Re-Weighted l_1 Dynamic Filtering for Time-Varying Sparse Signal Estimation

Abstract: Signal estimation from incomplete observations improves as more signal structure can be exploited in the inference process. Classic algorithms (e.g., Kalman filtering) have exploited strong dynamic structure for time-varying signals while modern work has often focused on exploiting low-dimensional signal structure (e.g., sparsity in a basis) for static signals. Few algorithms attempt to merge both static and dynamic structure to improve estimation for time-varying sparse signals (e.g., video). In this work we present a re-weighted l_1 dynamic filtering scheme for causal signal estimation that utilizes both sparsity assumptions and dynamic structure. Our algorithm leverages work on hierarchical Laplacian scale mixture models to create a dynamic probabilistic model. The resulting algorithm incorporates both dynamic and sparsity priors in the estimation procedure in a robust and efficient algorithm. We demonstrate the results in simulation using both synthetic and natural data.