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In this paper, partly based on Zachos' PhD thesis, we show that the geodesic X-ray transform is stably invertible near infinity on a class of asymptotically conic manifolds which includes perturbations of Euclidean space. In particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-02 András Vasy , Evangelie Zachos

We present a fast and simple technique to convert images into a radiance surface-based scene representation. Building on existing radiance volume reconstruction algorithms, we introduce a subtle yet impactful modification of the loss…

In this paper we study the problem of photoacoustic inversion in a weakly attenuating medium. We present explicit reconstruction formulas in such media and show that the inversion based on such formulas is moderately ill--posed. Moreover,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Otmar Scherzer , Cong Shi

Let $(M,g)$ be a simple Riemannian manifold with boundary and consider the geodesic ray transform of symmetric 2-tensor fields. Let the integral of $f$ along maximal geodesics vanish on an appropriate open subset of the space of geodesics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-21 Venky Krishnan , Plamen Stefanov

We study integral transforms mapping a function on the Euclidean space to the family of its integration on some hypersurfaces, that is, a function of hypersurfaces. The hypersurfaces are given by the graphs of functions with fixed axes of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Hiroyuki Chihara

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing the surface shape of transparent objects. The difficulty of this problem originates from the viewpoint dependent appearance of a transparent object, which quickly makes reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Miaomiao Liu

Conformal transformation optics provides a simple scheme for manipulating light rays with inhomogeneous isotropic dielectrics. However, there is usually discontinuity for refractive index profile at branch cuts of different virtual Riemann…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-08 Lin Xu , Tomáš Tyc , Huanyang Chen

We study the geodesics on an invariant surface of a three dimensional Riemannian manifold. The main results are: the characterization of geodesic orbits; a Clairaut's relation and its geometric interpretation in some remarkable three…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Stefano Montaldo , Irene I. Onnis

We show that the Radon transform related to closed geodesics is injective on a Lie group if and only if the connected components are not homeomorphic to $S^1$ nor to $S^3$. This is true for both smooth functions and distributions. The key…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Joonas Ilmavirta

We consider the inverse problem of the broken ray transform (sometimes also referred to as the V-line transform). Explicit image reconstruction formulas are derived and tested numerically. The obtained formulas are generalizations of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-07 Lucia Florescu , Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

In this paper we study the degeneration of convex real projective structures on bordered surfaces.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Inkang Kim

In two dimensions, we consider the problem of inversion of the attenuated $X$-ray transform of a compactly supported function from data restricted to lines leaning on a given arc. We provide a method to reconstruct the function on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

We study the problem of proper discretizing and sampling issues related to geodesic X-ray transforms on simple surfaces, and illustrate the theory on simple geodesic disks of constant curvature. Given a notion of band limit on a function,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 François Monard , Plamen Stefanov

We show that on a two-dimensional compact nontrapping Riemannian manifold with strictly convex boundary, a piecewise constant function can be recovered from its integrals over geodesics. We adapt the injectivity proof which uses variations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Vadim Lebovici

Surface reconstruction from point clouds is a fundamental step in many applications in computer vision. In this paper, we develop an efficient iterative method on a variational model for the surface reconstruction from point clouds. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Dong Wang

We prove for the first time a pointwise lower estimate of the normal injectivity radius of an embedded hypersurface in an arbitrary Riemannian manifold. Main applications include: (i) a pointwise lower estimate of the graphing radius of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Sebastian Boldt , Batu Güneysu , Stefano Pigola

We consider the nonlinear problem of determining a connection and a Higgs field from the corresponding parallel transport along geodesics on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, in any dimension. The problem can be reduced to an integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Hanming Zhou

The propagation of a light ray in thin layer (film) within geometrical optics is considered. It is assumed that the ray is captured inside the layer due to reflecting walls or total internal reflection (in the case of a dielectric layer).…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-12 Tomasz Radozycki

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have attracted major attention in the last few years, thanks to their useful characteristics. An RIS is a nearly passive thin surface that can dynamically change the reradiated field, and can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 V. Degli-Esposti , E. M. Vitucci , M. Di Renzo , S. Tretyakov

In this article, we study the microlocal properties of the geodesic ray transform of symmetric $m$-tensor fields on 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundary allowing the possibility of conjugate points. As is known from an earlier…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Sean Holman , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan