Compressed sensing for real measurements of quaternion signals

Abstract

The article concerns compressed sensing methods in the quaternion algebra. We prove that it is possible to uniquely reconstruct - by $\ell_1$ norm minimization - a sparse quaternion signal from a limited number of its real linear measurements, provided the measurement matrix satisfies so-called restricted isometry property with a sufficiently small constant. We also provide error estimates for the reconstruction of a non-sparse quaternion signal in the noisy and noiseless cases.