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Having determined the events in each pixel it is possible to reconstruct the image with reduced noise levels using the matrix \(E\). However, this will not tell us anything about the properties of actual release events (e.g., spark/wave numbers or properties) as these macroscopic events are made up of several events from different pixels. It is therefore necessary to combine elementary events from various pixels into macroscopic release events.  This is achieved using the clustering method DBSCAN \cite{Sander_1998}. The works in the parameter space and finds clusters of arbitrary shape based on the density of events. This is preferable to standard In contrast with many other  clustering methods which often yield radially symmetric (e.g., k-nearest neighbours, spectral clustering) the number of clusters found is not determined in advance. The number of  clusters (k-means, etc). found depends on the data and two parameters: minimum number of events in a cluster and the maximum distance from a cluster to be included in it).  Clustering is performed in two steps. First, pixel events are distributed into groups accoring to their shape i.e., clustering is done on the matrix \(E^s\). This is possible because, although the function used for fitting various release events (e.g., sparks or waves) is the same, the shape parameters of a event approximating a spark are likely to be more similar to other spark events rather than wave events. This is clearly visible on Figure \ref{fig:linescan}A where ...