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Invisibility devices exploit ambiguities in the inverse scattering problem of light in media. Scattering also serves as an important general tool to infer information about the structure of matter. We elucidate the nature of scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Awatif Hendi , Julian Henn , Ulf Leonhardt

In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

We present a practical methodology for inverse design of compact high-order/multiresonance filters in linear passive 2-port wave-scattering systems, targeting any desired transmission spectrum (such as standard pass/stop-band filters). Our…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Mo Chen , Steven G. Johnson , Aristeidis Karalis

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Alexander Sagel , Dominik Meyer , Hao Shen

Scattering often limits the controlled delivery of light in applications such as biomedical imaging, optogenetics, optical trapping, and fiber-optic communication or imaging. Such scattering can be controlled by appropriately shaping the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alex Turpin , Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

Designing invisible objects without the usage of extreme materials is a long-sought goal for photonic applications. Invisibility techniques demonstrated so far typically require high anisotropy, gain and losses, while also not being…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-18 Zeki Hayran , Ramon Herrero , Muriel Botey , Hamza Kurt , Kestutis Staliunas

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

Recently introduced speckle-correlations based techniques enable noninvasive imaging of objects hidden behind scattering layers. In these techniques the hidden object Fourier amplitude is retrieved from the scattered light autocorrelation,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Tengfei Wu , Ori Katz , Xiaopeng Shao , Sylvain Gigan

Diffraction tomography is a noninvasive technique that estimates the refractive indices of unknown objects and involves an inverse-scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Recent works have shown the benefit of nonlinear models of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Tao Hong , Thanh-an Pham , Eran Treister , Michael Unser

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem of a random potential associated with the polyharmonic wave equation in two and three dimensions. The random potential is represented as a centered complex-valued generalized microlocally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang

We study imaging with an array of sensors that probes a medium with single frequency electromagnetic waves and records the scattered electric field. The medium is known and homogenous except for some small and penetrable inclusions. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Interpreting scattered acoustic and electromagnetic wave patterns is a computational task that enables remote imaging in a number of important applications, including medical imaging, geophysical exploration, sonar and radar detection, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Owen Melia , Olivia Tsang , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Yuehaw Khoo , Jeremy Hoskins , Rebecca Willett

We propose a direct imaging method based on the reverse time migration to reconstruct extended obstacles in the half space with finite aperture elastic scattering data at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Zhiming Chen , Shiqi Zhou

The demand for inverse design is increasing as the ability to fabricate sub-10 nm features expands the design space by orders of magnitude. Efficient inverse design benefits from differentiable models of light-structure interaction. While…

In optical imaging, light propagation is affected by the inhomogeneities of the medium. Sample-induced aberrations and multiple scattering can strongly degrade the image resolution and contrast. Based on a dynamic correction of the incident…

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

The reconstruction of physical properties of a medium from boundary measurements, known as inverse scattering problems, presents significant challenges. The present study aims to validate a newly developed convexification method for a 3D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Thuy Le , Vo Anh Khoa , Michael Victor Klibanov , Loc Hoang Nguyen , Grant Bidney , Vasily Astratov

As light travels through a disordered medium such as biological tissues, it undergoes multiple scattering events. This phenomenon is detrimental to in-depth optical microscopy, as it causes a drastic degradation of contrast, resolution and…