Compressive Sensing

Compressive Sensing (CS) is a signal acquisition and reconstruction technique that exploits signal sparsity to recover high-resolution signals from far fewer samples than required by the Nyquist sampling theorem. Developed by Emmanuel Candès, Justin Romberg, and Terence Tao in 2006, compressive sensing challenges the traditional sampling paradigm by showing that signals with sparse representations can be reconstructed from sub-Nyquist random measurements using nonlinear optimization.