Signal Recovery and System Calibration from Multiple Compressive Poisson Measurements

The measurement matrix employed in compressive sensing typically cannot be known precisely a priori, and must be estimated via calibration. One may take multiple compressive measurements, from which the measurement matrix and underlying signals may be estimated jointly. This is of interest as well when the measurement matrix may change as a function of the details of what is measured. This problem has been considered recently for Gaussian measurement noise, and here we develop this idea with application to Poisson systems. An optimization-based algorithm is proposed, and associated theoretical performance guarantees are established based on newly derived concentration-of-measure results. A Bayesian model is then introduced, to improve exibility and generality. Connections between the optimization-based methods and the Bayesian model are developed, and example results are presented for a real compressive x-ray imaging system.