Guarantees of Total Variation Minimization for Signal Recovery
This provides theoretical guarantees for signal recovery in compressed sensing, addressing an open problem but is incremental as it focuses on 1D signals and extends partially to multidimensional cases.
The paper tackles the problem of proving performance guarantees for total variation minimization in recovering signals with sparse gradient support from limited measurements, establishing that recoverable gradient sparsity grows linearly with signal dimension and providing a lower bound of Ω((NK)^{1/2}) on the number of measurements needed for 1D signals.
In this paper, we consider using total variation minimization to recover signals whose gradients have a sparse support, from a small number of measurements. We establish the proof for the performance guarantee of total variation (TV) minimization in recovering \emph{one-dimensional} signal with sparse gradient support. This partially answers the open problem of proving the fidelity of total variation minimization in such a setting \cite{TVMulti}. In particular, we have shown that the recoverable gradient sparsity can grow linearly with the signal dimension when TV minimization is used. Recoverable sparsity thresholds of TV minimization are explicitly computed for 1-dimensional signal by using the Grassmann angle framework. We also extend our results to TV minimization for multidimensional signals. Stability of recovering signal itself using 1-D TV minimization has also been established through a property called "almost Euclidean property for 1-dimensional TV norm". We further give a lower bound on the number of random Gaussian measurements for recovering 1-dimensional signal vectors with $N$ elements and $K$-sparse gradients. Interestingly, the number of needed measurements is lower bounded by $Ω((NK)^{\frac{1}{2}})$, rather than the $O(K\log(N/K))$ bound frequently appearing in recovering $K$-sparse signal vectors.