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This paper concerns the time-harmonic direct and inverse elastic scattering by an extended rigid elastic body surrounded by a finite number of point-like obstacles. We first justify the point-interaction model for the Lam\'{e} operator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Guanghui Hu , Andrea Mantile , Mourad Sini , Tao Yin

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently shown remarkable performance on inverse problems (IPs). Optimization-based methods can fast solve IPs using DMs as powerful regularizers, but they are susceptible to local minima and noise overfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yingzhi Xia , Setthakorn Tanomkiattikun , Liangli Zhen , Zaiwang Gu

This paper is concerned with the direct and inverse acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems by a locally perturbed, perfectly reflecting, infinite plane (which is called a locally rough surface in this paper). We propose a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-04 Haiwen Zhang , Bo Zhang

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is an imaging modality which uses near-infrared light. Although iterative numerical schemes are commonly used for its inverse problem, correct solutions are not obtained unless good initial guesses are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Yu Jiang , Manabu Machida , Norikazu Todoroki

We propose a Bayesian inference framework to estimate uncertainties in inverse scattering problems. Given the observed data, the forward model and their uncertainties, we find the posterior distribution over a finite parameter field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Ana Carpio , Sergei Iakunin , Georg Stadler

Compared to single-source imaging systems, dual-source imaging systems equipped with two cross-distributed scanning beams significantly enhance temporal resolution and capture more comprehensive object scanning information. Nevertheless,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Jianing Sun , Jigang Duan , Guangyin Li , Xu Jiang , Xing Zhao

Inverse problems, where the goal is to recover an unknown signal from noisy or incomplete measurements, are central to applications in medical imaging, remote sensing, and computational biology. Diffusion models have recently emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , En-Hui Yang , Ben Liang

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

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

Recent advancements in solving Bayesian inverse problems have spotlighted denoising diffusion models (DDMs) as effective priors. Although these have great potential, DDM priors yield complex posterior distributions that are challenging to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-14 Yazid Janati , Badr Moufad , Alain Durmus , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

Consider the two-dimensional inverse elastic wave scattering by an infinite rough surface with a Dirichlet boundary condition. A non-interative sampling technique is proposed for detecting the rough surface by taking elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Tielei Zhu , Jiaqing Yang

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing offers a promising approach to high-capacity optical communication by harnessing the orthogonality of vortex beams. However, its practical deployment is severely limited in real-world settings…

Diffraction tomography is a noninvasive technique that estimates the refractive indices of unknown objects and involves an inverse-scattering problem governed by the wave equation. Recent works have shown the benefit of nonlinear models of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Tao Hong , Thanh-an Pham , Eran Treister , Michael Unser

Accurate characterization using static light scattering (SLS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) methods mandates the measurement and analysis of singly-scattered light. In turbid samples, the suppression of multiple scattering is therefore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-18 Ian Block , Frank Scheffold

In this work, we investigate the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) as surrogates for solving the inverse acoustic scattering problem of recovering a sound-soft obstacle from phaseless far-field measurements. We approximate the forward maps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Yuxin Fan , Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

This paper is concerned with analysis of electromagnetic wave scattering by an obstacle which is embedded in a two-layered lossy medium separated by an unbounded rough surface. Given a dipole point source, the direct problem is to determine…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Peijun Li , Jue Wang , Lei Zhang

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