Blind Gain and Phase Calibration via Sparse Spectral Methods

DOI10.1109/TIT.2018.2883623zbMATH Open1431.94017arXiv1712.00111OpenAlexW2963796402WikidataQ128896288 ScholiaQ128896288MaRDI QIDQ5223988FDOQ5223988

Authors: Yanjun Li, Kiryung Lee, Yoram Bresler 

Publication date: 19 July 2019

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Blind gain and phase calibration (BGPC) is a bilinear inverse problem involving the determination of unknown gains and phases of the sensing system, and the unknown signal, jointly. BGPC arises in numerous applications, e.g., blind albedo estimation in inverse rendering, synthetic aperture radar autofocus, and sensor array auto-calibration. In some cases, sparse structure in the unknown signal alleviates the ill-posedness of BGPC. Recently there has been renewed interest in solutions to BGPC with careful analysis of error bounds. In this paper, we formulate BGPC as an eigenvalue/eigenvector problem, and propose to solve it via power iteration, or in the sparsity or joint sparsity case, via truncated power iteration. Under certain assumptions, the unknown gains, phases, and the unknown signal can be recovered simultaneously. Numerical experiments show that power iteration algorithms work not only in the regime predicted by our main results, but also in regimes where theoretical analysis is limited. We also show that our power iteration algorithms for BGPC compare favorably with competing algorithms in adversarial conditions, e.g., with noisy measurement or with a bad initial estimate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00111

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Nonconvex programming, global optimization (90C26) Numerical solutions to inverse eigenvalue problems (65F18)

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