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We study an inverse source problem for the acoustic wave equation in a random waveguide. The goal is to estimate the source of waves from measurements of the acoustic pressure at a remote array of sensors. The waveguide effect is due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Sebastian Acosta , Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

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

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

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

An inverse scattering problem for SAR data in application to through-the-wall imaging is addressed. In contrast with the conventional algorithms of SAR imaging, that work with the linearized mathematical model based on the Born…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Michael V. Klibanov , Alexey V. Smirnov , Vo Anh Khoa , Anders J. Sullivan , Lam H. Nguyen

A novel approach to full waveform inversion (FWI), based on a data driven reduced order model (ROM) of the wave equation operator is introduced. The unknown medium is probed with pulses and the time domain pressure waveform data is recorded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Alexander V. Mamonov , Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Jörn Zimmerling

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 develop a novel wave imaging scheme for reconstructing the shape of an inhomogeneous scatterer and we consider the inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem as a prototype model for our study. There exists a wealth of reconstruction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hongyu Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

State estimation is key to both analyzing physical mechanisms and enabling real-time control of fluid flows. A common estimation approach is to relate sensor measurements to a reduced state governed by a reduced-order model (ROM). (When…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-10 Nirmal J. Nair , Andres Goza

Inverse scattering aims to infer information about a hidden object by using the received scattered waves and training data collected from forward mathematical models. Recent advances in computing have led to increasing attention towards…

Applications · Statistics 2023-05-03 Chih-Li Sung , Yao Song , Ying Hung

We present an imaging technique particularly suited to the detection of a target embedded in a strongly scattering medium. Classical imaging techniques based on the Born approximation fail in this kind of configuration because of multiply…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-08-21 Alexandre Aubry , Arnaud Derode

We study an inverse acoustic scattering problem in half-space with a probabilistic impedance boundary value condition. The Robin coefficient (surface impedance) is assumed to be a Gaussian random function $\lambda = \lambda(x)$ with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-18 Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas , Lassi Päivärinta

The problem studied in this paper is ultrasound image reconstruction from frequency-domain measurements of the scattered field from an object with contrast in attenuation and sound speed. The case where the object has uniform but unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 H. Emre Guven , Eric L. Miller , Robin O. Cleveland

The linear inverse source and scattering problems are studied from the perspective of compressed sensing, in particular the idea that sufficient incoherence and sparsity guarantee uniqueness of the solution. By introducing the sensor as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-19 Albert Fannjiang , Pengchong Yan , Thomas Strohmer

We introduce a novel nonlinear seismic imaging method based on model order reduction. The reduced order model (ROM) is an orthogonal projection of the wave equation propagator operator on the subspace of the snapshots of the solutions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Alexander V. Mamonov , Vladimir Druskin , Mikhail Zaslavsky

A nonintrusive model order reduction method for bilinear stochastic differential equations with additive noise is proposed. A reduced order model (ROM) is designed in order to approximate the statistical properties of high-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-11 M. A. Freitag , J. M. Nicolaus , M. Redmann

We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Nick Polydorides , Alireza Aghasi , Eric L. Miller

Multiple model reduction techniques have been proposed to tackle linear and non linear problems. Intrusive model order reduction techniques exhibit high accuracy levels, however, they are rarely used as a standalone industrial tool, because…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Mikhael Tannous , Chady Ghnatios , Eivind Fonn , Trond Kvamsdal , Francisco Chinesta

Sound scattering by a finite width beam on a single rigid body rotation vortex flow is detected by a linear array of transducers (both smaller than a flow cell), and analyzed using a revised scattering theory. Both the phase and amplitude…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sh. Seifer , V. Steinberg

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