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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

We answer a number of open problems concerning phase retrieval and phase retrieval by projections. In particular, one main theorem classifies phase retrieval by projections via collections of sequences of vectors allowing norm retrieval.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Jameson Cahill , Peter G. Casazza , John Jasper , Lindsey M. Woodland

The phase retrieval problem has garnered significant attention since the development of the PhaseLift algorithm, which is a convex program that operates in a lifted space of matrices. Because of the substantial computational cost due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Paul Hand , Vladislav Voroninski

Phase retrieval refers to algorithmic methods for recovering a signal from its phaseless measurements. Local search algorithms that work directly on the non-convex formulation of the problem have been very popular recently. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Rishabh Dudeja , Milad Bakhshizadeh , Junjie Ma , Arian Maleki

We consider the recovery of a (real- or complex-valued) signal from magnitude-only measurements, known as phase retrieval. We formulate phase retrieval as a convex optimization problem, which we call PhaseMax. Unlike other convex methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

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

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

Phase retrieval arises in various fields of science and engineering and it is well studied in a finite-dimensional setting. In this paper, we consider an infinite-dimensional phase retrieval problem to reconstruct real-valued signals living…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Yang Chen , Cheng Cheng , Qiyu Sun , Haichao Wang

Phase retrieval is in general a non-convex and non-linear task and the corresponding algorithms struggle with the issue of local minima. We consider the case where the measurement samples within typically very small and disconnected subsets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Jonas Kornprobst , Alexander Paulus , Josef Knapp , Thomas F. Eibert

We study convex relaxation algorithms for phase retrieval on imaging problems. We show that structural assumptions on the signal and the observations, such as sparsity, smoothness or positivity, can be exploited to both speed-up convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Fajwel Fogel , Irène Waldspurger , Alexandre d'Aspremont

In phase retrieval, the goal is to recover a complex signal from the magnitude of its linear measurements. While many well-known algorithms guarantee deterministic recovery of the unknown signal using i.i.d. random measurement matrices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Boshra Rajaei , Sylvain Gigan , Florent Krzakala , Laurent Daudet

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

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

Phase retrieval problems occur in a wide range of applications in physics and engineering. Usually, these problems consist in the recovery of an unknown signal from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform. In some applications, however, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert

Reconstructing a signal from squared linear (rank-one quadratic) measurements is a challenging problem with important applications in optics and imaging, where it is known as phase retrieval. This paper proposes two new phase retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Cheng Qian , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Kejun Huang , Lei Huang , H. C. So

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

The paper considers the phase retrieval problem in N-dimensional complex vector spaces. It provides two sets of deterministic measurement vectors which guarantee signal recovery for all signals, excluding only a specific subspace and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Volker Pohl , Fanny Yang , Holger Boche

This paper considers the phase retrieval problem in which measurements consist of only the magnitude of several linear measurements of the unknown, e.g., spectral components of a time sequence. We develop low-complexity algorithms with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Tianyu Qiu , Prabhu Babu , Daniel P. Palomar

Phase retrieval has been an attractive but difficult problem rising from physical science, and there has been a gap between state-of-the-art theoretical convergence analyses and the corresponding efficient retrieval methods. Firstly, these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Gen Li , Yuchen Jiao , Yuantao Gu

The problem of phase retrieval has been intriguing researchers for decades due to its appearance in a wide range of applications. The task of a phase retrieval algorithm is typically to recover a signal from linear phase-less measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Naveed Naimipour , Shahin Khobahi , Mojtaba Soltanalian