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In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

Phase retrieval (PR) is a popular research topic in signal processing and machine learning. However, its performance degrades significantly when the measurements are corrupted by noise or outliers. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jun Fan , Ailing Yan , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

Generally, wave field reconstructions obtained by phase-retrieval algorithms are noisy, blurred and corrupted by various artifacts such as irregular waves, spots, etc. These disturbances, arising due to many factors such as non-idealities…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-24 Artem Migukin , Mostafa Agour , Vladimir Katkovnik

We consider the phase retrieval problem, in which the observer wishes to recover a $n$-dimensional real or complex signal $\mathbf{X}^\star$ from the (possibly noisy) observation of $|\mathbf{\Phi} \mathbf{X}^\star|$, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Antoine Maillard , Florent Krzakala , Yue M. Lu , Lenka Zdeborová

This work studies phase retrieval for wave fields, aiming to recover the phase of an incoming wave from multi-plane intensity measurements behind different types of linear and nonlinear media. We show that unique phase retrieval can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yan Cheng , Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak

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

Companion paper [118] developed a powerful \emph{Random duality theory} (RDT) based analytical program to statistically characterize performance of \emph{descending} phase retrieval algorithms (dPR) (these include all variants of gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Mihailo Stojnic

This paper shows how data-driven deep generative models can be utilized to solve challenging phase retrieval problems, in which one wants to reconstruct a signal from only few intensity measurements. Classical iterative algorithms are known…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Martin Reiche , Peter Jung

Phase retrieval consists in the recovery of an unknown signal from phaseless measurements of its usually complex-valued Fourier transform. Without further assumptions, this problem is notorious to be severe ill posed such that the recovery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Robert Beinert , Saghar Rezaei

Fourier phasing is the problem of retrieving Fourier phase information from Fourier intensity data. The standard Fourier phase retrieval (without a mask) is known to have many solutions which cause the standard phasing algorithms to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Albert Fannjiang , Wenjing Liao

The recovery of a signal from the magnitudes of its transformation, like the Fourier transform, is known as the phase retrieval problem and is of big relevance in various fields of engineering and applied physics. In this paper, we present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Rossen Nenov , Dang-Khoa Nguyen , Peter Balazs , Radu Ioan Bot

The phase retrieval problem is a fundamental problem in many fields, which is appealing for investigation. It is to recover the signal vector $\tilde{x}\in\mathbb{C}^d$ from a set of $N$ measurements $b_n=|f^*_n\tilde{x}|^2,\ n=1,\cdots,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Jian-Feng Cai , Haixia Liu , Yang Wang

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

In this paper we investigate how gradient-based algorithms such as gradient descent, (multi-pass) stochastic gradient descent, its persistent variant, and the Langevin algorithm navigate non-convex loss-landscapes and which of them is able…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-22 Francesca Mignacco , Pierfrancesco Urbani , Lenka Zdeborová

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

This paper proposes a new framework to regularize the highly ill-posed and non-linear phase retrieval problem through deep generative priors using simple gradient descent algorithm. We experimentally show effectiveness of proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Phase retrieval is an ill-posed inverse problem in which classical and deep learning-based methods struggle to jointly achieve measurement fidelity and perceptual realism. We propose a novel framework for phase retrieval that leverages…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Figen S. Oktem

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

A fundamental problem in phase retrieval is to reconstruct an unknown signal from a set of magnitude-only measurements. In this work we introduce three novel quotient intensity-based models (QIMs) based a deep modification of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Jian-Feng Cai , Meng Huang , Dong Li , Yang Wang

We propose a flexible convex relaxation for the phase retrieval problem that operates in the natural domain of the signal. Therefore, we avoid the prohibitive computational cost associated with "lifting" and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg