Title
Nonideal Sampling and Regularization Theory
Abstract
Shannon's sampling theory and its variants provide effective solutions to the problem of reconstructing a signal from its samples in some "shift-invariant" space, which may or may not be bandlimited. In this paper, we present some further justification for this type of representation, while addressing the issue of the specification of the best reconstruction space. We consider a realistic setting where a multidimensional signal is prefiltered prior to sampling, and the samples are corrupted by additive noise. We adopt a variational approach to the reconstruction problem and minimize a data fidelity term subject to a Tikhonov-like (continuous domain) L2 -regularization to obtain the continuous-space solution. We present theoretical justification for the minimization of this cost functional and show that the globally minimal continuous-space solution belongs to a shift-invariant space generated by a function (generalized B-spline) that is generally not bandlimited. When the sampling is ideal, we recover some of the classical smoothing spline estimators. The optimal reconstruction space is characterized by a condition that links the generating function to the regularization operator and implies the existence of a B-spline-like basis. To make the scheme practical, we specify the generating functions corresponding to the most popular families of regularization operators (derivatives, iterated Laplacian), as well as a new, generalized one that leads to a new brand of Matern splines. We conclude the paper by proposing a stochastic interpretation of the reconstruction algorithm and establishing an equivalence with the minimax and minimum mean square error (MMSE/Wiener) solutions of the generalized sampling problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/TSP.2007.908997
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
index terms,reconstruction algorithm,nonideal sampling,shift-invariant space,generalized b-spline,reconstruction problem,optimal reconstruction space,generalized sampling problem,best reconstruction space,sampling theory,regularization theory,generating function,regularization operator,cost function,stochastic interpretation,smoothing splines,spline,sampling methods,regularization,smoothing spline,stochastic processes,iterative methods,information theory,signal reconstruction,indexing terms,noise,minimum mean square error,multidimensional systems
Mathematical optimization,Minimax,Smoothing spline,Minimum mean square error,Reconstruction algorithm,Regularization (mathematics),Sampling (statistics),Signal reconstruction,Mathematics,Multidimensional systems
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
56
3
1053-587X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.61
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sathish Ramani138622.20
Dimitri Van De Ville21656118.48
T Blu32574259.70
Unser, M.43438442.40