Inside Collection (Course): Compressive Sensing
We previously described Shannon's Theorem plus encoding: the Nyquist sampling rate is the minimal required sampling rate to recover the entire class of bandlimited signals. We have seen that this sampling rate may be prohibitively large for broadband signals. We see a way to improve upon this situation: we will pose a different model for the signals which is more restrictive than the assumption that the signals are bandlimited. Fortunately, there are several real world scenarios in which one knows much more information about the signals of interest. For example, they may be written in terms of very few fundamental building blocks (such as sine waves or chirps). This leads us to define new signal classes based on notions of sparsity and seek to determine if we can improve on sampling and encoding in this new setting.
Let us define the general setting for this section. Let
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