This paper considers the problem of optimum reconstruction in generalized sampling-reconstruction processes (GSRPs). We propose constrained GSRP, a novel framework that minimizes the reconstruction error for inputs in a subspace, subject to a constraint on the maximum regret-error for any other signal in the entire signal space. This framework addresses the primary limitation of existing GSRPs (consistent, subspace and minimax regret), namely, the assumption that the a priori subspace is either fully known or fully ignored. We formulate constrained GSRP as a constrained optimization problem, the solution to which turns out to be a convex combination of the subspace and the minimax regret samplings. Detailed theoretical analysis on the reconstruction error shows that constrained sampling achieves a reconstruction that is 1) (sub)optimal for signals in the input subspace, 2) robust for signals around the input subspace, and 3) reasonably bounded for any other signals with a simple choice of the constraint parameter. Experimental results on sampling-reconstruction of a Gaussian input and a speech signal demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
According to @cite_17 , the orthogonal projection @math is subject to a fundamental limitation on the GSRP: Unless the reconstruction subspace is a subset of the sampling subspace, i.e., there exists no correction filter @math that renders the GSRP @math to be the orthogonal projection @math .
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We treat the problem of reconstructing a signal from its nonideal samples where the sampling and reconstruction spaces as well as the class of input signals can be arbitrary subspaces of a Hilbert space. Our formulation is general, and includes as special cases reconstruction from finitely many samples as well as uniform-sampling of continuous-time signals, which are not necessarily bandlimited. To obtain a good approximation of the signal in the reconstruction space from its samples, we suggest two design strategies that attempt to minimize the squared-norm error between the signal and its reconstruction. The approaches we propose differ in their assumptions on the input signal: If the signal is known to lie in an appropriately chosen subspace, then we propose a method that achieves the minimal squared error. On the other hand, when the signal is not restricted, we show that the minimal-norm reconstruction cannot generally be obtained. Instead, we suggest minimizing the worst-case squared error between the reconstructed signal, and the best possible (but usually unattainable) approximation of the signal within the reconstruction space. We demonstrate both theoretically and through simulations that the suggested methods can outperform the consistent reconstruction approach previously proposed for this problem.