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The inverse scattering problem from the multi-frequency backscattering data is a long-standing open problem. We advance the theory by proving a local uniqueness result. Moreover, we introduce a direct sampling method for quantitatively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Yukun Guo , Xiaodong Liu

We consider the inverse problem of determining the geometry of penetrable objects from scattering data generated by one incident wave at a fixed frequency. We first study an orthogonality sampling type method which is fast, simple to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Vu Nguyen , Trung Truong

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Carlos Borges , Rafael Ceja Ayala , Peter Nekrasov

In this paper, we consider an inverse electromagnetic medium scattering problem of reconstructing unknown objects from time-dependent boundary measurements. A novel time-domain direct sampling method is developed for determining the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Chen Geng , Minghui Song , Xianchao Wang , Yuliang Wang

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 source localization from Helmholtz boundary data collected over a narrow aperture is highly ill-posed and severely undersampled, undermining classical solvers (e.g., the Direct Sampling Method). We present a modular framework that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Guanyu Pan , Jianing Zhou , Xiaotong Liu , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi

A direct sampling method (DSM) is designed herein for a real-time detection of small anomalies from scattering parameters measured by a small number of dipole antennas. Applicability of the DSM is theoretically demonstrated by proving that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Won-Kwang Park , Kwang-Jae Lee , Seong-Ho Son

This paper investigates the inverse scattering problems using sampling methods with near field measurements. The near field measurements appear in two classical inverse scattering problems: the inverse scattering for obstacles and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Xiaodong Liu , Shixu Meng , Bo Zhang

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem associated with an anisotropic medium with a conductive boundary condition. We will assume that the corresponding far--field pattern or Cauchy data is either known or measured. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Isaac Harris , Victor Hughes , Andreas Kleefeld

In this paper, we investigate on the direct and inverse scattering problem by an unbounded penetrable rough surface in a lossless medium. The cases that the transmission coefficient $\mu\neq1$ and $\mu=1$, which creates certain difficulties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqinq Yang

The recently introduced non-iterative imaging method entitled \enquote{direct sampling method} (DSM) is known to be fast, robust, and effective for inverse scattering problems in the multi-static configuration but fails when applied to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Sangwoo Kang , Marc Lambert , Won-Kwang Park

Inverse scattering problems are critical in electromagnetic imaging and medical diagnostics but are challenged by their nonlinearity and diverse measurement scenarios. This paper proposes a physics-informed deep contrast source inversion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Haoran Sun , Daoqi Liu , Hongyu Zhou , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu , Fan Yang

We consider the direct and inverse scattering problem for a penetrable, isotropic obstacle with a second-order Robin boundary condition, which asymptotically models the delamination of the boundary of the scatterer. We develop a direct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Govanni Granados , Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

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

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

The direct sampling method (DSM) has been introduced for non-iterative imaging of small inhomogeneities and is known to be fast, robust, and effective for inverse scattering problems. However, to the best of our knowledge, a full analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Sangwoo Kang , Marc Lambert , Won-Kwang Park

We present Wideband Back-Projection Diffusion, an end-to-end probabilistic framework for approximating the posterior distribution induced by the inverse scattering map from wideband scattering data. This framework produces highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Borong Zhang , Martín Guerra , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

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

We consider the inverse elastic scattering problems using the far field data due to one incident plane wave. A simple method is proposed to reconstruct the location and size of the obstacle using different components of the far field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 J Liu , X. Liu , J. Sun

This paper investigates the inverse biharmonic scattering problems of identifying the shape and location of the obstacle with phased and phaseless measurement data. A direct imaging method based on reverse time migration is proposed for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Tielei Zhu , Zhihao Ge