From weighted least squares estimation to sparse CS reconstruction

Otmar Loffeld, Thomas Espeter, Miguel Heredia Conde · 2015

This paper describes a recursive ℓ1-minimizing approach to CS reconstruction by Kalman filtering. Unlike other approaches using sparsity enforcing a priory density distributions, we consider the ℓ1-norm as an explicit constraint, formulated as a nonlinear observation of some state to be estimated, which we can additionally (re-)weight, either according to confidence levels or with respect to reweighted ℓ1-minimization. Interpreting a sparse vector to be estimated as a state which is observed from erroneous (even undersampled) measurements we can easily address time- and space-variant sparsity, any kind of a priori information and also easily address nonstationary error influences in the measurements available. Inherently in our approach we move slightly away from one of the classical RIP based approaches to a more intuitive understanding of the structure of the null space which is implicitly related to the well understood engineering concepts of deterministic and stochastic observability in estimation theory.

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