Deterministic construction of Fourier-based compressed sensing matrices using an almost difference set

Abstract

In this paper, a new class of Fourier-based matrices is studied for deterministic compressed sensing. Initially, a basic partial Fourier matrix is introduced by choosing the rows deterministically from the inverse discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix. By row/column rearrangement, the matrix is represented as a concatenation of DFT-based submatrices. Then, a full or a part of columns of the concatenated matrix is selected to build a new M × N deterministic compressed sensing matrix, where M = p r and N = L(M + 1) for prime p, and positive integers r and L ≤ M - 1. Theoretically, the sensing matrix forms a tight frame with small coherence. Moreover, the matrix theoretically guarantees unique recovery of sparse signals with uniformly distributed supports. From the structure of the sensing matrix, the fast Fourier transform (FFT) technique can be applied for efficient signal measurement and reconstruction. Experimental results demonstrate that the new deterministic sensing matrix shows empirically reliable recovery performance of sparse signals by the CoSaMP algorithm. © 2013 Yu and Li; licensee Springer.