Before revision:  We illustrate the performance of the method using bivariate fractional Brownian motions and multifractal binomial measures with analytical expressions and apply it to extract the intrinsic cross-correlation between crude oil and gold futures by considering the impact of the US dollar index  .
After revision:  We illustrate the performance of the method using bivariate fractional Brownian motions contaminated with a fractional Brownian motion. We find that the DPXA is able to recover the analytical cross Hurst indices, and thus the multi-scale DPXA coefficients are a viable alternative to the conventional cross-correlation coefficient. We demonstrate the advantage of the DPXA coefficients over the DCCA coefficients by analyzing contaminated bivariate fractional Brownian motions. We calculate the DPXA coefficients and use them to extract the intrinsic cross-correlation between crude oil and gold futures by considering the impact of the US dollar index .