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Blind inverse problems with isolated spikes. (English) Zbl 1508.94005

Summary: Assume that an unknown integral operator living in some known subspace is observed indirectly, by evaluating its action on a discrete measure containing a few isolated Dirac masses at an unknown location. Is this information enough to recover the impulse response location and the operator with a sub-pixel accuracy? We study this question and bring to light key geometrical quantities for exact and stable recovery. We also propose an in-depth study of the presence of additive white Gaussian noise. We illustrate the well-foundedness of this theory on the challenging optical imaging problem of blind deconvolution and blind deblurring with non-stationary operators.

MSC:

94A08 Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory
15A29 Inverse problems in linear algebra
45Q05 Inverse problems for integral equations
78A46 Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory
62M15 Inference from stochastic processes and spectral analysis
60G15 Gaussian processes
62D05 Sampling theory, sample surveys
44A12 Radon transform