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A primary challenge in developing synthetic spatial hearing systems, particularly underwater, is accurately modeling sound scattering. Biological organisms achieve 3D spatial hearing by exploiting sound scattering off their bodies to…

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Coherent Diffractive Imaging is a lensless technique that allows imaging of matter at a spatial resolution not limited by lens aberrations. This technique exploits the measured diffraction pattern of a coherent beam scattered by periodic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alessandro Colombo , Davide Emilio Galli , Liberato De Caro , Francesco Scattarella , Elvio Carlino

Divergent wave imaging with coherent compounding allows obtaining broad field of view and higher frame rate with respect to line by line insonification. However, the spatial and contrast resolution crucially depends on the weights applied…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zahraa Alzein , Marco Crocco , Daniele D. Caviglia

Time-resolved scattering experiments enable imaging of materials at the molecular scale with femtosecond time resolution. However, in disordered media they provide access to just one radial dimension thus limiting the study of orientational…

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

We study a symmetric BEM-FEM coupling scheme for the scattering of transient acoustic waves by bounded inhomogeneous anisotropic obstacles in a homogeneous field. An incident wave in free space interacts with the obstacles and produces a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Matthew E. Hassell , Francisco-Javier Sayas

It is known that waves generated by ambient noise sources and recorded by passive receivers can be used to image the reflectivities of an unknown medium. However, reconstructing the reflectivity of the medium from partial boundary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Zetao Fei , Josselin Garnier

This article considers the computational (acoustic) wave propagation in strongly heterogeneous structures beyond the assumption of periodicity. A high contrast between the constituents of microstructured multiphase materials can lead to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Daniel Peterseim , Barbara Verfürth

We introduce an audio texture synthesis algorithm based on scattering moments. A scattering transform is computed by iteratively decomposing a signal with complex wavelet filter banks and computing their amplitude envelop. Scattering…

Applications · Statistics 2013-11-05 Joan Bruna , Stéphane Mallat

When light travels through scattering media, speckles (spatially random distribution of fluctuated intensities) are formed due to the interference of light travelling along different optical paths, preventing the perception of structure,…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-15 Honglin Liu , Xin Wang , Puxiang Lai , Zhentao Liu , Jianhong Shi , Shensheng Han

Ultrafast lasers have become one of the most powerful tools in coherent nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Short pulses enable direct observation of fast molecular dynamics, whereas broad spectral bandwidth offers ways of controlling nonlinear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 X. G. Xu , S. O. Konorov , J. W. Hepburn , V. Milner

Scattering of light in complex media scrambles optical wavefronts and breaks the principles of conventional imaging methods. For decades, researchers have endeavored to conquer the problem by inventing approaches such as adaptive optics,…

We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple scattering phenomenon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

We analyze the inverse scattering series for diffuse waves in random media. In previous work the inverse series was used to develop fast, direct image reconstruction algorithms in optical tomography. Here we characterize the convergence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Shari Moskow , John C. Schotland

In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-29 Jason Holloway , M. Salman Asif , Manoj Kumar Sharma , Nathan Matsuda , Roarke Horstmeyer , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Through-wall synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is of significant interest for security purposes, in particular when using multi-static SAR systems consisting of multiple distributed radar transmitters and receivers to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Francis Watson , Daniel Andre , William Robert Breckon Lionheart

It is well known that direct observation of interference and diffraction pattern in the intensity distribution requires a spatially coherent source. Optical waves emitted from portions beyond the coherence area possess statistically…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Su-Heng Zhang , Lu Gao , Jun Xiong , Li-Juan Feng , De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

We propose a methodology that exploits large and diverse data sets to accurately estimate the ambient medium's Green's functions in strongly scattering media. Given these estimates, obtained with and without the use of neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alexander Christie , Matan Leibovich , Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Rendering volumetric scattering media, including clouds, fog, smoke, and other complex materials, is crucial for realism in computer graphics. Traditional path tracing, while unbiased, requires many long path samples to converge in scenes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Becky Hu , Xi Deng , Fujun Luan , Miloš Hašan , Steve Marschner

A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…