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A Theory of Super-Resolution from Short-Time Fourier Transform Measurements

Céline Aubel·David Stotz·Helmut Bölcskei
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While spike trains are obviously not band-limited, the theory of super-resolution tells us that perfect recovery of unknown spike locations and weights from low-pass Fourier transform measurements is possible provided that the minimum spacing, $Δ$, between spikes is not too small. Specifically, for a measurement cutoff frequency of $f_c$, Donoho [2] showed that exact recovery is possible if the spikes (on $\mathbb{R}$) lie on a lattice and $Δ> 1/f_c$, but does not specify a corresponding recovery method. Cand$\text{è}$s and Fernandez-Granda [3, 4] provide a convex programming method for the recovery of periodic spike trains (i.e., spike trains on the torus $\mathbb{T}$), which succeeds provably if $Δ> 2/f_c$ and $f_c \geq 128$ or if $Δ> 1.26/f_c$ and $f_c \geq 10^3$, and does not need the spikes within the fundamental period to lie on a lattice. In this paper, we develop a theory of super-resolution from short-time Fourier transform (STFT) measurements. Specifically, we present a recovery method similar in spirit to the one in [3] for pure Fourier measurements. For a STFT Gaussian window function of width $σ= 1/(4f_c)$ this method succeeds provably if $Δ> 1/f_c$, without restrictions on $f_c$. Our theory is based on a measure-theoretic formulation of the recovery problem, which leads to considerable generality in the sense of the results being grid-free and applying to spike trains on both $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{T}$. The case of spike trains on $\mathbb{R}$ comes with significant technical challenges. For recovery of spike trains on $\mathbb{T}$ we prove that the correct solution can be approximated---in weak-* topology---by solving a sequence of finite-dimensional convex programming problems.

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Céline Aubel, David Stotz, Helmut Bölcskei. 2017-01-23. A Theory of Super-Resolution from Short-Time Fourier Transform Measurements. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01047

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