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We describe a new algorithm to solve a particular phase retrieval problem, that has wide applications in audio processing: the reconstruction of a function from its scalogram, that is from the modulus of its wavelet transform. It is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Irène Waldspurger

In phase retrieval we want to recover an unknown signal $\boldsymbol x\in\mathbb C^d$ from $n$ quadratic measurements of the form $y_i = |\langle{\boldsymbol a}_i,{\boldsymbol x}\rangle|^2+w_i$ where $\boldsymbol a_i\in \mathbb C^d$ are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-27 Marco Mondelli , Andrea Montanari

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 investigates phase retrieval using the Reshaped Wirtinger Flow (RWF) algorithm, focusing on recovering target vector $\vx \in \R^n$ from magnitude measurements \(y_i = \left| \langle \va_i, \vx \rangle \right|, \; i = 1, \ldots,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Linbin Li , Haiyang Peng , Yong Xia , Meng Huang

We study the low-rank phase retrieval problem, where we try to recover a $d_1\times d_2$ low-rank matrix from a series of phaseless linear measurements. This is a fourth-order inverse problem, as we are trying to recover factors of matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Kiryung Lee , Sohail Bahmani , Yonina Eldar , Justin Romberg

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

Alternating minimization, or Fienup methods, have a long history in phase retrieval. We provide new insights related to the empirical and theoretical analysis of these algorithms when used with Fourier measurements and combined with convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Edouard Pauwels , Amir Beck , Yonina C. Eldar , Shoham Sabach

We study the problem of recovering the phase from magnitude measurements; specifically, we wish to reconstruct a complex-valued signal x of C^n about which we have phaseless samples of the form y_r = |< a_r,x >|^2, r = 1,2,...,m (knowledge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Emmanuel Candes , Xiaodong Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

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 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 study generative compressed sensing when the measurement matrix is randomly subsampled from a unitary matrix (with the DFT as an important special case). It was recently shown that $\textit{O}(kdn\| \boldsymbol{\alpha}\|_{\infty}^{2})$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Aaron Berk , Simone Brugiapaglia , Yaniv Plan , Matthew Scott , Xia Sheng , Ozgur Yilmaz

We propose a method based on sinc series approximations for computing the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld and Fresnel diffraction integrals of optics. The diffraction integrals are given in terms of a convolution, and our proposed numerical approach is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Max Cubillos , Edwin Jimenez

Anisotropic two-dimensional diffraction signals encode additional structural information, including atom-pair angular distributions, beyond conventional isotropic scattering. However, experimental constraints such as beam stops result in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Yanwei Xiong , Martin Centurion

This paper explores the problem of generalized phase retrieval, which involves reconstructing a length-$n$ signal $\bm{x}$ from its $m$ phaseless samples $y_k = \left|\langle \bm{a}_k,\bm{x}\rangle\right|^2$, where $k = 1,2,...,m$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jianfeng Cai , Huiping Li , Jiayi Li

We study the sparse phase retrieval problem, which seeks to recover a sparse signal from a limited set of magnitude-only measurements. In contrast to prevalent sparse phase retrieval algorithms that primarily use first-order methods, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jian-Feng Cai , Yu Long , Ruixue Wen , Jiaxi Ying

A new method for phase recovery from a single two-beam interferogram is presented. Conventional approaches, relying on trigonometric inversion followed by phase unfolding and unwrapping, are hindered by discontinuities typically addressed…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 V. Berejnov , B. Y. Rubinstein

In this paper, the inverse problem of reconstructing reflectivity function of a medium is examined within a blind deconvolution framework. The ultrasound pulse is estimated using higher-order statistics, and Wiener filter is used to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Roberto Henry Herrera , Rubén Orozco , Manuel Rodríguez

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

We study the problem of measurement-induced decoherence using the phase-space approach employing the Gaussian-smoothed Wigner distribution function. Our investigation is based on the notion that measurement-induced decoherence is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yong-Jin Chun , Hai-Woong Lee

Information about microscopic objects with features smaller than the diffraction limit is almost entirely lost in a far-field diffraction image but could be partly recovered with data completition techniques. Any such approach critically…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-17 Maria Bancerek , Krzysztof M. Czajkowski , Rafal Kotynski