Dual frames compensating for erasures—a non-canonical case

In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a signal from frame coefficients with erasures. Suppose that erased coefficients are indexed by a finite set E. Starting from a frame \((x_n)_{n=1}^\infty \) and its arbitrary dual frame, we give sufficient conditions for constructing a dual frame of \((x_n)_{n\in E^c}\) so that the perfect reconstruction can be obtained from the preserved frame coefficients. The work is motivated by methods using the canonical dual frame of \((x_n)_{n=1}^\infty \), which however do not extend automatically to the case when the canonical dual is replaced with another dual frame. The differences between the cases when the starting dual frame is the canonical dual and when it is not the canonical dual are investigated. We also give several ways of computing a dual of the reduced frame, among which we are the most interested in the iterative procedure for computing this dual frame.