Concentration uncertainty principles for signals on the unit sphere

Zubair Khalid*, Salman Durrani, Parastoo Sadeghi, Rodney A. Kennedy

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    Abstract

    The uncertainty principle is an important and powerful tool, with many applications in signal processing. This paper presents two concentration uncertainty principles for signals on the sphere which relate the localization of the concentration of a signal in spatial and spectral domains, as an analogue of the general Donoho and Stark uncertainty principles in time-frequency analysis. Using the spherical and spectral truncation operators, we derive the L 1-norm and L 2-norm uncertainty principles which respectively relate the signal concentration in spatial and spectral domains as absolute value and the energy of a signal. We also analyze the sharpness of the bound imposed by the derived L 2-norm uncertainty principle. The proposed uncertainty measures can be applied to signal processing problems on the sphere.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Proceedings
    Pages3717-3720
    Number of pages4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012 - Kyoto, Japan
    Duration: 25 Mar 201230 Mar 2012

    Publication series

    NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
    ISSN (Print)1520-6149

    Conference

    Conference2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2012
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityKyoto
    Period25/03/1230/03/12

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