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Kronecker compressive sensing
Marco F Duarte1, Richard G Baraniuk
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. mduarte@ecs.umass.edu
Summary
Compressive sensing (CS) for multidimensional signals is advanced using Kronecker product matrices. This approach models signal structure and measurement protocols, improving sparse approximation and recovery performance in distributed settings.
Area of Science:
- Signal Processing
- Applied Mathematics
- Multidimensional Data Analysis
Background:
- Compressive Sensing (CS) traditionally focuses on 1-D signals and 2-D images.
- Acquiring multidimensional signals with CS is challenging due to higher dimensionality.
- Existing methods for multidimensional CS lack efficient sparsifying bases and measurement protocols.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce Kronecker product matrices for advanced Compressive Sensing (CS) in multidimensional signal processing.
- To utilize Kronecker products as sparsifying bases that capture inter-dimensional signal structure.
- To apply Kronecker products for representing measurement protocols in distributed CS settings.
Main Methods:
- Formulation of a CS framework using Kronecker product matrices.
- Development of analytical bounds for sparse approximation of multidimensional signals.
- Derivation of performance bounds for CS recovery in multidimensional and distributed scenarios.
Main Results:
- Kronecker product matrices effectively serve as sparsifying bases for multidimensional signals.
- The proposed method enables joint modeling of structure across all signal dimensions.
- Analytical bounds for sparse approximation and CS recovery performance were derived.
- A framework for evaluating novel distributed measurement schemes was established.
Conclusions:
- Kronecker product matrices offer a powerful tool for multidimensional Compressive Sensing.
- This approach enhances the modeling of signal structure and measurement protocols.
- The findings provide theoretical guarantees and practical evaluation methods for advanced CS applications.
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