Inversion of the noisy Radon transform on SO(3) by Gabor frames and sparse recovery principles (Q643636)

In this interesting paper, the authors consider the Radon transform \(R\) on the rotation group SO(3) and compute an approximate solution of the linear inverse problem \(Rf=g\), where only a noisy version \(g^\delta\) of \(g\) with \(\|g-g^{\delta}\|\leq \delta\) is available. First, the authors introduce the analytical framework suited for inverting the Radon transform on SO(3), namely, the Gabor transform on SO(3), its admissibility, corresponding coorbit spaces, atomic decompositions and frames. Then they focus on the problem of stable approximating the inverse of the Radon transform on SO(3). Very efficient approximation techniques as well as thrifty strategies for the computation of the stiffness matrix entries are discussed. Finally, the performance of this approach is demonstrated by numerical tests for a crystallographic recovery problem.