Reconstruction of stationary and non-stationary signals by the generalized Prony method

Abstract

We employ the generalized Prony method in [T. Peter and G. Plonka, A generalized Prony method for reconstruction of sparse sums of eigenfunctions of linear operators, Inverse Problems 29 (2013) 025001] to derive new reconstruction schemes for a variety of sparse signal models using only a small number of signal measurements. By introducing generalized shift operators, we study the recovery of sparse trigonometric and hyperbolic functions as well as sparse expansions into Gaussians chirps and modulated Gaussian windows. Furthermore, we show how to reconstruct sparse polynomial expansions and sparse non-stationary signals with structured phase functions.