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The purpose of this article is to discuss recent advances in the growing field of phase retrieval, and to publicize open problems that we believe will be of interest to mathematicians in general, and algebraists in particular.

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

Several strategies in phase retrieval are unified by an iterative "difference map" constructed from a pair of elementary projections and a single real parameter $\beta$. For the standard application in optics, where the two projections…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Veit Elser

Phase retrieval aims to recover a signal from magnitude or power spectra measurements. It is often addressed by considering a minimization problem involving a quadratic cost function. We propose a different formulation based on Bregman…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pierre-Hugo Vial , Paul Magron , Thomas Oberlin , Cédric Févotte

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

The problem of recovering a signal from its phaseless Fourier transform measurements, called Fourier phase retrieval, arises in many applications in engineering and science. Fourier phase retrieval poses fundamental theoretical and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Tamir Bendory , Robert Beinert , Yonina C. Eldar

Phase retrieval in dynamical sampling is a novel research direction, where an unknown signal has to be recovered from the phaseless measurements with respect to a dynamical frame, i.e. a sequence of sampling vectors constructed by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert , Marzieh Hasannasab

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

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 is dealt with for the challenging case where just a single set of (phaseless) radiated field data is available. In particular, even still emulating the solution of crosswords puzzles, we provide decisive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Giada Maria Battaglia , Andrea Francesco Morabito , Roberta Palmeri , Tommaso Isernia

This paper develops a novel framework for phase retrieval, a problem which arises in X-ray crystallography, diffraction imaging, astronomical imaging and many other applications. Our approach combines multiple structured illuminations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yonina Eldar , Thomas Strohmer , Vlad Voroninski

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

Real-valued Phase retrieval is a non-convex continuous inference problem, where a high-dimensional signal is to be reconstructed from a dataset of signless linear measurements. Focusing on the noiseless case, we aim to disentangle the two…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-07 Davide Straziota , Luca Saglietti

Phase retrieval is a well known ill-posed inverse problem where one tries to recover images given only the magnitude values of their Fourier transform as input. In recent years, new algorithms based on deep learning have been proposed,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Leon Gugel , Shai Dekel

Phase retrieval problems in antenna measurements arise when a reference phase cannot be provided to all measurement locations. Phase retrieval algorithms require sufficiently many independent measurement samples of the radiated fields to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Josef Knapp , Alexander Paulus , Jonas Kornprobst , Uwe Siart , Thomas F. Eibert

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

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

Phase retrieval (PR) aims to recover a signal from the magnitudes of a set of inner products. This problem arises in many audio signal processing applications which operate on a short-time Fourier transform magnitude or power spectrogram,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Pierre-Hugo Vial , Paul Magron , Thomas Oberlin , Cédric Févotte

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

One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

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