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In absence of a lens to form an image, incoherent or partially coherent light scattering off an obstructive or reflective object forms a broad intensity distribution in the far field with only feeble spatial features. We show here that…

Evaluating the Kirchhoff-Fresnel diffraction integral is essential in studying wave effects in astrophysical lensing, but is often intractable because of the highly oscillatory integrated. A recent breakthrough was made by exploiting the…

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The present study seeks to investigate mathematical structures of a multi-frequency subspace migration weighted by the natural logarithmic function for imaging of thin electromagnetic inhomogeneities from measured far-field pattern. To this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Young-Deuk Joh , Won-Kwang Park

We propose a new single frequency reverse time migration (RTM) algorithm for imaging extended targets using electromagnetic waves. The imaging functional is defined as the imaginary part of the cross-correlation of the Green function for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Junqing Chen , Zhiming Chen , Guanghui Huang

We investigate the inverse scattering problem for tracking the location and orientation of a moving scatterer using a single incident field. We solve the problem by adopting the optimization approach with the objective function defined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Woojoo Lee , Mikyoung Lim , Sangwoo Kang

We discuss image formation in gravitational lensing systems using wave optics. Applying the Fresnel-Kirchhoff diffraction formula to waves scattered by a gravitational potential of a lens object, we demonstrate how images of source objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-31 Yasusada Nambu

The increase in gravitational wave (GW) events has allowed receiving strong lensing image pairs of GWs. However, the wave effect (diffraction and interference) due to the microlens field contaminates the parameter estimation of the image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Xikai Shan , Guoliang Li , Xuechun Chen , Wenwen Zheng , Wen Zhao

Incoherently illuminated or luminescent objects give rise to a low-contrast speckle-like pattern when observed through a thin diffusive medium, as such a medium effectively convolves their shape with a speckle-like point spread function…

Diffusion models are widely used as priors in imaging inverse problems. However, their performance often degrades under distribution shifts between the training and test-time images. Existing methods for identifying and quantifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shirin Shoushtari , Edward P. Chandler , Yuanhao Wang , M. Salman Asif , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

In this contribution, we consider MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC)-type algorithm for a non-iterative microwave imaging of small and arbitrary shaped extended anomalies located in a homogeneous media from scattering matrix whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Won-Kwang Park

We consider an inverse scattering problem to identify the locations or shapes of unknown anomalies from scattering parameter data collected by a small number of dipole antennas. Most of researches does not considered the influence of dipole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Won-Kwang Park

The inverse acoustic scattering of point objects using multi-frequency sparse measurements are studied. The objects may be a sum of point sources or point like scatterers. We show that the locations and scattering strengths of the point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Xia Ji , Xiaodong Liu

Orientation estimation for 3D objects is a common problem that is usually tackled with traditional nonlinear filtering techniques such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF) or the unscented Kalman filter (UKF). Most of these techniques assume…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Igor Gilitschenski , Gerhard Kurz , Simon J. Julier , Uwe D. Hanebeck

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem of time-harmonic elastic waves by an unbounded rigid rough surface. A direct imaging method is developed to reconstruct the unbounded rough surface from the elastic scattered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

The Differential Fourier Holography (DFH) gives an exact mathematical solution of the inverse problem of diffraction in the Fraunhofer regime. After the first publication [1] the Differential Fourier Holography was successfully applied in…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Sergey G. Podorov , Eckhart Förster

We propose a new approach to constructing globally strictly convex objective functional in a 1-D inverse medium scattering problem using multi-frequency backscattering data. The global convexity of the proposed objective functional is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Thanh T. Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov

Many problems in machine learning can be formulated as optimizing a convex functional over a vector space of measures. This paper studies the convergence of the mirror descent algorithm in this infinite-dimensional setting. Defining Bregman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Anna Korba , Flavien Léger

In this paper, we consider the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm for identifying the locations of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities surrounded by random scatterers. For this purpose, we rigorously analyze the structure of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Won-Kwang Park

This work is concerned with a direct sampling method (DSM) for inverse acoustic scattering problems using far-field data. The method characterizes some unknown obstacles, inhomogeneous media or cracks, directly through an indicator function…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Jingzhi Li , Jun Zou