Jan Kuske

Jan Kuske, Stefania Petra

The recovery of structured signals from a few linear measurements is a central point in both compressed sensing (CS) and discrete tomography. In CS the signal structure is described by means of a low complexity model e.g. co-/sparsity. The CS theory shows that any signal/image can be undersampled at a rate dependent on its intrinsic complexity. Moreover, in such undersampling regimes, the signal can be recovered by sparsity promoting convex regularization like $\ell_1$- or total variation (TV-) minimization. Precise relations between many low complexity measures and the sufficient number of random measurements are known for many sparsity promoting norms. However, a precise estimate of the undersampling rate for the TV seminorm is still lacking. We address this issue by: a) providing dual certificates testing uniqueness of a given cosparse signal with bounded signal values, b) approximating the undersampling rates via the statistical dimension of the TV descent cone and c) showing empirically that the provided rates also hold for tomographic measurements.

Paul Swoboda, Jan Kuske, Bogdan Savchynskyy

We propose a general dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems. Although methods of this type have shown their efficiency for a number of problems, so far there was no general algorithm applicable to multiple problem types. In his work, we propose such a general algorithm. It depends on several parameters, which can be used to optimize its performance in each particular setting. We demonstrate efficacy of our method on graph matching and multicut problems, where it outperforms state-of-the-art solvers including those based on subgradient optimization and off-the-shelf linear programming solvers.