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Phase retrieval refers to recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude. This problem arises naturally in many scientific applications, such as ultra-short laser pulse characterization and diffraction imaging. Unfortunately, phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper considers the problem of recovering a $k$-sparse, $N$-dimensional complex signal from Fourier magnitude measurements. It proposes a Fourier optics setup such that signal recovery up to a global phase factor is possible with very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Çağkan Yapar , Volker Pohl , Holger Boche

Phase retrieval problem has been studied in various applications. It is an inverse problem without the standard uniqueness guarantee. To make complete theoretical analyses and devise efficient algorithms to recover the signal is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Ziyang Yuan , Hongxia Wang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Juri Ranieri , Amina Chebira , Yue M. Lu , Martin Vetterli

Phase retrieval from phaseless short-time Fourier transform (STFT) measurements is known to be inherently unstable when measurements are taken with respect to a single window. While an explicit inversion formula exists, it is useless in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Rima Alaifari , Yunan Yang

We consider the problem of recovering signals from their power spectral density. This is a classical problem referred to in literature as the phase retrieval problem, and is of paramount importance in many fields of applied sciences. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Kishore Jaganathan , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

In this paper, we investigate the uniqueness of the phase retrieval problem for the fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) of variable order. This problem occurs naturally in optics and quantum physics. More precisely, we show that if $u$ and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Philippe Jaming

If the phase retrieval problem can be solved by a method similar to that of solving a system of linear equations under the context of FFT, the time complexity of computer based phase retrieval algorithm would be reduced. Here I present such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Yuan Sun

The phase retrieval problem has a long history and is an important problem in many areas of optics. Theoretical understanding of phase retrieval is still limited and fundamental questions such as uniqueness and stability of the recovered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Henrik Ohlsson , Yonina C. Eldar

Signal inpainting is the task of restoring degraded or missing samples in a signal. In this paper we address signal inpainting when Fourier magnitudes are observed. We propose a mathematical formulation of the problem that highlights its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Louis Bahrman , Marina Krémé , Paul Magron , Antoine Deleforge

This paper considers phase retrieval from the magnitude of 1D over-sampled Fourier measurements, a classical problem that has challenged researchers in various fields of science and engineering. We show that an optimal vector in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Kejun Huang , Yonina C. Eldar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

Gabor phase retrieval for signals has attracted considerable attention in recent years. For the more general short-time linear canonical transform (STLCT), which arises naturally in optical systems and canonical time--frequency analysis,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Cheng Cheng , Baixiang Wu , Jun Xian

Motivated by the X-ray crystallography technology to determine the atomic structure of biological molecules, we study the crystallographic phase retrieval problem, arguably the leading and hardest phase retrieval setup. This problem entails…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

The short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is widely used for analyzing non-stationary signals. However, its performance is highly sensitive to its parameters, and manual or heuristic tuning often yields suboptimal results. To overcome this…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Maxime Leiber , Yosra Marnissi , Axel Barrau , Sylvain Meignen , Laurent Massoulié

The Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) has been a staple of signal processing, often being the first step for many audio tasks. A very familiar process when using the STFT is the search for the best STFT parameters, as they often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 An Zhao , Krishna Subramani , Paris Smaragdis

Fourier phase retrieval is a classical problem that deals with the recovery of an image from the amplitude measurements of its Fourier coefficients. Conventional methods solve this problem via iterative (alternating) minimization by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Rakib Hyder , Zikui Cai , M. Salman Asif

Phase retrieval consists in the recovery of a complex-valued signal from intensity-only measurements. As it pervades a broad variety of applications, many researchers have striven to develop phase-retrieval algorithms. Classical approaches…

While spike trains are obviously not band-limited, the theory of super-resolution tells us that perfect recovery of unknown spike locations and weights from low-pass Fourier transform measurements is possible provided that the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Céline Aubel , David Stotz , Helmut Bölcskei

We consider the problem of phase retrieval, namely, recovery of a signal from the magnitude of its Fourier transform, or of any other linear transform. Due to the loss of the Fourier phase information, this problem is ill-posed. Therefore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yoav Shechtman , Amir Beck , Yonina C. Eldar

Phase retrieval problems occur in a wide range of applications in physics and engineering. Usually, these problems consist in the recovery of an unknown signal from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform. In some applications, however, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert