# time series with different length: feature extraction and classification

I have a binary classification problem, where each data point is multi-channel time-series, which can be represented as a matrix TxF, where T is the time-series length, and F as the channels number. T isn't constant - each data point has different length. For classification I need to extract a fixed sized features vector from each data point. Moreover, I suspect that the information is partly embedded as short events in the data, so transformations as fourier are not very helpful. I tried to calculate the covariance matrix of TxF to get a FxF matrix, take the upper/lower part (include the main diagonal) and flat it. After that, I used PCA to reduce dimensionality. I'm afraid I loosing lots of important information using this transformation. Mainly because SVM gives me something near to chance level. I don't think that methods like Matrix Completion will help, maybe stretching methods will be more helpful.

Any suggestion?

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