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The inverse diffusion curve problem focuses on automatic creation of diffusion curve images that resemble user provided color fields. This problem is challenging since the 1D curves have a nonlinear and global impact on resulting color…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Shuang Zhao , Fredo Durand , Changxi Zheng

Inverse problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Many of these are naturally formulated as a PDE-constrained optimization problem. These non-linear, large-scale, constrained optimization problems know many challenges, of which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Tristan van Leeuwen , Yunan Yang

This paper addresses the solution of inverse problems in imaging given an additional reference image. We combine a modification of the discrete geodesic path model for image metamorphosis with a variational model,actually the $L^2$-$TV$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Sebastian Neumayer , Johannes Persch , Gabriele Steidl

Photon transport through a diffusing slab can be described by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). When the slab is highly scattering and weakly absorbing, the RTE simplifies to the diffusion equation. In this paper, an inverse diffusion…

These lecture notes summarize various summer schools that I have given on the topic of solving inverse problems (state and parameter estimation) by combining optimally measurement observations and parametrized PDE models. After defining a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Olga Mula

An $\left( n+1\right) -$D coefficient inverse problem for the radiative stationary transport equation is considered for the first time. A globally convergent so-called convexification numerical \ method is developed and its convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Loc H. Nguyen , Zhipeng Yang

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…

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We consider an inverse transport problem in fluorescence ultrasound modulated optical tomography (fUMOT) with angularly averaged illuminations and measurements. We study the uniqueness and stability of the reconstruction of the absorption…

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Lossy compression algorithms aim to compactly encode images in a way which enables to restore them with minimal error. We show that a key limitation of existing algorithms is that they rely on error measures that are extremely sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Tamar Rott Shaham , Tomer Michaeli

Inverse optimization refers to the inference of unknown parameters of an optimization problem based on knowledge of its optimal solutions. This paper considers inverse optimization in the setting where measurements of the optimal solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Anil Aswani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Auyon Siddiq

Diffusion models have established new state of the art in a multitude of computer vision tasks, including image restoration. Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers generate reconstructions of exceptional visual quality from heavily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

In medical SPECT imaging, we seek to simultaneously obtain the internal radioactive sources and the attenuation map using not only ballistic measurements but also first order scattering measurements. The problem is modeled using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Matias Courdurier , Francois Monard , Axel Osses , Francisco Romero

A new numerical method for X-ray tomography for a specific case of incomplete Radon data is proposed. Potential applications are in checking out bulky luggage in airports. This method is based on the analysis of the transport PDE governing…

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We provide a new perspective on the study of parameterized optimization problems. Our approach combines methods for post-optimal sensitivity analysis and ordinary differential equations to quantify the uncertainty in the minimizer due to…

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Diffusion models have been widely studied as effective generative tools for solving inverse problems. The main ideas focus on performing the reverse sampling process conditioned on noisy measurements, using well-established numerical…

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In seismic exploration, sources and measurements of seismic waves on the surface are used to determine model parameters representing geophysical properties of the earth. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear seismic inverse technique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yunan Yang

An inverse scattering problem is formulated for reconstructing optical properties of biological tissues. A recursive linearization algorithm is used to solve the inverse scattering problem. We employed the idea of finite element boundary…

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Poisson distributed measurements in inverse problems often stem from Poisson point processes that are observed through discretized or finite-resolution detectors, one of the most prominent examples being positron emission tomography (PET).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Marco Mauritz , Benedikt Wirth

We consider an inverse problem for a radiative transport equation (RTE) in which boundary sources and measurements are restricted to a single subset $E$ of the boundary of the domain $\Omega$. We show that this problem can be solved…

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