Title
Optimally Sparse Frames
Abstract
Frames have established themselves as a means to derive redundant, yet stable decompositions of a signal for analysis or transmission, while also promoting sparse expansions. However, when the signal dimension is large, the computation of the frame measurements of a signal typically requires a large number of additions and multiplications, and this makes a frame decomposition intractable in applications with limited computing budget. To address this problem, in this paper, we focus on frames in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces and introduce sparsity for such frames as a new paradigm. In our terminology, a sparse frame is a frame whose elements have a sparse representation in an orthonormal basis, thereby enabling low-complexity frame decompositions. To introduce a precise meaning of optimality, we take the sum of the numbers of vectors needed from this orthonormal basis when expanding each frame vector as sparsity measure. We then analyze the recently introduced algorithm Spectral Tetris for construction of unit norm tight frames and prove that the tight frames generated by this algorithm are in fact optimally sparse with respect to the standard unit vector basis. Finally, we show that even the generalization of Spectral Tetris for the construction of unit norm frames associated with a given frame operator produces optimally sparse frames.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TIT.2011.2160521
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
hilbert spaces,computational complexity,multidimensional systems,sparse matrices,finite-dimensional hilbert spaces,optimally sparse frames,sparse expansions,spectral tetris,standard unit vector basis,unit norm tight frames,frame decompositions,frame operator,frames,redundancy,sparse approximations,tight frames,numerical analysis,sparse representation,information theory,functional analysis
Hilbert space,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Algorithm design,Computer science,Sparse approximation,Orthonormal basis,Residual frame,Sparse matrix,Computational complexity theory,Unit vector
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
11
0018-9448
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.74
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter G. Casazza112913.11
Andreas Heinecke2332.81
Felix Krahmer3130.74
Gitta Kutyniok432534.77