Inverting spectrogram measurements via aliased Wigner distribution deconvolution and angular synchronization

Abstract

Abstract We propose a two-step approach for reconstructing a signal $\textbf x\in \mathbb{C}^d$ from subsampled discrete short-time Fourier transform magnitude (spectogram) measurements: first, we use an aliased Wigner distribution deconvolution approach to solve for a portion of the rank-one matrix $\widehat{\textbf{x}}\widehat{\textbf{x}}^{*}.$ Secondly, we use angular synchronization to solve for $\widehat{\textbf{x}}$ (and then for $\textbf{x}$ by Fourier inversion). Using this method, we produce two new efficient phase retrieval algorithms that perform well numerically in comparison to standard approaches and also prove two theorems; one which guarantees the recovery of discrete, bandlimited signals $\textbf{x}\in \mathbb{C}^{d}$ from fewer than $d$ short-time Fourier transform magnitude measurements and another which establishes a new class of deterministic coded diffraction pattern   measurements which are guaranteed to allow efficient and noise robust recovery.