Compressive Sensing by Random Convolution

  • Authors:
  • Justin Romberg

  • Affiliations:
  • jrom@ece.gatech.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper demonstrates that convolution with random waveform followed by random time-domain subsampling is a universally efficient compressive sensing strategy. We show that an $n$-dimensional signal which is $S$-sparse in any fixed orthonormal representation can be recovered from $m\gtrsim S\log n$ samples from its convolution with a pulse whose Fourier transform has unit magnitude and random phase at all frequencies. The time-domain subsampling can be done in one of two ways: in the first, we simply observe $m$ samples of the random convolution; in the second, we break the random convolution into $m$ blocks and summarize each with a single randomized sum. We also discuss several imaging applications where convolution with a random pulse allows us to superresolve fine-scale features, allowing us to recover high-resolution signals from low-resolution measurements.