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The Iterative Born Approximation (IBA) is a well-known method for describing waves scattered by semi-transparent objects. In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear inverse scattering method that combines IBA with an edge-preserving total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Li Jingzhi , Liu Hongyu , Sun Hongpeng

In many Direct and Inverse Scattering problems one has to use a parameter-fitting procedure, because analytical inversion procedures are often not available. In this paper a variety of such methods is presented with a discussion of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm , Semion Gutman

Due to manufacturing defects or wear and tear, industrial components may have uncertainties. In order to evaluate the performance of machined components, it is crucial to quantify the uncertainty of the scattering surface. This brings up an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yi Wang , Lei Lin , Junliang Lv

We present a framework to solve the open problem of formulating the inverse scattering method (ISM) for an integrable PDE on a star-graph. The idea is to map the problem on the graph to a matrix initial-boundary value (IBV) problem and then…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Vincent Caudrelier

Inverse problems, which are related to Maxwell's equations, in the presence of nonlinear materials is a quite new topic in the literature. The lack of contributions in this area can be ascribed to the significant challenges that such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Vincenzo Mottola , Antonio Corbo Esposito , Gianpaolo Piscitelli , Antonello Tamburrino

In this paper we study the linearized inverse problem associated with imaging of reflection seismic data. We introduce an inverse scattering transform derived from reverse-time migration (RTM). In the process, the explicit evaluation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-24 Tim J. P. M. Op 't Root , Christiaan C. Stolk , Maarten V. de Hoop

We present a practical $S$-matrix to potential inversion procedure for coupled-channel scattering. The inversion technique developed is applied to non-diagonal $S^J_{ll'}$ for spin one projectiles, yielding a tensor interaction $T_{\rm R}$,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. G. Cooper , V. I. Kukulin , R. S. Mackintosh , V. N. Pomerantsev

In this work, we propose an innovative iterative direct sampling method to solve nonlinear elliptic inverse problems from a limited number of pairs of Cauchy data. It extends the original direct sampling method (DSM) by incorporating an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Kazufumi Ito , Bangti Jin , Fengru Wang , Jun Zou

The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Muzafarov

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

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

This work blends the inexact Newton method with iterative combined approximations (ICA) for solving topology optimization problems under the assumption of geometric nonlinearity. The density-based problem formulation is solved using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Thadeu A. Senne , Francisco A. M. Gomes , Sandra A. Santos

Accurate determination of the complex effective permittivity is fundamental to optical material engineering, but it remains a critical metrology challenge for heterogeneous systems. In polymer blends and optical composites, scattering and…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Proity Nayeeb Akbar

We investigate the scattering of light by a nonlinear, anisotropic slab under conical incidence and arbitrary polarization, within the framework of Maxwell's equations, where the nonlinearities are described by nonlinear susceptibility…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-22 Jérémy Itier , Gilles Renversez , Frédéric Zolla

In this work, we consider the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for a magneto-dielectric cylinder covering an impedance cylinder of arbitrary shape. We solve it by introducing a divide-and-conquer framework using specially designed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Leonidas Mindrinos , Nikolaos Pallikarakis , Nikolaos L Tsitsas

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai

The interior transmission eigenvalue problem (ITP) plays a central role in inverse scattering theory and in the spectral analysis of inhomogeneous media. Despite its smooth dependence on the refractive index at the PDE level, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Davide Pradovera , Alessandro Borghi , Lukas Pieronek , Andreas Kleefeld

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

We present a solution method for the inverse scattering problem for integrable two-dimensional relativistic quantum field theories, specified in terms of a given massive single particle spectrum and a factorizing S-matrix. An arbitrary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Sabina Alazzawi , Gandalf Lechner