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This paper aims to solve numerically the two-dimensional inverse medium scattering problem with far-field data. This is a challenging task due to the severe ill-posedness and strong nonlinearity of the inverse problem. As already known, it…

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In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem for isotropic scatterers with two conductive boundary conditions. First, we show the uniqueness for recovering the coefficients from the known far-field data at a fixed incident…

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This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

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We consider an inverse acoustic scattering problem in simultaneously recovering an embedded obstacle and its surrounding inhomogeneous medium by formally determined far-field data. It is shown that the knowledge of the scattering amplitude…

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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…

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The objective of quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is to reconstruct optical and thermodynamic properties of heterogeneous media from data of absorbed energy distribution inside the media. There have been extensive theoretical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Alexander V. Mamonov , Kui Ren

While scattered light conveys most of the information we perceive, scattering may also distort that information before it reaches our detectors. The problem is acute in many applications, such as in high-resolution microscopy of biological…

This paper is concerned with the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering problem of recovering unbounded rough surfaces in two dimensions. We assume that elastic plane waves with different directions are incident onto a rigid rough surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Guanghui Hu , Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Light passing through scattering media will be strongly scattered and diffused into complex speckle pattern, which however contains almost all the spatial information and color information of the objects. Although various technologies have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Lei Zhu , Yuxiang Wu , Jietao Liu , Tengfei Wu , Lixian Liu , Xiaopeng Shao

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of diffraction tomography (DT), which is an inverse scattering technique used to find material properties of an object by illuminating it with probing waves and recording the…

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We propose a method to reconstruct the optical absorption of a highly-scattering medium probed by diffuse light. The method consists of learning the optical detection system and then using this result to reconstruct the absorption. Our…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-08 Zijian Wang , Andreas Hauptmann , Lu Lu , John C. Schotland

In this paper, a reconstruction method for the spatially distributed dielectric constant of a medium from the back scattering wave field in the frequency domain is considered. Our approach is to propose a globally convergent algorithm,…

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This work studies the problem of content-based image retrieval, specifically, texture retrieval. It focuses on feature extraction and similarity measure for texture images. Our approach employs a recently developed method, the so-called…

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In a medium where the dielectric permittivity is perturbed in the presence of an acoustic wave, optical scattering generates frequency-shifted light. In this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering the optical properties of this…

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We present two backscattering polarimetric scanning setups based on point-illumination schemes, that are designed to probe the optical properties of subsurface media. We describe their advantages and limitations, characterize their…

At radio wavelengths, scattering in the interstellar medium distorts the appearance of astronomical sources. Averaged over a scattering ensemble, the result is a blurred image of the source. However, Narayan & Goodman (1989) and Goodman &…

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We present a novel numerical method to the time-harmonic inverse medium scattering problem of recovering the refractive index from near-field scattered data. The approach consists of two stages, one pruning step of detecting the scatterer…

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This paper presents a method for reconstructing an acoustic source located in a two-layered medium from multi-frequency phased or phaseless far-field patterns measured on the upper hemisphere. The interface between the two media is assumed…

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We give uniqueness theorem and reconstruction algorithm for the nonlinearized problem of finding the dielectric anisotropy f of the medium from non-overdetermined polarization tomography data. We assume that the medium has uniform…

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