The article
Servien, R. & Vialaneix, N. (2024). A random forest approach for interval selection in functional regression. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 17(4), e11705.
has just been published in Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. In this article, we describe a new method in functional regression to automatically extract impactful intervals in the range of the functional predictor. Check out my Publication page for a link to the article. The method is available in the R package SISIR.