Automatic parameter selection for a k-segments algorithm for computing principal curves

This paper studies the k-segments algorithm proposed by Verbeek et al. [Verbeek, J.J., Vlassis, N., Krose, B., 2002. A k-segments algorithm for finding principal curves, Pattern Recognition Lett. 23, 1009–1017] for computing principal curves. In particular an automatic method for choosing the “free” parameters in this k-segments algorithm is proposed. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate the performance of this proposed method.