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Uniqueness of STFT phase retrieval for bandlimited functions

by R. Alaifari and M. Wellershoff

(Report number 2020-42)

Abstract
We consider the problem of phase retrieval from magnitudes of short-time Fourier transform (STFT) measurements. It is well-known that signals are uniquely determined (up to global phase) by their STFT magnitude when the underlying window has an ambiguity function that is nowhere vanishing. It is less clear, however, what can be said in terms of unique phase-retrievability when the ambiguity function of the underlying window vanishes on some of the time-frequency plane. In this short note, we demonstrate that by considering signals in Paley-Wiener spaces, it is possible to prove new uniqueness results for STFT phase retrieval. Among those, we establish a first uniqueness theorem for STFT phase retrieval from magnitude-only samples in a real-valued setting.

Keywords: Phase retrieval, Short-time Fourier transform

@Techreport{AW20_915,
  author = {R. Alaifari and M. Wellershoff},
  title = {Uniqueness of STFT phase retrieval for bandlimited functions},
  institution = {Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Z{\"u}rich},
  number = {2020-42},
  address = {Switzerland},
  url = {https://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/sam_reports/reports_final/reports2020/2020-42.pdf },
  year = {2020}
}

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