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We study the problem of localizing multiple sources of forced oscillations (FOs) and estimating their characteristics, such as frequency, phase, and amplitude, using noisy PMU measurements. For each source location, we model the input…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-21 Rajasekhar Anguluri , Nima Taghipourbazargani , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

We study the inverse problem of qualitatively recovering a supported cavity in a thin elastic plate governed by the flexural (biharmonic) wave equation, using far-field pattern measurements. We derive a reciprocity principle and a…

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For three decades, carrier-phase observations have been used to obtain the most accurate location estimates using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). These estimates are computed by minimizing a nonlinear mixed-integer least-squares…

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We describe a self calibrating optical technique that allows to perform absolute measurements of scattering cross sections for the light scattered at extremely small angles. Very good performances are obtained by using a very simple optical…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doriano Brogioli , Alberto Vailati , Marzio Giglio

We present a novel numerical method to the time-harmonic inverse medium scattering problem of recovering the refractive index from near-field scattered data. The approach consists of two stages, one pruning step of detecting the scatterer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Kazufumi Ito , Bangti Jin , Jun Zou

We propose a new approach to linear ill-posed inverse problems. Our algorithm alternates between enforcing two constraints: the measurements and the statistical correlation structure in some transformed space. We use a non-linear multiscale…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ivan Dokmanić , Joan Bruna , Stéphane Mallat , Maarten de Hoop

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

This paper proposes a systematic mathematical analysis of both the direct and inverse acoustic scattering problem given the source in Radon measure space. For the direct problem, we investigate the well-posedness including the existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xueshuang Xiang , Hongpeng Sun

We study the fixed angle inverse scattering problem of determining a sound speed from scattering measurements corresponding to a single incident wave. The main result shows that a sound speed close to constant can be stably determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shiqi Ma , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Mikko Salo

In this paper, a linear model based on multiple measurement vectors model is proposed to formulate the inverse scattering problem of highly conductive objects at one single frequency. Considering the induced currents which are mostly…

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This paper is concerned with inverse crack scattering problems for time-harmonic acoustic waves. We prove that a piecewise linear crack with the sound-soft boundary condition in two dimensions can be uniquely determined by the far-field…

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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…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2009-04-23 M. Andrecut

Point source localisation is generally modelled as a Lasso-type problem on measures. However, optimisation methods in non-Hilbert spaces, such as the space of Radon measures, are much less developed than in Hilbert spaces. Most numerical…

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In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of recovering a sound soft scatterer from the measured scattered field. The scattered field is assumed to be induced by a point source on a curve/surface that is known. Here we will propose and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Isaac Harris

This investigation is concerned with the 2D acoustic scattering problem of a plane wave propagating in a non-lossy fluid host and soliciting a linear, isotropic, macroscopically-homogeneous, lossy, flat-plane layer in which the mass density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Armand Wirgin

Sparse linear regression methods such as Lasso require a tuning parameter that depends on the noise variance, which is typically unknown and difficult to estimate in practice. In the presence of heavy-tailed noise or adversarial outliers,…

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Shuffled linear regression (SLR) seeks to estimate latent features through a linear transformation, complicated by unknown permutations in the measurement dimensions. This problem extends traditional least-squares (LS) and Least Absolute…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Hang Liu , Anna Scaglione

We apply adaptive sensing techniques to the problem of locating sparse metallic scatterers using high-resolution, frequency modulated continuous wave W-band RADAR. Using a single detector, a frequency stepped source, and a lateral…