F4: An All-Purpose Tool for Multivariate Time Series Classification

Ángel López-Oriona and José A. Vilar
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Ángel López-Oriona: Research Group MODES, Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC), University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
José A. Vilar: Research Group MODES, Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC), University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 23, 1-26

Abstract: We propose Fast Forest of Flexible Features (F4), a novel approach for classifying multivariate time series, which is aimed to discriminate between underlying generating processes. This goal has barely been addressed in the literature. F4 consists of two steps. First, a set of features based on the quantile cross-spectral density and the maximum overlap discrete wavelet transform are extracted from each series. Second, a random forest is fed with the extracted features. An extensive simulation study shows that F4 outperforms some powerful classifiers in a wide variety of situations, including stationary and nonstationary series. The proposed method is also capable of successfully discriminating between electrocardiogram (ECG) signals of healthy subjects and those with myocardial infarction condition. Additionally, despite lacking shape-based information, F4 attains state-of-the-art results in some datasets of the University of East Anglia (UEA) multivariate time series classification archive.

Keywords: multivariate time series; classification; quantile analysis; wavelet analysis; random forest; ECG signals; UEA archive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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