Constrained blind deconvolution using Wirtinger flow methods

Philipp Walk, Peter Jung, Babak Hassibi

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Abstract

In this work we consider one-dimensional blind deconvolution with prior knowledge of signal autocorrelations in the classical framework of polynomial factorization. In particular this univariate case highly suffers from several non-trivial ambiguities and therefore blind deconvolution is known to be ill-posed in general. However, if additional autocorrelation information is available and the corresponding polynomials are co-prime, blind deconvolution is uniquely solvable up to global phase. Using lifting, the outer product of the unknown vectors is the solution to a (convex) semi-definite program (SDP) demonstrating that -theoretically- recovery is computationally tractable. However, for practical applications efficient algorithms are required which should operate in the original signal space. To this end we also discuss a gradient descent algorithm (Wirtinger flow) for the original non-convex problem. We demonstrate numerically that such an approach has performance comparable to the semidefinite program in the noisy case. Our work is motivated by applications in blind communication scenarios and we will discuss a specific signaling scheme where information is encoded into polynomial roots.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2017 International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages322-326
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781538615652
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 4 2017
Externally publishedYes

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