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We study an inverse random obstacle scattering problems in $\mathbb{R}^2$ where the scatterer is formulated by a Gaussian process defined on the angular parameter domain. Equipped with a modified covariance function which is mathematically…

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This paper is dedicated to design a direct sampling method of inverse electromagnetic scattering problems, which uses multi-frequency sparse backscattering far field data for reconstructing the boundary of perfectly conducting obstacles. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Tilo Arens , Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

Line spectral estimation is the problem of recovering the frequencies and amplitudes of a mixture of a few sinusoids from equispaced samples. However, in a variety of signal processing problems arising in imaging, radar, and localization we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Reinhard Heckel , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Inverse scattering focuses on recovering unknown scatterers from wave measurements. A fundamental challenge is determining whether an inverse obstacle problem can be resolved from a single far-field measurement, a task particularly…

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In this paper we study the linearized inverse problem associated with imaging of reflection seismic data. We introduce an inverse scattering transform derived from reverse-time migration (RTM). In the process, the explicit evaluation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-24 Tim J. P. M. Op 't Root , Christiaan C. Stolk , Maarten V. de Hoop

A new algorithm is proposed for solving the three-dimensional scalar inverse problem of acoustic sounding in an inhomogeneous medium. The data for the algorithm are the complex amplitudes of the wave field measured outside the inhomogeneity…

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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…

We discuss here the direct and inverse problems for wave propagation in a waveguide with rough internal surface and arbitrary mean shape. The high degree of multiple scattering inside the waveguide poses significant challenges both for the…

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Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

Consider the inverse random source scattering problem for the two-dimensional time-harmonic elastic wave equation with an inhomogeneous, anisotropic mass density. The source is modeled as a microlocally isotropic generalized Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li

We consider the inverse problem of fitting atmospheric dispersion parameters based on time-resolved back-scattered differential absorption Lidar (DIAL) measurements. The obvious advantage of light-based remote sensing modalities is their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Robert Lung , Nick Polydorides

Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. Here, we discuss a sparse approximation method for computational time-reversal imaging. The method is formulated…

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In this article, we consider the numerical approximation of far-field statistics for acoustic scattering problems in the case of random obstacles. In particular, we consider the computation of the expected far-field pattern and the expected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Helmut Harbrecht , Nikola Ilić , Michael D. Multerer

In this paper, we consider inverse shape problems coming from diffuse optical tomography and inverse scattering. In both problems, our goal is to reconstruct small volume interior regions from measured data on the exterior surface of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Govanni Granados , Isaac Harris

This paper is concerned with time domain forward scattering and inverse scattering problems with a single moving point source as the emitter. Approximate solutions are provided for the forward scattering problem with a moving emitter.…

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We present a computational framework for efficient optimization-based "inverse design" of large-area "metasurfaces" (subwavelength-patterned surfaces) for applications such as multi-wavelength and multi-angle optimizations, and…

We aim to analyze and calculate time-dependent acoustic wave scattering by a bounded obstacle and a locally perturbed non-selfintersecting curve. The scattering problem is equivalently reformulated as an initial-boundary value problem of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu

This work describes and analyzes the domain derivative for a time-dependent acoustic scattering problem. We study the nonlinear operator that maps a sound-soft scattering object to the solution of the time-dependent wave equation evaluated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Marvin Knöller , Jörg Nick

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing small and local perturbations of a planar surface using the field interaction between a known plasmonic particle and the planar surface. The aim is to perform a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Habib Ammari , Doo Sung Choi , Sanghyeon Yu