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We consider the inverse acoustic obstacle problem for sound-soft star-shaped obstacles in two dimensions wherein the boundary of the obstacle is determined from measurements of the scattered field at a collection of receivers outside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Mo Zhou , Jiequn Han , Manas Rachh , Carlos Borges

Deep neural networks have been applied successfully to a wide variety of inverse problems arising in computational imaging. These networks are typically trained using a forward model that describes the measurement process to be inverted,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have become powerful tools for solving inverse scattering problems. However, the approximation and generalization rates of DNNs for solving these problems remain largely under-explored. In this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Zehui Zhou

Neural-networks have seen a surge of interest for the interpretation of seismic images during the last few years. Network-based learning methods can provide fast and accurate automatic interpretation, provided there are sufficiently many…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Bas Peters , Eldad Haber , Justin Granek

Full-waveform inversion problems are usually formulated as optimization problems, where the forward-wave propagation operator $f$ maps the subsurface velocity structures to seismic signals. The existing computational methods for solving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Yue Wu , Youzuo Lin

Inverse scattering problems are critical in electromagnetic imaging and medical diagnostics but are challenged by their nonlinearity and diverse measurement scenarios. This paper proposes a physics-informed deep contrast source inversion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Haoran Sun , Daoqi Liu , Hongyu Zhou , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu , Fan Yang

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

Inverse scattering is a fundamental challenge in many imaging applications, ranging from microscopy to remote sensing. Solving this problem often requires jointly estimating two unknowns -- the image and the scattering field inside the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yuan Gao , Wenhan Guo , Yu Sun

Seismic data are commonly modeled by a high-frequency single scattering approximation. This amounts to a linearization in the medium coefficient about a smooth background. The discontinuities are contained in the medium perturbation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Christiaan C. Stolk , Maarten V. de Hoop

Time-harmonic acoustic inverse scattering concerns the ill-posed and nonlinear problem of determining the refractive index of an inaccessible, penetrable scatterer based on far field wave scattering data. When the scattering is weak, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Ansh Desai , Jonathan Ma , Timo Lahivaara , Peter Monk

In this work we consider the method of non-linear boundary integral equation for solving numerically the inverse scattering problem of obliquely incident electromagnetic waves by a penetrable homogeneous cylinder in three dimensions. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Drossos Gintides , Leonidas Mindrinos

While deep learning methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many challenging inverse problems like image inpainting and super-resolution, they invariably involve problem-specific training of the networks. Under this approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 J. H. Rick Chang , Chun-Liang Li , Barnabas Poczos , B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

In this work, we investigate the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) as surrogates for solving the inverse acoustic scattering problem of recovering a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field measurements. We approximate the forward maps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Yuxin Fan , Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin

Electromagnetic inverse scattering problems (ISPs) aim to retrieve permittivities of dielectric scatterers from the scattering measurement. It is often highly nonlinear, caus-ing the problem to be very difficult to solve. To alleviate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Huilin Zhou , Tao Ouyang , Yadan Li , Jian Liu , Qiegen Liu

Traditional physics-based approaches to infer sub-surface properties such as full-waveform inversion or reflectivity inversion are time-consuming and computationally expensive. We present a deep-learning technique that eliminates the need…

We study inverse problems consisting on determining medium properties using the responses to probing waves from the machine learning point of view. Based on the understanding of propagation of waves and their nonlinear interactions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

In this work, we propose a deep learning-based imaging method for addressing the multi-frequency electromagnetic (EM) inverse scattering problem (ISP). By combining deep learning technology with EM physical laws, we have successfully…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Daoqi Liu , Tao Shan , Maokun Li , Fan Yang , Shenheng Xu

This is Part II of the paper series on data-compatible T-matrix completion (DCTMC), which is a method for solving nonlinear inverse problems. Part I of the series contains theory and here we present simulations for inverse scattering of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Howard W. Levinson , Vadim A. Markel

In this paper, we introduce deep learning technology to tackle two traditional low-level image processing problems, companding and inverse halftoning. We make two main contributions. First, to the best knowledge of the authors, this is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Xianxu Hou , Guoping Qiu