.12.2024
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ISSN:1687-6180, 1687-6172, 1687-6180
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Shrnutí:Estimating time delays in event-based time-series is a crucial task in signal processing as it affects the data quality and is a prerequisite for many subsequent analyses. In particular, data acquired from wearable devices often suffer from a low timestamp precision or clock drift. Current state-of-the-art methods such as Pearson Cross-Correlation are sensitive to typical data quality issues, e.g. misdetected events, and Dynamic Time Warping is computationally expensive. To overcome these limitations, we propose Nearest Advocate, a novel event-based time delay estimation method for multi-sensor time-series data synchronisation. We evaluate its performance using three independent datasets acquired from wearable sensor systems, demonstrating its superior precision, particularly for short, noisy time-series with missing events. Additionally, we introduce a sparse variant that balances precision and runtime. Finally, we demonstrate how Nearest Advocate can be used to solve the problem of linear as well as non-linear clock drifts. Thus, Nearest Advocate offers a promising opportunity for time delay estimation and post-hoc synchronization for challenging datasets across various applications.
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ISSN:1687-6180
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DOI:10.1186/s13634-024-01143-1