Kronecker compressive sensing

Compressive sensing (CS) is an emerging approach for acquisition of signals having a sparse or com- pressible representation in some basis. While the CS literature has mostly focused on problems involving 1-D signals and 2-D images, many important applications involve signals that are multidimensional; in this case, CS works best with representations that encapsulate the structure of such signals in every dimension. We propose the use of Kronecker product matrices in CS for two purposes. First, we can use such matrices as sparsifying bases that jointly model the different types of structure present in the signal. Second, the measurement matrices used in distributed settings can be easily expressed as Kronecker product matrices. The Kronecker product formulation in these two settings enables the derivation of analytical bounds for sparse approximation of multidimensional signals and CS recovery performance as well as a means to evaluate novel distributed measurement schemes.