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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 refers to a classical nonconvex problem of recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements. Inspired by the compressed sensing technique, signal sparsity is exploited in recent studies of phase retrieval to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Zai Yang , Cishen Zhang , Lihua Xie

We improve a phase retrieval approach that uses correlation-based measurements with compactly supported measurement masks [27]. The improved algorithm admits deterministic measurement constructions together with a robust, fast recovery…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Mark A. Iwen , Brian Preskitt , Rayan Saab , Aditya Viswanathan

We consider the task of recovering two real or complex $m$-vectors from phaseless Fourier measurements of their circular convolution. Our method is a novel convex relaxation that is based on a lifted matrix recovery formulation that allows…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ali Ahmed , Alireza Aghasi , Paul Hand

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

Reconstructing a signal from squared linear (rank-one quadratic) measurements is a challenging problem with important applications in optics and imaging, where it is known as phase retrieval. This paper proposes two new phase retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Cheng Qian , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Kejun Huang , Lei Huang , H. C. So

The realm of classical phase retrieval concerns itself with the arduous task of recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements, which are fraught with inherent ambiguities. A single-exposure intensity measurement is commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yixiao Yang , Ran Tao , Kaixuan Wei , Jun Shi

The problem of recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^n$ from a set of magnitude measurements $y_i=|\langle \mathbf{a}_i, \mathbf{x} \rangle |, \; i=1,\ldots,m$ is referred as phase retrieval, which has many applications in fields of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jianfeng Cai , Meng Huang , Dong Li , Yang Wang

Given underdetermined measurements of a Positive Semi-Definite (PSD) matrix $X$ of known low rank $K$, we present a new algorithm to estimate $X$ based on recent advances in non-convex optimization schemes. We apply this in particular to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

In this paper, we consider the uniqueness of STFT phase retrieval with two window functions. We show that a complex-valued locally integrable nonseparable signal is uniquely determined up to a global phase by phaseless samples of its short…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Ting Chen , Hanwen Lu , Wenchang Sun , Yutong Zhao

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 2016-11-18 Céline Aubel , David Stotz , Helmut Bölcskei

We study the problem of estimating a low-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix from a set of rank-one measurements using sensing vectors composed of i.i.d. standard Gaussian entries, which are possibly corrupted by arbitrary outliers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yuanxin Li , Yue Sun , Yuejie Chi

Phase retrieval aims to recover a signal $x \in \mathbb{C}^{n}$ from its amplitude measurements $|<x, a_i > |^2$, $i=1,2,...,m$, where $a_i$'s are over-complete basis vectors, with $m$ at least $3n -2$ to ensure a unique solution up to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Penghang Yin , Jack Xin

We aim to find a solution $\bm{x}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ to a system of quadratic equations of the form $b_i=\lvert\bm{a}_i^*\bm{x}\rvert^2$, $i=1,2,\ldots,m$, e.g., the well-known NP-hard phase retrieval problem. As opposed to recently proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Ji Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Hongkai Zhao

Due to its appearance in a remarkably wide field of applications, such as audio processing and coherent diffraction imaging, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) phase retrieval problem has seen a great deal of attention in recent years.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Philipp Grohs , Lukas Liehr

The problem of signal recovery from its Fourier transform magnitude is of paramount importance in various fields of engineering and has been around for over 100 years. Due to the absence of phase information, some form of additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Kishore Jaganathan , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

We study the problem of recovering a signal $x\in\mathbb{C}^N$ from samples of its phaseless periodic short-time Fourier transform (STFT): the magnitude of the Fourier transform of the signal multiplied by a sliding window $w\in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Tamir Bendory , Chi-yu Cheng , Dan Edidin

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,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Meng Huang , Jinming Wen , Ran Zhang

The problem of signal recovery from the autocorrelation, or equivalently, the magnitudes of the Fourier transform, is of paramount importance in various fields of engineering. In this work, for one-dimensional signals, we give conditions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-08 Kishore Jaganathan , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

The ambiguity function (AF) is a critical tool in radar waveform design, representing the two-dimensional correlation between a transmitted signal and its time-delayed, frequency-shifted version. Obtaining a radar signal to match a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Samuel Pinilla , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Brian M. Sadler