Best subspace tensor approximations

In many applications such as data compression, imaging or genomic data analysis, it is important to approximate a given tensor by a tensor that is sparsely representable. For matrices, i.e. 2-tensors, such a representation can be obtained via the singular value decomposition which allows to compute the best rank k approximations. For t-tensors with t > 2 many generalizations of the singular value decomposition have been proposed to obtain low tensor rank decompositions. In this paper we will present a different approach which is based on best subspace approximations, which present an alternative generalization of the singular value decomposition to tensors.