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The recovery of a signal from the magnitude of its Fourier transform, also known as phase retrieval, is of fundamental importance in many scientific fields. It is well known that due to the loss of Fourier phase the problem in 1D is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Dani Kogan , Yonina C. Eldar , Dan Oron

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

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

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

The problem of recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude is of paramount importance in various fields of engineering and applied physics. Due to the absence of Fourier phase information, some form of additional information is required…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Kishore Jaganathan , Yonina C. Eldar , Babak Hassibi

We study the complexity of the problem of searching for a set of patterns that separate two given sets of strings. This problem has applications in a wide variety of areas, most notably in data mining, computational biology, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Giuseppe Lancia , Luke Mathieson , Pablo Moscato

In this letter, we consider a problem of reconstructing an unknown discrete signal taking values in a finite alphabet from incomplete linear measurements. The difficulty of this problem is that the computational complexity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Masaaki Nagahara

The generalized phase retrieval problem over compact groups aims to recover a set of matrices -- representing an unknown signal -- from their associated Gram matrices. This framework generalizes the classical phase retrieval problem, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Tal Amir , Tamir Bendory , Nadav Dym , Dan Edidin

Signal inpainting is the task of restoring degraded or missing samples in a signal. In this paper we address signal inpainting when Fourier magnitudes are observed. We propose a mathematical formulation of the problem that highlights its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Louis Bahrman , Marina Krémé , Paul Magron , Antoine Deleforge

Any object on earth has two fundamental properties: it is finite, and it is made of atoms. Structural information about an object can be obtained from diffraction amplitude measurements that account for either one of these traits.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Marchesini

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 explore a fundamental problem of super-resolving a signal of interest from a few measurements of its low-pass magnitudes. We propose a 2-stage tractable algorithm that, in the absence of noise, admits perfect super-resolution of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Yuxin Chen , Yonina C. Eldar , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Phase retrieval consists in the recovery of a complex-valued signal from intensity-only measurements. As it pervades a broad variety of applications, many researchers have striven to develop phase-retrieval algorithms. Classical approaches…

Bit retrieval, the problem of determining a binary sequence from its cyclic autocorrelation, is a special case of the phase retrieval problem. Algorithms for phase retrieval are extensively used in several scientific disciplines, and yet,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Veit Elser

One of the most powerful approaches to imaging at the nanometer or subnanometer length scale is coherent diffraction imaging using X-ray sources. For amorphous (non-crystalline) samples, the raw data can be interpreted as the modulus of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Alexander Barnett , Charles L. Epstein , Leslie Greengard , Jeremy Magland

The phase retrieval problem in the classical setting is to reconstruct real/complex functions from the magnitudes of their Fourier/frame measurements. In this paper, we consider a new phase retrieval paradigm in the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Yang Chen , Cheng Cheng , Qiyu Sun

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

Considering the ambiguousness of the discrete-time phase retrieval problem to recover a signal from its Fourier intensities, one can ask the question: what additional information about the unknown signal do we need to select the correct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Robert Beinert , Gerlind Plonka

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

This paper discusses the noisy phase retrieval problem: recovering a complex image signal with independent noise from quadratic measurements. Inspired by the dark fringes shown in the measured images of the array detector, a novel phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Wen-Kai Yu , An-Dong Xiong , Xu-Ri Yao , Guang-Jie Zhai , Qing Zhao