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Inverse problems constrained by partial differential equations are often ill-conditioned due to noisy and incomplete data or inherent non-uniqueness. A prominent example is full waveform inversion, which estimates Earth's subsurface…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ali Siahkoohi , Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami

We overview a series of recent works devoted to variance reduction techniques for numerical stochastic homogenization. Numerical homogenization requires solving a set of problems at the micro scale, the so-called corrector problems. In a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Xavier Blanc , Claude Le Bris , Frederic Legoll

The goal of this paper is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from complex-valued scattered wave field by solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation at multi-frequencies. The data are generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Hui Liu

The Bayesian methods for linear inverse problems is studied using hierarchical Gaussian models. The problems are considered with different discretizations, and we analyze the phenomena which appear when the discretization becomes finer. A…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-14 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas

Beamforming in ultrasound imaging has significant impact on the quality of the final image, controlling its resolution and contrast. Despite its low spatial resolution and contrast, delay-and-sum is still extensively used nowadays in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Teodora Szasz , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Whenever we use devices to take measurements, calibration is indispensable. While the purpose of calibration is to reduce bias and uncertainty in the measurements, it can be quite difficult, expensive, and sometimes even impossible to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

Microwave imaging is commonly based on the solution of linearized inverse scattering problems by matched filtering algorithms, i.e., by applying the adjoint of the forward scattering operator to the observation data. A more rigorous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Matthias M. Saurer , Han Na , Marius Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eibert

Inverse scattering problems have many important applications. In this paper, given limited aperture data, we propose a Bayesian method for the inverse acoustic scattering to reconstruct the shape of an obstacle. The inverse problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Zhaoxiang Li , Zhiliang Deng , Jiguang Sun

Inverse problems are ubiquitous in the sciences and engineering. Two categories of inverse problems concerning a physical system are (1) estimate parameters in a model of the system from observed input-output pairs and (2) given a model of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-05 Faaiq G. Waqar , Swati Patel , Cory M. Simon

The inverse source problem where an unknown source is to be identified from the knowledge of its radiated wave is studied. The focus is placed on the effect that multi-frequency data has on establishing uniqueness. In particular, it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Sebastian Acosta , Sum Chow , James Taylor , Vianey Villamizar

By now Bayesian methods are routinely used in practice for solving inverse problems. In inverse problems the parameter or signal of interest is observed only indirectly, as an image of a given map, and the observations are typically further…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Thibault Randrianarisoa , Botond Szabo

This paper investigates the inverse random source problem for elastic waves in three dimensions, where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. A novel computational method is proposed for reconstructing the variance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hao Gu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

Variable-exponent fractional models attract increasing attentions in various applications, while the rigorous analysis is far from well developed. This work provides general tools to address these models. Specifically, we first develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xiangcheng Zheng

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

In this article we are concerned with an inverse boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation of divergence form with space dimension $n\geq 3$. In particular the so called the interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth

We study an inverse problem for the fractional wave equation with a potential by the measurement taking on arbitrary subsets of the exterior in the space-time domain. We are interested in the issues of uniqueness and stability estimate in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Pu-Zhao Kow , Yi-Hsuan Lin , Jenn-Nan Wang

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining the location and the shape of a sound-soft obstacle from the modulus of the far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By adding a reference ball artificially to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Heping Dong , Deyue Zhang , Yukun Guo

We show how to use numerical methods within the framework of successive scaling to analyse the microstructure of turbulence, in particular to find inertial range exponents and structure functions. The methods are first calibrated on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Panagiotis Stinis , Alexandre J. Chorin

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

These lecture notes highlight the mathematical and computational structure relating to the formulation of, and development of algorithms for, the Bayesian approach to inverse problems in differential equations. This approach is fundamental…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Masoumeh Dashti , Andrew M. Stuart