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The Algebraic Approach to Phase Retrieval and Explicit Inversion at the Identifiability Threshold

2014/02/17 by Király, Franz J, Ehler, Martin
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Functional Analysis (math.FA) #Information Theory (cs.IT) #Machine Learning (stat.ML)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1402.4053

Abstract

We study phase retrieval from magnitude measurements of an unknown signal as an algebraic estimation problem. Indeed, phase retrieval from rank-one and more general linear measurements can be treated in an algebraic way. It is verified that a certain number of generic rank-one or generic linear measurements are sufficient to enable signal reconstruction for generic signals, and slightly more generic measurements yield reconstructability for all signals. Our results solve a few open problems stated in the recent literature. Furthermore, we show how the algebraic estimation problem can be solved by a closed-form algebraic estimation technique, termed ideal regression, providing non-asymptotic success guarantees.

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