A general approach to regularizing inverse problems with regional data using Slepian wavelets

DOI10.1088/1361-6420/AA9909zbMATH Open1383.65057arXiv1708.04462OpenAlexW2747289631WikidataQ57884355 ScholiaQ57884355MaRDI QIDQ4601437FDOQ4601437

Authors: V. Michel, Frederik J. Simons 

Publication date: 16 January 2018

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Slepian functions are orthogonal function systems that live on subdomains (for example, geographical regions on the Earth's surface, or bandlimited portions of the entire spectrum). They have been firmly established as a useful tool for the synthesis and analysis of localized (concentrated or confined) signals, and for the modeling and inversion of noise-contaminated data that are only regionally available or only of regional interest. In this paper, we consider a general abstract setup for inverse problems represented by a linear and compact operator between Hilbert spaces with a known singular-value decomposition (svd). In practice, such an svd is often only given for the case of a global expansion of the data (e.g. on the whole sphere) but not for regional data distributions. We show that, in either case, Slepian functions (associated to an arbitrarily prescribed region and the given compact operator) can be determined and applied to construct a regularization for the ill-posed regional inverse problem. Moreover, we describe an algorithm for constructing the Slepian basis via an algebraic eigenvalue problem. The obtained Slepian functions can be used to derive an svd for the combination of the regionalizing projection and the compact operator. As a result, standard regularization techniques relying on a known svd become applicable also to those inverse problems where the data are regionally given only. In particular, wavelet-based multiscale techniques can be used. An example for the latter case is elaborated theoretically and tested on two synthetic numerical examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04462

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zbMATH Keywords

waveletsregularizationHilbert spaceinverse problemsnumerical exampleill-posed problemsSlepian functionsingular-value decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for wavelets (65T60) Nonlinear ill-posed problems (47J06) Numerical solutions of ill-posed problems in abstract spaces; regularization (65J20) Numerical solution to inverse problems in abstract spaces (65J22)

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