Springer Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques: A Data Structure Preservation Approach

This book proposes tools for analysis of multidimensional and metric data, by establishing a state-of-the-art of the existing solutions and developing new ones. It mainly focuses on visual exploration of these data by a human analyst, relying on a 2D or 3D scatter plot display obtained through Dimensionality Reduction.  Performing diagnosis of an energy system requires identifying relations between observed monitoring variables and the associated internal state of the system. Dimensionality reduction, which allows to represent visually a multidimensional dataset, constitutes a promising tool to help domain experts to analyse these relations. This book reviews existing techniques for visual data exploration and dimensionality reduction such as tSNE and Isomap, and proposes new solutions to challenges in that field.  In particular, it presents the new unsupervised technique ASKI and the supervised methods ClassNeRV and ClassJSE. Moreover, MING, a new approach for local map quality evaluation is also introduced. These methods are then applied to the representation of expert-designed fault indicators for smart-buildings, I-V curves for photovoltaic systems and acoustic signals for Li-ion batteries. From the Back Cover This book proposes tools for analysis of multidimensional and metric data, by establishing a state-of-the-art of the existing solutions and developing new ones. It mainly focuses on visual exploration of these data by a human analyst, relying on a 2D or 3D scatter plot display obtained through Dimensionality Reduction (DR). Performing diagnosis of an energy system requires identifying relations between observed monitoring variables and the associated internal state of the system. Dimensionality reduction, which allows to represent visually a multidimensional dataset, constitutes a promising tool to help domain experts to analyse these relations. This book reviews existing techniques for visual data exploration and dimensionality reduction, and proposes new solutions to challenges in that field. In order to perform diagnosis of energy systems, domain experts need to establish relations between the possible states of a given system and the measurement of a set of monitoring variables. Classical dimensionality reduction techniques such as tSNE and Isomap are presented, as well as the new unsupervised technique ASKI and the supervised methods ClassNeRV and ClassJSE. A new approach, MING for local map quality evaluation, is also introduced. These methods are then applied to the representation of expert-designed fault indicators for smart-buildings, I-V curves for photovoltaic systems and acoustic signals for Li-ion batteries. About the Author After his PhD degree in biomathematics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Sylvain Lespinats held postdoc positions at several institutions, including INSERM (the French National Institute of Medical Reseach), INREST (the French National Insistute of Transport and Security Research), and some universities and research institutes. He is currently a permanent researcher at CEA-INES (the French National Institute of Solar Energy) near Chambery.  He is the author or co-author of about 50 papers and more then ten patents. His work is dedicated to providing ad hoc approaches for data mining and knowledge discovery to his colleagues in various fields, including genomics, virology, quantitiative sociology, transport security, solar energy forecasting, solar plang security, and battery diagnosis. Dr. Lespinats's scientific interests include the exhibition of spatial structures in high dimensional data. In that framework, he developed several non-linear mapping methods and worked on the local evaluation of mappings. Recently he mainly focuses on renewable data to contribute to energy transition. Benoit Colange graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon and hte Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France. During his PhD training