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Modelling the acoustic scattering response due to penetrable objects of arbitrary shapes, such as those of many marine organisms, can be computationally intensive, often requiring high-performance computing equipment when considering a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Edmundo F. Lavia , Guadalupe Cascallares , Juan D. Gonzalez

Consider the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous medium with complex refractive index. We show that an approximate factorization method can be applied to reconstruct the support of the complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Fenglong Qu , Haiwen Zhang

This article is devoted to studying the inverse scattering for the fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and in particular we solve the Born approximation problem. Based on the ($p$,$q$)-type resolvent estimate for the fractional Laplacian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Saumyajit Das , Tuhin Ghosh , Shiqi Ma

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

A deep learning-assisted inversion method is proposed to solve the inhomogeneous background imaging problem. Three non-iterative methods, namely the distorted-Born (DB) major current coefficients method, the DB modified Born approximation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Naike Du , Tiantian Yin , Jing Wang , Rencheng Song , Kuiwen Xu , Bingyuan Liang , Sheng Sun , Xiuzhu Ye

Nonlinear inverse problems have complicated landscapes. Hence the calculation with naive iterative schemes (e.g., Gauss-Newton or conjugate gradients) is trapped in local minima. The (first) Born approximation can avoid this trapping but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Akari Ishida , Manabu Machida

In this work, we develop a Bayesian framework for solving inverse problems in which the unknown parameter belongs to a space of Radon measures taking values in a separable Hilbert space. The inherent ill-posedness of such problems is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Phuoc-Truong Huynh

We investigate inverse scattering problems for Dirac equations that arise as continuum models of waveguide arrays. We first establish the well-posedness of the forward models. For the associated inverse problems, we develop the inverse Born…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 John C. Schotland , Shenwen Yu

We study the inverse problem of recovering the order and the diffusion coefficient of an elliptic fractional partial differential equation from a finite number of noisy observations of the solution. We work in a Bayesian framework and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

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

This paper is concerned with inverse acoustic scattering problem of inferring the position and shape of a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field data. We propose the Bayesian approach to recover sound-soft disks, line cracks and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Zhipeng Yang , Xinping Gui , Ju Ming , Guanghui Hu

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) utilises near-infrared light for imaging spatially distributed optical parameters, typically the absorption and scattering coefficients. The image reconstruction problem of DOT is an ill-posed inverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Meghdoot Mozumder , Andreas Hauptmann , Ilkka Nissilä , Simon R. Arridge , Tanja Tarvainen

We consider the Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of recovering the shape of an object from measurements of its scattered acoustic field. Working in the time-harmonic setting, we focus on a Helmholtz transmission problem and then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Safiere Kuijpers , Laura Scarabosio

This paper presents an efficient Bayesian framework for solving nonlinear, high-dimensional model calibration problems. It is based on a Variational Bayesian formulation that aims at approximating the exact posterior by means of solving an…

Applications · Statistics 2015-11-02 Isabell M. Franck , P. S. Koutsourelakis

The Bayesian approach to inverse problems typically relies on posterior sampling approaches, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo, for which the generation of each sample requires one or more evaluations of the parameter-to-observable map or…

Computation · Statistics 2014-12-23 Jinglai Li , Youssef M. Marzouk

Solutions in the form of series expansion, as the Born approximation, are very useful for describing time-independent scattering of quantum particles. In this work, it is mathematically demonstred that such solutions, when applied to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Sérgio L. Morelhão , Luis H. Avanci , Stefan Kycia

The present paper proposes a Bayesian framework for inverse problems that seamlessly integrates optimization and inversion to enable rapid surrogate modeling, accurate parameter inference, and rigorous uncertainty quantification. Bayesian…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Mihaela Chiappetta , Massimo Carraturo , Alexander Raßloff , Markus Kästner , Ferdinando Auricchio

In large-scale Bayesian inverse problems, it is often necessary to apply approximate forward models to reduce the cost of forward model evaluations, while controlling approximation quality. In the context of Bayesian inverse problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Josie König , Han Cheng Lie

We present Wideband Back-Projection Diffusion, an end-to-end probabilistic framework for approximating the posterior distribution induced by the inverse scattering map from wideband scattering data. This framework produces highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Borong Zhang , Martín Guerra , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

The paper discusses the applicability of WKB and Born (small perturbations) approximations in the problem of the backscattering of quantum particles and classical waves by one-dimensional smooth potentials with amplitudes small compared to…

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