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Phase retrieval seeks to recover a signal x from the amplitude |Ax| of linear measurements. We cast the phase retrieval problem as a non-convex quadratic program over a complex phase vector and formulate a tractable relaxation (called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Irène Waldspurger , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Stéphane Mallat

We consider the phase retrieval problem of reconstructing a $n$-dimensional real or complex signal $\mathbf{X}^{\star}$ from $m$ (possibly noisy) observations $Y_\mu = | \sum_{i=1}^n \Phi_{\mu i} X^{\star}_i/\sqrt{n}|$, for a large class of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Antoine Maillard , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

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

Iterative phase retrieval algorithms typically employ projections onto constraint subspaces to recover the unknown phases in the Fourier transform of an image, or, in the case of x-ray crystallography, the electron density of a molecule.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Veit Elser

We study algorithms for solving quadratic systems of equations based on optimization methods over polytopes. Our work is inspired by a recently proposed convex formulation of the phase retrieval problem, which estimates the unknown signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Oussama Dhifallah , Christos Thrampoulidis , Yue M. Lu

The one-dimensional phase retrieval problem consists in the recovery of a complex-valued signal from its Fourier intensity. Due to the well-known ambiguousness of this problem, the determination of the original signal within the extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert

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

We consider the classical 1D phase retrieval problem. In order to overcome the difficulties associated with phase retrieval from measurements of the Fourier magnitude, we treat recovery from the magnitude of the short-time Fourier transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Yonina C. Eldar , Pavel Sidorenko , Dustin G. Mixon , Shaby Barel , Oren Cohen

Recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude is referred to as phase retrieval, which occurs in different fields of engineering and applied physics. This paper gives a new characterization of the phase retrieval problem. Particularly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Wing Hong Wong , Yifei Lou , Stefano Marchesini , Tieyong Zeng

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

The retrieval of phases from intensity measurements is a key process in many fields in science, from optical microscopy to x-ray crystallography. Here we study phase retrieval of a one-dimensional multi-phase object that is illuminated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Liat Liberman , Yonatan Israel , Eilon Poem , Yaron Silberberg

Reconstructing images from their Fourier magnitude measurements is a problem that often arises in different research areas. This process is also referred to as phase retrieval. In this work, we consider a modified version of the phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Tobias Uelwer , Nick Rucks , Stefan Harmeling

Phase retrieval (PR) concerns the recovery of complex phases from complex magnitudes. We identify the connection between the difficulty level and the number and variety of symmetries in PR problems. We focus on the most difficult far-field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhong Zhuang , David Yang , Felix Hofmann , David Barmherzig , Ju Sun

Generally, phase retrieval problem can be viewed as the reconstruction of a function/signal from only the magnitude of the linear measurements. These measurements can be, for example, the Fourier transform of the density function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Bing Gao , Haixia Liu , Yang Wang

We study an approach to solving the phase retrieval problem as it arises in a phase-less imaging modality known as ptychography. In ptychography, small overlapping sections of an unknown sample (or signal, say $x_0\in \mathbb{C}^d$) are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Brian Preskitt , Rayan Saab

Phase retrieval has become a very active area of research. We will classify when phase retrieval by Parseval frames passes to the Naimark complement and when phase retrieval by projections passes to the orthogonal complements. We introduce…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Saeid Bahmanpour , Jameson Cahill , Peter G. Casazza , John Jasper , Lindsey M. Woodland

In coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy the diffraction pattern generated by a sample illuminated with coherent x-rays is recorded, and a computer algorithm recovers the unmeasured phases to synthesize an image. By avoiding the use of a…

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

Recovering a signal from its Fourier intensity underlies many important applications, including lensless imaging and imaging through scattering media. Conventional algorithms for retrieving the phase suffer when noise is present but display…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Yaotian Wang , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

In diffraction imaging, one is tasked with reconstructing a signal from its power spectrum. To resolve the ambiguity in this inverse problem, one might invoke prior knowledge about the signal, but phase retrieval algorithms in this vein…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Afonso S. Bandeira , Yutong Chen , Dustin G. Mixon