“…Local Principal Component Analysis (LPCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique, proposed by Kambhatla et al [37], based on the projection of high-dimensional data onto k sets of lower-dimensional manifolds. Although this algorithm was originally proposed for dimensionality reduction, it has been frequently utilized for clustering tasks in the last years [38][39][40][41]. In addition, it has been shown that, when applied to reacting flow databases, LPCA can ensure a better partitioning with respect to popular unsupervised algorithms such as k-Means and Self-Organzing Maps (SOMs) [32].…”