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This paper aims to develop and analyze a numerical scheme for solving the backward problem of semilinear subdiffusion equations. We establish the existence, uniqueness, and conditional stability of the solution to the inverse problem by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Xu Wu , Jiang Yang , Zhi Zhou

We present the first framework to solve linear inverse problems leveraging pre-trained latent diffusion models. Previously proposed algorithms (such as DPS and DDRM) only apply to pixel-space diffusion models. We theoretically analyze our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Litu Rout , Negin Raoof , Giannis Daras , Constantine Caramanis , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sanjay Shakkottai

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

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an emerging technology in medical imaging which employs light in the NIR spectrum to estimate the distribution of optical coefficients in biological tissues for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. DOT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Alessandro Benfenati , Giuseppe Bisazza , Paola Causin

An innovative 3-D radar imaging technique is developed for fast and efficient identification and characterization of radar backscattering components of complex objects, when the collected scattered field is made of polarization-diverse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Pierre Minvielle , Pierre Massaloux , Jean-François Giovannelli

Ultrasound Tomography has seen a revival of interest in the past decade, especially for breast imaging, due to improvements in both ultrasound and computing hardware. In particular, three-dimensional ultrasound tomography, a fully…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ashkan Javaherian , Felix Lucka , Ben Cox

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

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

In this article we consider the inversion problem for polynomially computable discrete functions. These functions describe behavior of many discrete systems and are used in model checking, hardware verification, cryptanalysis, computer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Alexander Semenov , Oleg Zaikin , Dmitry Bespalov , Mikhail Posypkin

We propose a conceptually new method for solving nonlinear inverse scattering problems (ISPs) such as are commonly encountered in tomographic ultrasound imaging, seismology and other applications. The method is inspired by the theory of…

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

This paper is concerned with the inverse electromagnetic scattering problem for anisotropic media. We use the interior resonant modes to develop an inverse scattering scheme for imaging the scatterer. The whole procedure consists of three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Youzi He , Hongjie Li , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang

We study the numerical approximation of the inverse scattering problem in the two-dimensional homogeneous isotropic linear elasticity with an unknown linear load given by a square matrix. For both backscattering data and fixed-angle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-20 J. A. Barceló , C. Castro , M. C. Vilela

In this paper, we propose a novel variational active contour model based on I-divergence-TV model to segment Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with multiplicative gamma noise, which hybrides edge-based model with region-based model. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Guangming Liu

In many Direct and Inverse Scattering problems one has to use a parameter-fitting procedure, because analytical inversion procedures are often not available. In this paper a variety of such methods is presented with a discussion of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm , Semion Gutman

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

This paper presents a non-parametric method for 3-D imaging of natural volumes using Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography. This array processing-based technique aims at characterizing a spatially distributed density of incoherent sources,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Colin Cros , Laurent Ferro-Famil

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

The problem of reconstructing an object from the measurements of the light it scatters is common in numerous imaging applications. While the most popular formulations of the problem are based on linearizing the object-light relationship,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Yanting Ma , Hassan Mansour , Dehong Liu , Petros T. Boufounos , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Recently, generative diffusion priors have made huge strides as inverse problem solvers, including the ability to be adapted for inference on out-of-distribution data. Concurrently, implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Maliha Hossain , Haley Duba-Sullivan , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

This paper investigates the convergence properties of spectral algorithms -- a class of regularization methods originating from inverse problems -- under covariate shift. In this setting, the marginal distributions of inputs differ between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-08 Ren-Rui Liu , Zheng-Chu Guo