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Reconstruction of Binary Functions and Shapes from Incomplete Frequency Information

Information Theory 2012-04-19 v3 math.IT Optimization and Control

Abstract

The characterization of a binary function by partial frequency information is considered. We show that it is possible to reconstruct binary signals from incomplete frequency measurements via the solution of a simple linear optimization problem. We further prove that if a binary function is spatially structured (e.g. a general black-white image or an indicator function of a shape), then it can be recovered from very few low frequency measurements in general. These results would lead to efficient methods of sensing, characterizing and recovering a binary signal or a shape as well as other applications like deconvolution of binary functions blurred by a low-pass filter. Numerical results are provided to demonstrate the theoretical arguments.

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@article{arxiv.1104.0446,
  title  = {Reconstruction of Binary Functions and Shapes from Incomplete Frequency Information},
  author = {Yu Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0446},
  year   = {2012}
}

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IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012

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