期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
卷 55, 期 10, 页码 4701-4714出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2027565
关键词
Bayesian; maximum a posteriori probability (MAP); minimum-mean-squared error (MMSE); sparse representations
资金
- Center for Security Science and Technology - Technion
- EU [225913]
Cleaning of noise from signals is a classical and long-studied problem in signal processing. Algorithms for this task necessarily rely on an a priori knowledge about the signal characteristics, along with information about the noise properties. For signals that admit sparse representations over a known dictionary, a commonly used denoising technique is to seek the sparsest representation that synthesizes a signal close enough to the corrupted one. As this problem is too complex in general, approximation methods, such as greedy pursuit algorithms, are often employed. In this line of reasoning, we are led to believe that detection of the sparsest representation is key in the success of the denoising goal. Does this mean that other competitive and slightly inferior sparse representations are meaningless? Suppose we are served with a group of competing sparse representations, each claiming to explain the signal differently. Can those be fused somehow to lead to a better result? Surprisingly, the answer to this question is positive; merging these representations can form a more accurate (in the mean-squared-error (MSE) sense), yet dense, estimate of the original signal even when the latter is known to be sparse. In this paper, we demonstrate this behavior, propose a practical way to generate such a collection of representations by randomizing the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) algorithm, and produce a clear analytical justification for the superiority of the associated Randomized OMP (RandOMP) algorithm. We show that while the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimator aims to find and use the sparsest representation, the minimum mean-squared-error (MMSE) estimator leads to a fusion of representations to form its result. Thus, working with an appropriate mixture of candidate representations, we are surpassing the MAP and tending towards the MMSE estimate, and thereby getting a far more accurate estimation in terms of the expected norm error.
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