Abstract
The balanced weighted orthogonal matching pursuit (bWOMP) algorithm for recovering signals in compressed sensing (CS) based system is presented as a specialized recovering tool for Electrocardiograph (ECG) signals. Being based on the standard OMP approach, bWOMP is a lightweight reconstruction algorithm both in terms of complexity and memory footprint. Furthermore, the concept of weighting is introduced in the algorithm by exploring a prior knowledge on ECG signals. Experimental results show a performance increase of about 10 dB with respect to the standard OMP approach, and also an increase with respect to the decoding approaches considered as the state-of-the-art. In this case the gain could be as high as 4 dB with respect to the best of currently known decoding approaches.