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Gravitational wave astronomy is just beginning, after the recent success of the four direct detections of binary black hole (BBH) mergers, the first observation from a binary neutron star inspiral and with the expectation of many more…

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Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method that provides quantitative inference about subsurface properties with a wavelength-scale resolution. Its frequency-domain formulation is computationally efficient when processing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Mahdi Sonbolestan , Stephane Operto

This study concentrates on advancing mathematical and computational methodology for radar tomography imaging in which the unknown volumetric velocity distribution of a wave within a bounded domain is to be reconstructed. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Mika Takala , Defne Us , Sampsa Pursiainen

Full waveform inversion is an ill-posed inverse problem whose solution non-uniqueness -- i.e., arising from band-limited, finite-aperture, noisy data -- calls for uncertainty quantification to avoid overconfident geological interpretations.…

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Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

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We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) has now become a widely accepted tool to obtain high-resolution velocity models from seismic data. Typically, the velocity model in its discrete form is represented on a rectangular grid, and we solve for the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-25 Reetam Biswas , Mrinal K. Sen

Advances in the field of seismic interferometry have provided a basic theoretical interpretation to the full spectrum of the microtremor horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio [H/V(f)]. The interpretation has been applied to ambient seismic…

In this paper, a reconstruction method for the spatially distributed dielectric constant of a medium from the back scattering wave field in the frequency domain is considered. Our approach is to propose a globally convergent algorithm,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Michael V. Klibanov , Loc H. Nguyen , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

In micro-seismic event measurements, pinpointing the passive source's exact spatial and temporal location is paramount. This research advocates for the combined use of both P- and S-wave data, captured by geophone monitoring systems, to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hanchen Wang , Qiang Guo , Tariq Alkhalifah

The inverse diffusion curve problem focuses on automatic creation of diffusion curve images that resemble user provided color fields. This problem is challenging since the 1D curves have a nonlinear and global impact on resulting color…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Shuang Zhao , Fredo Durand , Changxi Zheng

We introduce a probabilistic technique for full-waveform inversion, employing variational inference and conditional normalizing flows to quantify uncertainty in migration-velocity models and its impact on imaging. Our approach integrates…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ziyi Yin , Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Diffraction tomography aims to recover an object's scattering potential from measured wave fields. In the classical setting, the object is illuminated by plane waves from many directions, and the Fourier diffraction theorem provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks

Seismic inversion is a core problem in geophysical exploration, where traditional methods suffer from high computational costs and are susceptible to initial model dependence. In recent years, deep generative model-based seismic inversion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haofei Xu , Wei Cheng , Sizhe Li , Jie Xiong

Inline holographic imaging presents an ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing objects' complex amplitude from recorded diffraction patterns. Although recent deep learning approaches have shown promise over classical phase retrieval…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-02 Chanseok Lee , Fakhriyya Mammadova , Jiseong Barg , Mooseok Jang

Marine seismic exploration is a core technology supporting marine resource exploration, seabed detection, carbon sequestration monitoring, and offshore engineering safety. The integration of full-waveform inversion (FWI), elastic inversion,…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Guoxin Chen

Tomography is the three-dimensional reconstruction of an object from images taken at different angles. The term classical tomography is used, when the imaging beam travels in straight lines through the object. This assumption is valid for…

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The tilted-wave interferometer is a promising technique for the development of a reference measurement system for the highly accurate form measurement of aspheres and freeform surfaces. The technique combines interferometric measurements,…

Inversion of gravity data is an important method for investigating subsurface density variations relevant to mineral exploration, geothermal assessment, carbon storage, natural hydrogen, groundwater resources, and tectonic evolution. Here…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Pankaj K Mishra , Sanni Laaksonen , Jochen Kamm , Anand Singh

We propose a formulation of full-wavefield inversion (FWI) as a constrained optimization problem, and describe a computationally efficient technique for solving constrained full-wavefield inversion (CFWI). The technique is based on using a…

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