Recovering linear images of sparse signals from indirect observations

Abstract

In this paper, we develop and analyze techniques for recovering a linear image $Bx$ of an unknown signal $x$ from indirect noisy observation $ω=Ax+ξ$. It is {\em a priori} known that $x\in \cX$, a given convex compact set, and that $x$ is $s$-sparse---has at most $s$ nonvanishing entries. The proposed estimates belong to a large family of recovery routines by $\ell_1$-minimization. However, unlike the classical result describing performance of such estimates, we do not make any special (and hard to check) assumptions about the sensing matrix $A$ such as nullspace or Restricted Isometry condition and the like. As a consequence, parameters of the estimates and the upper bounds on their risks are not available in a closed analytic form, but are delivered instead by efficient computation as solutions to explicit convex optimization problems.