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Shape derivative is an important analytical tool for studying scattering problems involving perturbations in scatterers. Many applications, including inverse scattering, optimal design, and uncertainty quantification, are based on shape…

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In this paper we focus on learning optimized partial differential equation (PDE) models for image filtering. In this approach, the grey-scaled images are represented by a vector field of two real-valued functions and the image restoration…

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Recently, efforts have been made to improve ptychography phase retrieval algorithms so that they are more robust against noise. Often the algorithm is adapted by changing the cost functional that needs to be minimized. In particular, it has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-06 A. P. Konijnenberg , W. M. J. Coene , H. P. Urbach

We present a next-to-leading evaluation of the resummed coefficient function for the shape function. The results confirm our previous leading order analysis, namely that the coefficient function is short-distance-dominated, and allow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Aglietti

We consider the inverse problem of determining an elastic dislocation that models a seismic fault in the quasi-static regime of aseismic, creeping faults, from displacement measurements made at the surface of Earth. We derive both a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Andrea Aspri , Elena Beretta , Arum Lee , Anna Mazzucato

Working within the class of piecewise constant conductivities, the inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography can be recast as a shape optimization problem where the discontinuity interface is the unknown. Using Gr\"oger's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Yuri Flores Albuquerque , Antoine Laurain , Kevin Sturm

Since their introduction in the shape analysis community, functional maps have met with considerable success due to their ability to compactly represent dense correspondences between deformable shapes, with applications ranging from shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Emanuele Rodolà , Michael Moeller , Daniel Cremers

We use a path integral approach for solving the stochastic equations underlying the financial markets, and we show the equivalence between the path integral and the usual SDE and PDE methods. We analyze both the one-dimensional and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-10 Marco Rosa-Clot , Stefano Taddei

We consider the shape reconstruction of a conductivity inclusion in two dimensions. We use the concept of Faber polynomials Polarization Tensors (FPTs) introduced in \cite{choi:2018:GME} to derive an exact shape recovery formula for an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Doosung Choi , Junbeom Kim , Mikyoung Lim

This work focuses on numerically solving a shape identification problem related to advection-diffusion processes with space-dependent coefficients using shape optimization techniques. Two boundary-type cost functionals are considered, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Elmehdi Cherrat , Lekbir Afraites , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

In this thesis we develop a functional analytic framework for shape optimization with elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) constraints in classical function spaces (H\"older spaces). This approach is motivated by shape optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Laura Bittner

The objective of this study is to address the difficulty of simplifying the geometric model in which a differential problem is formulated, also called defeaturing, while simultaneously ensuring that the accuracy of the solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Jochen Hinz , Ondine Chanon , Alessandra Arrigoni , Annalisa Buffa

Recent progress in PDE constrained optimization on shape manifolds is based on the Hadamard form of shape derivatives, i.e., in the form of integrals at the boundary of the shape under investigation, as well as on intrinsic shape metrics.…

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In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for active contours with free endpoints. A scheme is presented for image segmentation and restoration based on a discrete version of the Mumford-Shah functional where the contours can be both…

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We propose to differentiate a general curvature functional with two different approaches. In the first one we compute the derivative with the tools of shape optimization and in the second one we compute the derivative of a volumic…

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Motivated by extending the functional stochastic calculus, to important functionals to which it does not apply, a notion of functional derivative along a curve is introduced. This new setting is developed by incorporating path-dependent…

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As the resolution of digital images increase significantly, the processing of images becomes more challenging in terms of accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we consider image segmentation by solving a partial differentiation equation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Karrar Abbas , Xianping Li

In many image analysis problems, the contours of objects carry important statistical information about shape. Such contours are typically affected by deformation variables including scaling, translation, rotation, and reparametrization.…

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This paper proposes a novel training model based on shape and appearance features for object segmentation in images and videos. Whereas most such models rely on two-dimensional appearance templates or a finite set of descriptors, our…

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