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Digital signal processing requires the conversion of analog signals in space and time to a discrete domain and vice versa. Conventional sampling relies on the Shannon Nyquist theorem which ensures complete reconstruction of a band limited signal by sampling at a rate twice the bandwidth. In contrast, compressed sensing follows the paradigm that a sparse signal may be sampled far below the Nyquist rate, but nevertheless may be completely recovered. Compressed sensing relies on two salient principles, sparsity and incoherence. Sparsity refers to the idea that the information rate of a signal is much smaller than expected from its bandwidth, so that the signal may be represented by a small number of elements in a proper basis or frame. Incoherence expresses the concept that signals with a sparse representation are spread out in the sampling domain.
Sparsity is encountered in signals of numerous applications like wireless information and communication technology, radar surveillance, and visual and audio signal processing, to name a few. In this Priority Programme, applications of compressed sensing in information processing will be emphasised, however, it is expected that the mathematical theory behind will receive significant impact and new directions from applied issues. Paired cooperation projects between engineers and applied mathematicians are particularly encouraged.
Investigating signals with respect to sparsity, bandwidth, dynamics, and statistical behaviour, sampling by compressed sensing methods, and reconstruction of the original signal forms the focus of the Priority Programme. We expect to cover the following areas:
o using statistical prior information for compressed sensing
o quantisation in compressed sensing
o measurement design for compressed sensing
o reconstruction algorithms for compressed sensing
o low rank matrix recovery and matrix completion in signal processing
Application fields of major interest include:
o spectrum sensing in wireless systems
o channel and network coding
o signal processing in communications
o radar and synthetic aperture radar imaging
o visual and audio signal processing

Contact:
DFG,
Ingenieurwissenschaften
Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mathar
RWTH Aachen
phone: +4924180-27700
mathar@ti.rwth-aachen.de
Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok
TU Berlin
phone: +4930314-25758
kutyniok@math.tu-berlin.de

Further Information:
http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/info_wissenschaft_14_28/index.html