Greedy Solution of Ill-Posed Problems: Error Bounds and Exact Inversion
For researchers in signal processing and inverse problems, this work offers a theoretical framework to apply OMP to ill-posed problems, though it is incremental as it adapts existing recovery conditions to a new class of problems.
The paper extends orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) to ill-posed inverse problems, providing error bounds and exact recovery conditions without relying on coherence. It demonstrates practical relevance through two deconvolution examples from mass spectrometry and digital holography, enabling a priori verification of experimental setups.
The orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is an algorithm to solve sparse approximation problems. Sufficient conditions for exact recovery are known with and without noise. In this paper we investigate the applicability of the OMP for the solution of ill-posed inverse problems in general and in particular for two deconvolution examples from mass spectrometry and digital holography respectively. In sparse approximation problems one often has to deal with the problem of redundancy of a dictionary, i.e. the atoms are not linearly independent. However, one expects them to be approximatively orthogonal and this is quantified by the so-called incoherence. This idea cannot be transfered to ill-posed inverse problems since here the atoms are typically far from orthogonal: The ill-posedness of the operator causes that the correlation of two distinct atoms probably gets huge, i.e. that two atoms can look much alike. Therefore one needs conditions which take the structure of the problem into account and work without the concept of coherence. In this paper we develop results for exact recovery of the support of noisy signals. In the two examples in mass spectrometry and digital holography we show that our results lead to practically relevant estimates such that one may check a priori if the experimental setup guarantees exact deconvolution with OMP. Especially in the example from digital holography our analysis may be regarded as a first step to calculate the resolution power of droplet holography.