We explicitly give a frame of cardinality $5n-6$ such that every signal in $\mathbb{C}^n$ can be recovered up to a phase from its associated intensity measurements via the PhaseLift approach. Furthermore, we give explicit linear measurements with $4r(n-r)+n-2r$ outcomes that enable the recovery of every positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrix of rank at most $r$.
The aim of sparse phase retrieval is to recover a $k$-sparse signal $\mathbf{x}_0\in \mathbb{C}^{d}$ from quadratic measurements $|\langle \mathbf{a}_i,\mathbf{x}_0\rangle|^2$ where $\mathbf{a}_i\in \mathbb{C}^d, i=1,\ldots,m$. Noting $|\langle \mathbf{a}_i,\mathbf{x}_0\rangle|^2={\text{Tr}}(A_iX_0)$ with $A_i=\mathbf{a}_i\mathbf{a}_i^*\in \mathbb{C}^{d\times d}, X_0=\mathbf{x}_0\mathbf{x}_0^*\in \mathbb{C}^{d\times d}$, one can recast sparse phase retrieval as a problem of recovering a rank-one sparse matrix from linear measurements. Yin and Xin introduced PhaseLiftOff which presents a proxy …
We consider a variant of the phase retrieval problem, where vectors are replaced by unitary matrices, i.e., the unknown signal is a unitary matrix U, and the measurements consist of squared inner products |Tr(C*U)|^2 with unitary matrices C that are chosen by the observer. This problem has applications to quantum process tomography, when the unknown process is a unitary operation. We show that PhaseLift, a convex programming algorithm for phase retrieval, can be adapted to this matrix setting, using measurements that are sampled from unitary 4- and 2-designs. In the case of unitary 4-design me…
The problem of retrieving phase information from amplitude measurements alone has appeared in many scientific disciplines over the last century. PhaseLift is a recently introduced algorithm for phase recovery that is computationally efficient, numerically stable, and comes with rigorous performance guarantees. PhaseLift is optimal in the sense that the number of amplitude measurements required for phase reconstruction scales linearly with the dimension of the signal. However, it specifically demands Gaussian random measurement vectors - a limitation that restricts practical utility and obscure…
In this work we analyze the problem of phase retrieval from Fourier measurements with random diffraction patterns. To this end, we consider the recently introduced PhaseLift algorithm, which expresses the problem in the language of convex optimization. We provide recovery guarantees which require O(log^2 d) different diffraction patterns, thus improving on recent results by Candes et al. [arXiv:1310.3240], which require O(log^4 d) different patterns.
在成像科学的许多领域中,难以测量线性测量的相位。因此,人们通常希望从强度测量重构信号,即,执行相位恢复。在本文中,我们提供了一种新的测量设计,它的灵感来自干涉测量,并利用扩展图的某些属性。我们还给出了一个有效的相位恢复程序,并使用谱图理论中的最新结果来产生一个稳定的性能保证,该保证可与[Candes et al. 2011]中的PhaseLift保证相媲美。我们使用数值模拟来说明我们的相位恢复程序的性能,我们比较重建误差和运行时间与一个共同的交替投影型程序。
In the context of the phase retrieval problem, it is known that certain natural classes of measurements, such as Fourier measurements and random Bernoulli measurements, do not lead to the unique reconstruction of all possible signals, even in combination with certain practically feasible random masks. To avoid this difficulty, the analysis is often restricted to measurement ensembles (or masks) that satisfy a small-ball probability condition, in order to ensure that the reconstruction is unique. This paper shows a complementary result: for random Bernoulli measurements, there is still a large …
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 lifting, many approaches to phase retrieval have been developed, including non-convex optimization algorithms which operate in the natural parameter space, such as Wirtinger Flow. Very recently, a convex formulation called PhaseMax has been discovered, and it has been proven to achieve phase retrieval via linear programming in the natural parameter space under …
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) in methods such as PhaseLift and compete with recently developed non-convex techniques for phase retrieval. We relax the quadratic equations for phaseless measurements to inequality constraints each of which representing a symmetric "slab". Through a simple convex program, our proposed estimator finds an extreme point of the intersection of these slabs that i…
Phase retrieval refers to the problem of reconstructing an unknown vector $x_0 \in \mathbb{C}^n$ or $x_0 \in \mathbb{R}^n $ from $m$ measurements of the form $y_i = \big\vert \langle ξ^{\left(i\right)}, x_0 \rangle \big\vert^2 $, where $ \left\{ ξ^{\left(i\right)} \right\}^m_{i=1} \subset \mathbb{C}^m $ are known measurement vectors. While Gaussian measurements allow for recovery of arbitrary signals provided the number of measurements scales at least linearly in the number of dimensions, it has been shown that ambiguities may arise for certain other classes of measurements $ \left\{ ξ^{\left(…
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 union of subspaces, respectively. A stable analytic reconstruction procedure of low complexity is given. Additionally it is proven that signal recovery from these measurements can be solved exactly via a semidefinite program. A practical implementation with 4 deterministic diffraction patterns is provided and some numerical experiments with noisy measurements co…
In this paper, we analyze the non-convex framework of Wirtinger Flow (WF) for phase retrieval and identify a novel sufficient condition for universal exact recovery through the lens of low rank matrix recovery theory. Via a perspective in the lifted domain, we show that the convergence of the WF iterates to a true solution is attained geometrically under a single condition on the lifted forward model. As a result, a deterministic relationship between the accuracy of spectral initialization and the validity of {the regularity condition} is derived. In particular, we determine that a certain con…
In this paper, we introduce two symmetric directed graphs depending on supports of signals and windows, and we show that the connectivity of those graphs provides either necessary and sufficient conditions to phase retrieval of a signal from magnitude measurements of its multiple-window short-time Fourier transform. Also we propose an algebraic reconstruction algorithm, and provide an error estimate to our algorithm when magnitude measurements are corrupted by deterministic/random noises.
In phase retrieval problems, a signal of interest (SOI) is reconstructed based on the magnitude of a linear transformation of the SOI observed with additive noise. The linear transform is typically referred to as a measurement matrix. Many works on phase retrieval assume that the measurement matrix is a random Gaussian matrix, which, in the noiseless scenario with sufficiently many measurements, guarantees invertability of the transformation between the SOI and the observations, up to an inherent phase ambiguity. However, in many practical applications, the measurement matrix corresponds to an…
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, they suffer serious convergence issues some ill-conditioned matrices. As an example, this happens in optical imagers using binary intensity-only spatial light modulators to shape the input wavefront. The problem of ill-conditioned measurement matrices has also been a topic of interest for compressed sensing researchers during the past decade. In this paper, usi…
In this paper, we develop a new computational approach which is based on minimizing the difference of two convex functionals (DC) to solve a broader class of phase retrieval problems. The approach splits a standard nonlinear least squares minimizing function associated with the phase retrieval problem into the difference of two convex functions and then solves a sequence of convex minimization sub-problems. For each subproblem, the Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm or the Barzilai-Borwein (BB) algorithm is used. In the setting of sparse phase retrieval, a standard $\ell_1$ norm…
In the phase retrieval problem one seeks to recover an unknown $n$ dimensional signal vector $\mathbf{x}$ from $m$ measurements of the form $y_i = |(\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x})_i|$, where $\mathbf{A}$ denotes the sensing matrix. Many algorithms for this problem are based on approximate message passing. For these algorithms, it is known that if the sensing matrix $\mathbf{A}$ is generated by sub-sampling $n$ columns of a uniformly random (i.e., Haar distributed) orthogonal matrix, in the high dimensional asymptotic regime ($m,n \rightarrow \infty, n/m \rightarrow κ$), the dynamics of the algorithm a…
In this work we characterize all ambiguities of the linear (aperiodic) one-dimensional convolution on two fixed finite-dimensional complex vector spaces. It will be shown that the convolution ambiguities can be mapped one-to-one to factorization ambiguities in the $z-$domain, which are generated by swapping the zeros of the input signals. We use this polynomial description to show a deterministic version of a recently introduced masked Fourier phase retrieval design. In the noise-free case a (convex) semi-definite program can be used to recover exactly the input signals if they share no common…
Phase retrieval refers to the problem of recovering some signal (which is often modelled as an element of a Hilbert space) from phaseless measurements. It has been shown that in the deterministic setting phase retrieval from frame coefficients is always unstable in infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces [7] and possibly severely ill-conditioned in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces [7]. Recently, it has also been shown that phase retrieval from measurements induced by the Gabor transform with Gaussian window function is stable under a more relaxed semi-global phase recovery regime based on atoll f…
The phase retrieval problem asks to recover a natural signal $y_0 \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ quadratic observations, where $m$ is to be minimized. As is common in many imaging problems, natural signals are considered sparse with respect to a known basis, and the generic sparsity prior is enforced via $\ell_1$ regularization. While successful in the realm of linear inverse problems, such $\ell_1$ methods have encountered possibly fundamental limitations, as no computationally efficient algorithm for phase retrieval of a $k$-sparse signal has been proven to succeed with fewer than $O(k^2\log n)$…