It is a consensus in signal processing that the Gaussian kernel and its partial derivatives enable the development of robust algorithms for feature detection. Fourier analysis and convolution theory have central role in such development. In this paper we collect theoretical elements to follow this avenue but using the q-Gaussian kernel that is a nonextensive generalization of the Gaussian one. ...

In this paper, a new class of Fourier-based matrices is studied for deterministic compressed sensing. Initially, a basic partial Fourier matrix is introduced by choosing the rows deterministically from the inverse discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix. By row/column rearrangement, the matrix is represented as a concatenation of DFT-based submatrices. Then, a full or a part of columns of the c...

Very broadly speaking, the Fourier transform is a systematic way to decompose “generic” functions into a superposition of “symmetric” functions. These symmetric functions are usually quite explicit (such as a trigonometric function sin(nx) or cos(nx)), and are often associated with physical concepts such as frequency or energy. What “symmetric” means here will be left vague, but it will usually...