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The aim of this work is to prove that it is possible to realise an optical system which produces as output a light intensity that can be expressed in the same mathematical form of the spin glass Hamiltonian. The optical system under study…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-10-27 Erik Hörmann

We present explicit methods for simulating diffusions whose generator is self-adjoint with respect to a known (but possibly not normalizable) density. These methods exploit this property and combine an optimized Runge-Kutta algorithm with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-27 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Aleksandar Donev , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

In order to solve tasks like uncertainty quantification or hypothesis tests in Bayesian imaging inverse problems, we often have to draw samples from the arising posterior distribution. For the usually log-concave but high-dimensional…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-23 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Lorenz Kuger , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Non-invasive and single-shot holographic imaging through complex media is technically challenging due to random light scattering which significantly scrambles optical information. Recently, several methods have been presented to address…

Many naturally-occuring models in the sciences are well-approximated by simplified models, using multiscale techniques. In such settings it is natural to ask about the relationship between inverse problems defined by the original problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kit Newton , Qin Li , Andrew Stuart

Recently a new algorithm for sampling posteriors of unnormalised probability densities, called ABC Shadow, was proposed in [8]. This talk introduces a global optimisation procedure based on the ABC Shadow simulation dynamics. First the…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-20 R. S. Stoica , M. Deaconu , L. Hurtado

Dynamic optical coherence tomography (DOCT) statistically analyzes fluctuations in time-sequential OCT signals, enabling label-free and three-dimensional visualization of intratissue and intracellular activities. Current DOCT methods, such…

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently shown remarkable performance on inverse problems (IPs). Optimization-based methods can fast solve IPs using DMs as powerful regularizers, but they are susceptible to local minima and noise overfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yingzhi Xia , Setthakorn Tanomkiattikun , Liangli Zhen , Zaiwang Gu

This paper proposes a direct sampling method for the inverse problem of magnetic induction tomography (MIT). Our approach defines a class of point spread functions with explicit expressions, which are computed via inner products, leading to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Junqing Chen , Chengzhe Jiang

We introduce a Monte Carlo algorithm to efficiently compute transport properties of chaotic dynamical systems. Our method exploits the importance sampling technique that favors trajectories in the tail of the distribution of displacements,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-25 Diego Tapias , David P. Sanders , Eduardo G. Altmann

Cone Beam Computed Tomography(CBCT) is a now known method to conduct CT imaging. Especially, The Low Dose CT imaging is one of possible options to protect organs of patients when conducting CT imaging. Therefore Low Dose CT imaging can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Wooram Kang , Mayank Patwari

Diffusion models have recently achieved success in solving Bayesian inverse problems with learned data priors. Current methods build on top of the diffusion sampling process, where each denoising step makes small modifications to samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bingliang Zhang , Wenda Chu , Julius Berner , Chenlin Meng , Anima Anandkumar , Yang Song

Inverse boundary value problems for the radiative transport equation play important roles in optics-based medical imaging techniques such as diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and fluorescence optical tomography (FOT). Despite the rapid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Tian Ding , Kui Ren

This paper presents a novel Direct Integration Theorem (DIT), derived as a non-trivial corollary of the classical Central Slice Theorem (CST). The DIT provides a mathematically consistent transition from the continuous to the discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mikhail G. Mozerov

Inverse problems generally require a regularizer or prior for a good solution. A recent trend is to train a convolutional net to denoise images, and use this net as a prior when solving the inverse problem. Several proposals depend on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Kyle Luther , H. Sebastian Seung

Various Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are studied to improve upon random walk Metropolis sampling, for simulation from complex distributions. Examples include Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithms, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, and…

Computation · Statistics 2020-05-19 Zexi Song , Zhiqiang Tan

One native source of quality deterioration in medical imaging, and especially in our case optical coherence tomography (OCT), is the turbid biological media in which photon does not take a predictable path and many scattering events would…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Ali Alavi

Limited-Angle Computed Tomography (LACT) is a non-destructive evaluation technique used in a variety of applications ranging from security to medicine. The limited angle coverage in LACT is often a dominant source of severe artifacts in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Jiaming Liu , Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Stewart He , K. Aditya Mohan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Hyojin Kim

An inverse scattering problem is formulated for reconstructing optical properties of biological tissues. A recursive linearization algorithm is used to solve the inverse scattering problem. We employed the idea of finite element boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ying Li

This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Anand Dabak , Rajan Narasimha , Anil Mani , Piya Pal