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The paper considers the phase retrieval problem in N-dimensional complex vector spaces. It provides two sets of deterministic measurement vectors which guarantee signal recovery for all signals, excluding only a specific subspace and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Volker Pohl , Fanny Yang , Holger Boche

The classical problem of phase retrieval has found a wide array of applications in optics, imaging and signal processing. In this paper, we consider the phase retrieval problem in a one-bit setting, where the signals are sampled using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Arian Eamaz , Farhang Yeganegi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

Consider a scenario in which an unknown signal is transformed by a known linear operator, and then the pointwise absolute value of the unknown output function is reported. This scenario appears in several applications, and the goal is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Dustin G. Mixon

Phase retrieval (PR), also sometimes referred to as quadratic sensing, is a problem that occurs in numerous signal and image acquisition domains ranging from optics, X-ray crystallography, Fourier ptychography, sub-diffraction imaging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Namrata Vaswani

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

The Phase Retrieval problem is dealt with for the challenging case where just a single set of (phaseless) radiated field data is available. In particular, even still emulating the solution of crosswords puzzles, we provide decisive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Giada Maria Battaglia , Andrea Francesco Morabito , Roberta Palmeri , Tommaso Isernia

In this work we develop an algorithm for signal reconstruction from the magnitude of its Fourier transform in a situation where some (non-zero) parts of the sought signal are known. Although our method does not assume that the known part…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-06 Eliyahu Osherovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Irad Yavneh

Several strategies in phase retrieval are unified by an iterative "difference map" constructed from a pair of elementary projections and a single real parameter $\beta$. For the standard application in optics, where the two projections…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Veit Elser

Phase retrieval is in general a non-convex and non-linear task and the corresponding algorithms struggle with the issue of local minima. We consider the case where the measurement samples within typically very small and disconnected subsets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Jonas Kornprobst , Alexander Paulus , Josef Knapp , Thomas F. Eibert

Phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of recovering a function from the squared magnitude of its Fourier transform, arises in many applications such as X-ray crystallography, diffraction imaging, optics, quantum mechanics, and astronomy. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Albert Fannjiang , Thomas Strohmer

This paper aims to address the phase retrieval problem from subgaussian measurements with arbitrary noise, with a focus on devising robust and efficient algorithms for solving non-convex problems. To ensure uniqueness of solutions in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Haiyang Peng , Deren Han , Linbin Li , Meng Huang

We continue studies on phase retrieval for continuous and discrete Fourier transforms in multidimensions. Using finite difference operators, we give a large class of unexpected examples of non-uniqueness for this problem, including examples…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Roman Novikov , Tianli Xu

The problem of recovering a pair of signals from their blind phaseless short-time Fourier transform measurements arises in several important phase retrieval applications, including ptychography and ultra-short pulse characterization. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin , Yonina C. Eldar

The non-negative solution to an underdetermined linear system can be uniquely recovered sometimes, even without imposing any additional sparsity constraints. In this paper, we derive conditions under which a unique non-negative solution for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Andreas Spanias

We give a large class of examples of non-uniqueness for the phase retrieval problem in multidimensions. Our constructions are based on "oblique tensorization", where one-dimensional results are strongly used, and its generalizations towards…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Roman Novikov , Tianli Xu

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a complex signal from amplitude-only measurements, a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Current theory and algorithms often ignore signal priors. By contrast, we evaluate here a variety of image priors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Stanislas Ducotterd , Zhiyuan Hu , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

We present the first phase retrieval algorithm guaranteed to solve the multidimensional phase retrieval problem in polynomial arithmetic complexity without prior information. The method successfully terminates in O(N log(N)) operations for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Cole Brabec , Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills , Luca Daniel , Dirk Englund

The problem of recovering a one-dimensional signal from its Fourier transform magnitude, called Fourier phase retrieval, is ill-posed in most cases. We consider the closely-related problem of recovering a signal from its phaseless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Tamir Bendory , Yonina C. Eldar , Nicolas Boumal

Fourier phase retrieval, which seeks to reconstruct a signal from its Fourier magnitude, is of fundamental importance in fields of engineering and science. In this paper, we give a theoretical understanding of algorithms for Fourier phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Meng Huang , Zhiqiang Xu

The problem of phase retrieval is revisited and studied from a fresh perspective. In particular, we establish a connection between the phase retrieval problem and the sensor network localization problem, which allows us to utilize the vast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Sherry Xue-Ying Ni , Man-Chung Yue , Kam-Fung Cheung , Anthony Man-Cho So