Title
Phase Retrieval for Sparse Signals: Uniqueness Conditions.
Abstract
In a variety of fields, in particular those involving imaging and optics, we often measure signals whose phase is missing or has been irremediably distorted. Phase retrieval attempts the recovery of the phase information of a signal from the magnitude of its Fourier transform to enable the reconstruction of the original signal. A fundamental question then is: "Under which conditions can we uniquely recover the signal of interest from its measured magnitudes?" In this paper, we assume the measured signal to be sparse. This is a natural assumption in many applications, such as X-ray crystallography, speckle imaging and blind channel estimation. In this work, we derive a sufficient condition for the uniqueness of the solution of the phase retrieval (PR) problem for both discrete and continuous domains, and for one and multi-dimensional domains. More precisely, we show that there is a strong connection between PR and the turnpike problem, a classic combinatorial problem. We also prove that the existence of collisions in the autocorrelation function of the signal may preclude the uniqueness of the solution of PR. Then, assuming the absence of collisions, we prove that the solution is almost surely unique on 1-dimensional domains. Finally, we extend this result to multi-dimensional signals by solving a set of 1-dimensional problems. We show that the solution of the multi-dimensional problem is unique when the autocorrelation function has no collisions, significantly improving upon a previously known result.
Year
Venue
Field
2013
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Uniqueness,Magnitude (mathematics),Mathematical optimization,Phase retrieval,Communication channel,Fourier transform,Speckle imaging,Almost surely,Mathematics,Autocorrelation
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1308.3058
23
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.42
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juri Ranieri11399.77
A. Chebira217914.16
Yue M. Lu367760.17
Martin Vetterli4139262397.68