Thursday October 28 7:30 AM – Thursday October 28 8:00 AM in Talks II

Compressive Sensing

Iman Mossavat

Prior knowledge:
No previous knowledge expected

Summary

This talk explains the core concepts of compressive sensing, and how deep-learning methods unlocks the true potential of compressive sensing by greatly improving its calculation efficiency and gain in total number of data-points in the inference phase. Compressive sensing can be used for reducing measurement time in various types of sensors or to enhance the sensor resolution.

Description

One can regard the possibility of digital compression as a failure of sensor design. If it is possible to compress measured data, one might argue that too many measurements were taken. - David Brady Compressive sensing main idea is to measure and compress to cope with the scarcity of resources. For example the limited resource can be battery power or limited communication band-width in simple sensors or measurement time in magnetic-resonance imaging. This talk first explains what it means to measure in a compressed mode and then how we can use prior knowledge about the structure of the signals to measure them in a compressed mode. Finally it shows how the prior knowledge used in compressive sensing moved forward over the few years from simple sparsity constraints to more advanced assumptions about the manifold of measurements. Such manifolds can be constructed in a data-driven manner for example by deep-learning. The talk briefly touches upon the statistical physics of inference and uses compressive sensing as a case study where information and computational complexity meet.