# Don't take it lightly: Phasing optical random projections with unknown operators

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Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique , IRISA-D5 - SIGNAUX ET IMAGES NUMÉRIQUES, ROBOTIQUE
Abstract : In this paper we tackle the problem of recovering the phase of complex linear measurements when only magnitude information is available and we control the input. We are motivated by the recent development of dedicated optics-based hardware for rapid random projections which leverages the propagation of light in random media. A signal of interest $ξ ∈ RN$ is mixed by a random scattering medium to compute the projection $y = Aξ$, with $A ∈ C^{M×N}$ being a realization of a standard complex Gaussian iid random matrix. Such optics-based matrix multiplications can be much faster and energy-efficient than their CPU or GPU counterparts, yet two difficulties must be resolved: only the intensity |y|2 can be recorded by the camera, and the transmission matrix A is unknown. We show that even without knowing A, we can recover the unknown phase of y for some equivalent transmission matrix with the same distribution as A. Our method is based on two observations: first, conjugating or changing the phase of any row of A does not change its distribution; and second, since we control the input we can interfere ξ with arbitrary reference signals. We show how to leverage these observations to cast the measurement phase retrieval problem as a Euclidean distance geometry problem. We demonstrate appealing properties of the proposed algorithm in both numerical simulations and real hardware experiments. Not only does our algorithm accurately recover the missing phase, but it mitigates the effects of quantization and the sensitivity threshold, thus improving the measured magnitudes.
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Sidharth Gupta, Rémi Gribonval, Laurent Daudet, Ivan Dokmanić. Don't take it lightly: Phasing optical random projections with unknown operators. NeurIPS 2019 - Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec 2019, Vancouver, Canada. pp.1-13. ⟨hal-02342280v2⟩

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