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The PhaseLift algorithm is an effective convex method for solving the phase retrieval problem from Fourier measurements with coded diffraction patterns (CDP). While exact reconstruction guarantees are well-established in the noiseless case,…
In this manuscript, we analyze the sparse signal recovery (compressive sensing) problem from the perspective of convex optimization by stochastic proximal gradient descent. This view allows us to significantly simplify the recovery analysis…
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Signal reconstruction from its mel-spectrogram is known as mel-spectrogram inversion and has many applications, including speech and foley sound synthesis. In this paper, we propose a mel-spectrogram inversion method based on a rigorous…
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The synchrosqueezing transform, a kind of reassignment method, aims to sharpen the time-frequency representation and to separate the components of a multicomponent non-stationary signal. In this paper, we consider the short-time Fourier…
We propose a method for automatic local time-adaptation of the spectrogram of audio signals: it is based on the decomposition of a signal within a Gabor multi-frame through the STFT operator. The sparsity of the analysis in every individual…
Transformers have become central to recent advances in audio classification. However, training an audio spectrogram transformer, e.g. AST, from scratch can be resource and time-intensive. Furthermore, the complexity of transformers heavily…
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Audio inpainting, i.e., the task of restoring missing or occluded audio signal samples, usually relies on sparse representations or autoregressive modeling. In this paper, we propose to structure the spectrogram with nonnegative matrix…
We revisit the classical problem of Fourier-sparse signal reconstruction -- a variant of the \emph{Set Query} problem -- which asks to efficiently reconstruct (a subset of) a $d$-dimensional Fourier-sparse signal ($\|\hat{x}(t)\|_0 \leq…
We develop procedures, based on minimization of the composition $f(x) = h(c(x))$ of a convex function $h$ and smooth function $c$, for solving random collections of quadratic equalities, applying our methodology to phase retrieval problems.…