Péter Kovács, Andrea Márta Fekete,
"Nonlinear least-squares spline fitting with variable knots"
, in Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 354, Elsevier, Seite(n) 490-501, 8-2019, ISSN: 0096-3003
Original Titel:
Nonlinear least-squares spline fitting with variable knots
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
In this paper, we present a nonlinear least-squares fitting algorithm using B-splines with free knots. Since its performance strongly depends on the initial estimation of the free parameters (i.e. the knots), we also propose a fast and efficient knot-prediction algorithm that utilizes numerical properties of first-order B-splines. Using ?p (p=1,2,?) norm solutions, we also provide three different strategies for properly selecting the free knots. Our initial predictions are then iteratively refined by means of a gradient-based variable projection optimization. Our method is general in nature and can be used to estimate the optimal number of knots in cases in which no a-priori information is available.
To evaluate the performance of our method, we approximated a one-dimensional discrete time series and conducted an extensive comparative study using both synthetic and real-world data. We chose the problem of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal compression as a real-world case study. Our experiments on the well-known PhysioNet MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database show that the proposed method outperforms other knot-prediction techniques in terms of accuracy while requiring much lower computational complexity.