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Therein, fault feature extraction (FFE) of bearing accelerometer sensor signals is essential to highlight representative features of bearing conditions for machinery fault diagnosis and prognosis. This paper proposes a spectral regression (SR)-based approach for fault feature extraction from original features including time, frequency and time-frequency domain features of bearing accelerometer sensor signals. SR is a novel regression framework for efficient regularized subspace learning and feature extraction technology, and it uses the least squares method to obtain the best projection direction, rather than computing the density matrix of features, so it also has the advantage in dimensionality reduction. The effectiveness of the SR-based method is validated experimentally by applying the acquired vibration signals data to bearings. The experimental results indicate that SR can reduce the computation cost and preserve more structure information about different bearing faults and severities, and it is demonstrated that the proposed feature extraction scheme has an advantage over other similar approaches.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s121013694","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,10,15]],"date-time":"2012-10-15T04:01:17Z","timestamp":1350273677000},"page":"13694-13719","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":73,"title":["Spectral Regression Based Fault Feature Extraction for Bearing Accelerometer Sensor Signals"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Zhanguo","family":"Xia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shixiong","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Wan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shiyu","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, Jiangsu, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2573","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ymssp.2011.02.006","article-title":"Bearing performance degradation assessment using locality preserving projections and Gaussian mixture models","volume":"25","author":"Yu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Mech. 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