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Worst Configurations (Instantons) for Compressed Sensing over Reals: a Channel Coding Approach
We consider the Linear Programming (LP) solution of the Compressed Sensing
(CS) problem over reals, also known as the Basis Pursuit (BasP) algorithm. The
BasP allows interpretation as a channel-coding problem, and it guarantees
error-free reconstruction with a properly chosen measurement matrix and
sufficiently sparse error vectors. In this manuscript, we examine how the BasP
performs on a given measurement matrix and develop an algorithm to discover the
sparsest vectors for which the BasP fails. The resulting algorithm is a
generalization of our previous results on finding the most probable
error-patterns degrading performance of a finite size Low-Density Parity-Check
(LDPC) code in the error-floor regime. The BasP fails when its output is
different from the actual error-pattern. We design a CS-Instanton Search
Algorithm (ISA) generating a sparse vector, called a CS-instanton, such that
the BasP fails on the CS-instanton, while the BasP recovery is successful for
any modification of the CS-instanton replacing a nonzero element by zero. We
also prove that, given a sufficiently dense random input for the error-vector,
the CS-ISA converges to an instanton in a small finite number of steps. The
performance of the CS-ISA is illustrated on a randomly generated matrix. For this example, the CS-ISA outputs the shortest instanton (error
vector) pattern of length 11.Comment: Accepted to be presented at the IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT 2010). 5 pages, 2 Figures. Minor edits from previous
version. Added a new reference
Total Variation Regularized Tensor RPCA for Background Subtraction from Compressive Measurements
Background subtraction has been a fundamental and widely studied task in
video analysis, with a wide range of applications in video surveillance,
teleconferencing and 3D modeling. Recently, motivated by compressive imaging,
background subtraction from compressive measurements (BSCM) is becoming an
active research task in video surveillance. In this paper, we propose a novel
tensor-based robust PCA (TenRPCA) approach for BSCM by decomposing video frames
into backgrounds with spatial-temporal correlations and foregrounds with
spatio-temporal continuity in a tensor framework. In this approach, we use 3D
total variation (TV) to enhance the spatio-temporal continuity of foregrounds,
and Tucker decomposition to model the spatio-temporal correlations of video
background. Based on this idea, we design a basic tensor RPCA model over the
video frames, dubbed as the holistic TenRPCA model (H-TenRPCA). To characterize
the correlations among the groups of similar 3D patches of video background, we
further design a patch-group-based tensor RPCA model (PG-TenRPCA) by joint
tensor Tucker decompositions of 3D patch groups for modeling the video
background. Efficient algorithms using alternating direction method of
multipliers (ADMM) are developed to solve the proposed models. Extensive
experiments on simulated and real-world videos demonstrate the superiority of
the proposed approaches over the existing state-of-the-art approaches.Comment: To appear in IEEE TI
Jump-sparse and sparse recovery using Potts functionals
We recover jump-sparse and sparse signals from blurred incomplete data
corrupted by (possibly non-Gaussian) noise using inverse Potts energy
functionals. We obtain analytical results (existence of minimizers, complexity)
on inverse Potts functionals and provide relations to sparsity problems. We
then propose a new optimization method for these functionals which is based on
dynamic programming and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM).
A series of experiments shows that the proposed method yields very satisfactory
jump-sparse and sparse reconstructions, respectively. We highlight the
capability of the method by comparing it with classical and recent approaches
such as TV minimization (jump-sparse signals), orthogonal matching pursuit,
iterative hard thresholding, and iteratively reweighted minimization
(sparse signals)
Distributed Sparse Signal Recovery For Sensor Networks
We propose a distributed algorithm for sparse signal recovery in sensor
networks based on Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT). Every agent has a set of
measurements of a signal x, and the objective is for the agents to recover x
from their collective measurements at a minimal communication cost and with low
computational complexity. A naive distributed implementation of IHT would
require global communication of every agent's full state in each iteration. We
find that we can dramatically reduce this communication cost by leveraging
solutions to the distributed top-K problem in the database literature.
Evaluations show that our algorithm requires up to three orders of magnitude
less total bandwidth than the best-known distributed basis pursuit method
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