Compressive sensing and entropy in seismic signals

This work analyzes the correlation between the seismic signal entropy and the Compressive Sensing (CS) recovery index. The recovery index measures the quality of a signal reconstructed by the CS method. We analyze the performance of two CS algorithms: the ℓ1-MAGIC and the Fast Bayesian Compressive Sensing (BCS). We have observed a negative correlation between the performance of CS and seismic signal entropy. Signals with low entropy have small recovery index in their reconstruction by CS. The rationale behind our finding is: a sparse signal is easy to recover by CS and, besides, a sparse signal has low entropy. In addition, ℓ1-MAGIC shows a more significant correlation between entropy and CS performance than Fast BCS.