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This paper deals with maximum entropy completion of partially specified block-circulant matrices. Since positive definite symmetric circulants happen to be covariance matrices of stationary periodic processes, in particular of stationary…
This is a survey of some recent results on the rational circulant covariance extension problem: Given a partial sequence $(c_0,c_1,\dots,c_n)$ of covariance lags $c_k=\mathbb{E}\{y(t+k)\overline{y(t)}\}$ emanating from a stationary periodic…
The rational covariance extension problem (RCEP) is an important problem in systems and control occurring in such diverse fields as control, estimation, system identification, and signal and image processing, leading to many fundamental…
In our companion paper "Multidimensional rational covariance extension with applications to spectral estimation and image compression" we discussed the multidimensional rational covariance extension problem (RCEP), which has important…
This paper concerns a spectral estimation problem for multivariate (i.e., vector-valued) signals defined on a multidimensional domain, abbreviated as M$^2$. The problem is posed as solving a finite number of trigonometric moment equations…
The inverse Toeplitz eigenvalue problem (ToIEP) concerns finding a vector that specifies the real-valued symmetric Toeplitz matrix with the prescribed set of eigenvalues. Since phase "calibration" errors in uniform linear antenna arrays…
A new nonparametric estimator for Toeplitz covariance matrices is proposed. This estimator is based on a data transformation that translates the problem of Toeplitz covariance matrix estimation to the problem of mean estimation in an…
In the present paper we consider the problem of estimating the multidimensional power spectral density which describes a second-order stationary random field from a finite number of covariance and generalized cepstral coefficients. The…
"Toeplitzification" or "redundancy (spatial) averaging", the well-known routine for deriving the Toeplitz covariance matrix estimate from the standard sample covariance matrix, recently regained new attention due to the important Random…
Stationary reciprocal processes defined on a finite interval of the integer line can be seen as a special class of Markov random fields restricted to one dimension. Non stationary reciprocal processes have been extensively studied in the…
We study the solutions of infinite dimensional linear inverse problems over Banach spaces. The regularizer is defined as the total variation of a linear mapping of the function to recover, while the data fitting term is a near arbitrary…
In several applications, one must estimate a real-valued (symmetric) Toeplitz covariance matrix, typically shifted by the conjugated diagonal matrices of phase progression and phase "calibration" errors. Unlike the Hermitian Toeplitz…
Inspired by regularization techniques in statistics and machine learning, we study complementary composite minimization in the stochastic setting. This problem corresponds to the minimization of the sum of a (weakly) smooth function endowed…
The ensemble covariance matrix of a wide sense stationary signal spatially sampled by a full linear array is positive semi-definite and Toeplitz. However, the direct augmented covariance matrix of an augmentable sparse array is Toeplitz but…
We consider the symmetric Toeplitz matrix completion problem, whose matrix under consideration possesses specific row and column structures. This problem, which has wide application in diverse areas, is well-known to be computationally…
We consider partial symmetric Toeplitz matrices where a positive definite completion exists. We characterize those patterns where the maximum determinant completion is itself Toeplitz. We then extend these results with positive definite…
The need to Fourier transform data sets with irregular sampling is shared by various domains of science. This is the case for example in astronomy or sismology. Iterative methods have been developed that allow to reach approximate…
We consider the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues of Toeplitz matrices with rational symbol as the size of the matrix goes to infinity. Our main result is that the weak limit of the normalized eigenvalue counting measure is a…
The problem of estimating the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of a $p$-variate distribution based on its $n$ observations arises in many data analysis contexts. While for $n>p$, the classical sample covariance matrix $\hat{\Sigma}_n$ is a good…
The inverse problem of fractional Brownian motion and other Gaussian processes with stationary increments involves inverting an infinite hermitian positively definite Toeplitz matrix (a matrix that has equal elements along its diagonals).…