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Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Caroline Jane Spindel , Edward Knightly

By suitably generalizing the Fourier constraint projection in the difference map phasing algorithm, an object can be reconstructed from its diffraction pattern even when the latter has been incoherently averaged over a discrete group of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Veit Elser

The cyclic block coordinate descent-type (CBCD-type) methods, which performs iterative updates for a few coordinates (a block) simultaneously throughout the procedure, have shown remarkable computational performance for solving strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Xingguo Li , Tuo Zhao , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Mingyi Hong

In the literature, there exist several studies on symbol-based multigrid methods for the solution of linear systems having structured coefficient matrices. In particular, the convergence analysis for such methods has been obtained in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Matthias Bolten , Marco Donatelli , Paola Ferrari , Isabella Furci

We present a technique to optimize the reflectivity of a surface while preserving its overall shape. The naive optimization of the mesh vertices using the gradients of reflectivity simulations results in undesirable distortion. In contrast,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kenji Tojo , Ariel Shamir , Bernd Bickel , Nobuyuki Umetani

Super-resolution techniques overcome the diffraction-limit and get very high resolutions. A category of these techniques, e.g., STED achieves this by creating an illumination spot smaller than the Airy Disk. As a result, points are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

Constrained quadratic programs and Euclidean projections are ubiquitous in engineering, arising in machine learning, estimation, control, and signal processing. Dykstra's algorithm is an iterative scheme for computing the Euclidean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Claudio Vestini , Idris Kempf

We present a novel artificial diffusion method to circumvent the instabilities associated with the standard finite element approximation of convection-diffusion equations. Motivated by the micromorphic approach, we introduce an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

Uniformly distributed point sets on the unit sphere with and without symmetry constraints have been found useful in many scientific and engineering applications. Here, a novel variant of the Thomson problem is proposed and formulated as an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Cheng Guan Koay

This paper presents a scalable physics-based block preconditioner for mixed-dimensional models in beam-solid interaction and their application in engineering. In particular, it studies the linear systems arising from a regularized…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Max Firmbach , Ivo Steinbrecher , Alexander Popp , Matthias Mayr

We propose a subgradient-based method for finding the maximum feasible subsystem in a collection of closed sets with respect to a given closed set $C$ (MFS$_C$). In this method, we reformulate the MFS$_C$ problem as an $\ell_0$ optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Minglu Ye , Ting Kei Pong

In spectral clustering, one defines a similarity matrix for a collection of data points, transforms the matrix to get the Laplacian matrix, finds the eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix, and obtains a partition of the data using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Leonard K. M. Poon , April H. Liu , Tengfei Liu , Nevin Lianwen Zhang

Tomography is the three-dimensional reconstruction of an object from images taken at different angles. The term classical tomography is used, when the imaging beam travels in straight lines through the object. This assumption is valid for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-10 Paul Müller , Mirjam Schürmann , Jochen Guck

We present an inverse method for transforming a given parallel light emittance to two light distributions at different parallel target planes using two freeform reflectors. The reflectors control both the spatial and directional target…

We present a novel randomized block coordinate descent method for the minimization of a convex composite objective function. The method uses (approximate) partial second-order (curvature) information, so that the algorithm performance is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Kimon Fountoulakis , Rachael Tappenden

We investigate interferometric techniques to estimate the deflection angle of an optical beam and compare them to the direct detection of the beam deflection. We show that quantum metrology methods lead to a unifying treatment for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 S. P. Walborn , G. H. Aguilar , P. L. Saldanha , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

In this paper a novel contour integral method is proposed for linear convection-diffusion equations. The method is based on the inversion of the Laplace transform and makes use of a contour given by an elliptic arc joined symmetrically to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Nicola Guglielmi , Maria López-Fernández , Giancarlo Nino

Deepfake detection methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated high accuracy. \textcolor{black}{However, these methods often suffer from decreased performance when faced with unknown forgery methods and common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Sitong Liu , Zhichao Lian , Siqi Gu , Liang Xiao

We propose an algorithm to detect approximate reflection symmetry present in a set of volumetrically distributed points belonging to $\mathbb{R}^d$ containing a distorted reflection symmetry pattern. We pose the problem of detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Rajendra Nagar , Shanmuganathan Raman

We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of a convex function and a convex function composed with an injective linear mapping. For such problems, subject to a coercivity condition at fixed points of the corresponding Picard iteration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Timo Aspelmeier , C. Charitha , D. Russell Luke