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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

We revisit the inverse problem of reconstructing a spatially varying diffusion coefficient in stationary elliptic equations from boundary Cauchy data. From a theoretical perspective, we introduce a gradient-weighted modification of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Sahat Pandapotan Nainggolan , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago , Hirofumi Notsu

In this work we consider numerical efficiency and convergence rates for solvers of non-convex multi-penalty formulations when reconstructing sparse signals from noisy linear measurements. We extend an existing approach, based on reduction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Zeljko Kereta , Johannes Maly , Valeriya Naumova

Variable order structures model situations in which the comparison between two points depends on a point-to-cone map. In this paper, an inexact projected gradient method for solving smooth constrained vector optimization problems on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Jose Yunier Bello Cruz , Gemayqzel Bouza Allende

Concave regularization methods provide natural procedures for sparse recovery. However, they are difficult to analyze in the high dimensional setting. Only recently a few sparse recovery results have been established for some specific local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-14 Cun-Hui Zhang , Tong Zhang

We propose a general scheme for solving convex and non-convex optimization problems on manifolds. The central idea is that, by adding a multiple of the squared retraction distance to the objective function in question, we "convexify" the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-10-20 Lizhen Lin , Bayan Saparbayeva , Michael Minyi Zhang , David B. Dunson

Several applications in medical imaging and non-destructive material testing lead to inverse elliptic coefficient problems, where an unknown coefficient function in an elliptic PDE is to be determined from partial knowledge of its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Bastian Harrach

Inverse problems arise in a multitude of applications, where the goal is to recover a clean signal from noisy and possibly (non)linear observations. The difficulty of a reconstruction problem depends on multiple factors, such as the ground…

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

We investigate the inverse scattering problem for tracking the location and orientation of a moving scatterer using a single incident field. We solve the problem by adopting the optimization approach with the objective function defined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Woojoo Lee , Mikyoung Lim , Sangwoo Kang

The reconstruction of an unknown quantity from noisy measurements is a mathematical problem relevant in most applied sciences, for example, in medical imaging, radar inverse scattering, or astronomy. This underlying mathematical problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nina M. Gottschling , David Iagaru , Jakob Gawlikowski , Ioannis Sgouralis

In tomographic reconstruction, the goal is to reconstruct an unknown object from a collection of line integrals. Given a complete sampling of such line integrals for various angles and directions, explicit inverse formulas exist to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Tristan van Leeuwen , Simon Maretzke , K. Joost Batenburg

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

This work addresses an inverse problem for a semi-discrete parabolic equation, consisting of identifying the right-hand side of the equation from solution measurements at an intermediate time and within a spatial subdomain. We apply this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rodrigo Lecaros , Juan López-Ríos , Ariel A. Pérez

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing an effective model for a prototypical diffusion process in strongly heterogeneous media based on coarse measurements. The approach is motivated by quasi-local numerical effective forward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Alfonso Caiazzo , Roland Maier , Daniel Peterseim

Constrained quasiconvex optimization problems appear in many fields, such as economics, engineering, and management science. In particular, fractional programming, which models ratio indicators such as the profit/cost ratio as fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Kazuhiro Hishinuma , Hideaki Iiduka

We consider an inverse source problem for partially coherent light propagating in the Fresnel regime. The data is the coherence of the field measured away from the source. The reconstruction is based on a minimum residue formulation, which…

In this paper we consider the computation of approximate solutions for inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. In order to capture the special feature of solutions, non-smooth convex functions are introduced as penalty terms. By exploiting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a scalar coefficient of a second-order elliptic equation in divergence form posed on a bounded domain from internal data. This theory finds applications in multi-wave imaging, greedy methods to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Faouzi Triki , Tao Yin

Convexity prior is one of the main cue for human vision and shape completion with important applications in image processing, computer vision. This paper focuses on characterization methods for convex objects and applications in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Shousheng Luo , Jinfeng Chen , Yunhai Xiao , Xue-Cheng Tai

This paper concerns the problem of recovering an unknown but structured signal $x \in R^n$ from $m$ quadratic measurements of the form $y_r=|<a_r,x>|^2$ for $r=1,2,...,m$. We focus on the under-determined setting where the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi