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Direct imaging methods recover the presence, position, and shape of the unknown obstacles in time-harmonic inverse scattering without a priori knowledge of either the physical properties or the number of disconnected components of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 General Ozochiawaeze

We develop two inverse scattering schemes for locating multiple electromagnetic (EM) scatterers by the electric far-field measurement corresponding to a single incident/detecting plane wave. The first scheme is for locating scatterers of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Zaijiu Shang , Hongpeng Sun

This paper addresses the electromagnetic inverse scattering problem of determining the location and shape of anisotropic objects from near-field data. We investigate both cases involving the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell's equations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Tran H. Lan , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

This paper is devoted to a novel quantitative imaging scheme of identifying impenetrable obstacles in time-harmonic acoustic scattering from the associated far-field data. The proposed method consists of two phases. In the first phase, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-05 Youzi He , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang

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

Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems (EISP) seek to reconstruct relative permittivity from scattered fields and are fundamental to applications like medical imaging. This inverse process is inherently ill-posed and highly nonlinear,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yizhe Cheng , Chunxun Tian , Haoru Wang , Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Yizhou Wang

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Li Jingzhi , Liu Hongyu , Sun Hongpeng

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

We consider the problem of determining the shape and location of an unknown penetrable object in a perfectly conducting electromagnetic waveguide. The inverse problem is posed in the frequency domain and uses multistatic data in the near…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas , Fan Yang

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem for Maxwell's equations. We first show that a bianisotropic scatterer can be uniquely determined from multi-static far-field data through the factorization analysis of the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

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

We propose a general method to arbitrarily manipulate an electromagnetic wave propagating in a two-dimensional medium, without introducing any scattering. This leads to a whole class of isotropic spatially varying permittivity and…

This paper focuses on the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering problem in a general medium which may possess a nontrivial topological structure. We model this by an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium with embedded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng , Li Wang

This work is concerned with an inverse electromagnetic scattering problem in two dimensions. We prove that in the TE polarization case, the knowledge of the electric far-field pattern incited by a single incoming wave is sufficient to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Guanghui Hu , Long Li , Jun Zou

Anisotropic thin sheets of materials possess intriguing properties because of their ability to modify the phase, amplitude and polarization of incident waves. Such sheets are usually modeled by imposing transmission conditions of resistive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Fioralba Cakoni , Peter Monk

This paper aims to solve numerically the two-dimensional inverse medium scattering problem with far-field data. This is a challenging task due to the severe ill-posedness and strong nonlinearity of the inverse problem. As already known, it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Kai Li , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Microwave imaging is commonly based on the solution of linearized inverse scattering problems by matched filtering algorithms, i.e., by applying the adjoint of the forward scattering operator to the observation data. A more rigorous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Matthias M. Saurer , Han Na , Marius Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eibert

This article is concerned with the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a generic inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that if there is a right corner on the support of the medium, then it scatters every pair of incident EM…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao