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This paper develops an efficient numerical method for the inverse scattering problem of a time-harmonic plane wave incident on a perfectly reflecting random periodic structure. The method is based on a novel combination of the Monte Carlo…

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We consider the inverse problem of determining the geometry of penetrable objects from scattering data generated by one incident wave at a fixed frequency. We first study an orthogonality sampling type method which is fast, simple to…

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In the reconstruction process of unknown multiple scattering objects in inverse medium scattering problems, the first important step is to effectively locate some approximate domains that contain all inhomogeneous media. Without such an…

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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…

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We consider the inverse scattering problem for sparse scatterers. An image reconstruction algorithm is proposed that is based on a nonlinear generalization of iterative hard thresholding. The convergence and error of the method was analyzed…

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We study the inverse boundary value problem for the wave equation using the single-layer potential operator as the data. We assume that the data have frequency content in a bounded interval. We prove how to choose classes of nonsmooth…

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