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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

Diffraction-limited imaging through complex scattering media is a long sought after goal with important applications in biomedical research. In recent years, high resolution wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful approach to generate a…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

This report extends our recent progress in tackling a challenging 3D inverse scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation. Our target application is to reconstruct dielectric constants, electric conductivities and shapes of front…

We introduce a new approach for retrieving effective parameters of metamaterials based on the Bloch-mode analysis of quasi-periodic composite structures. We demonstrate that, in the case of single-mode propagation, a complex effective…

We introduce a novel algorithm for nonlinear processing of data gathered by an active array of sensors which probes a medium with pulses and measures the resulting waves. The algorithm is motivated by the application of array imaging. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

In an ultrasonic array system, increasing the aperture size to achieve a high resolution requires more transmit and receive channels, thus making it essential to have an analysis technique that can reconstruct the shape and physical…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-21 Kai Yabumoto , Takayoshi Yumii , Kenjiro Kimura

Numerous vector angular spectrum methods have been presented to model the vectorial nature of diffractive electromagnetic field, facilitating optical field engineering in polarization-related and high numerical aperture systems. However,…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-29 Chengda Song , Jing He , Guanghui Yuan

We investigate phaseless inverse scattering problem for the Schr\"odinger equation and develop reconstruction methods based on the inverse Born series (IBS). We consider three types of phaseless data: the far-field total field, the total…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 John C. Schotland , Shenwen Yu

Electron tomography is a technique used in both materials science and structural biology to image features well below optical resolution limit. In this work, we present a new algorithm for reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 David Ren , Michael Chen , Laura Waller , Colin Ophus

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) provides three-dimensional refractive index (RI) tomograms of a transparent microscopic object. However, because of the finite numerical aperture of objective lenses, ODT has the limited access to…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Moosung Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

We tackle the problem of generating highly realistic and plausible mirror reflections using diffusion-based generative models. We formulate this problem as an image inpainting task, allowing for more user control over the placement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ankit Dhiman , Manan Shah , Rishubh Parihar , Yash Bhalgat , Lokesh R Boregowda , R Venkatesh Babu

While the problem of estimating shapes and diffuse reflectances of human faces from images has been extensively studied, there is relatively less work done on recovering the specular albedo. This paper presents a lightweight solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Guoxian Song , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai , Tat-Jen Cham

Terahertz (THz) tomography is a rather novel technique for nondestructive testing that is particularly suited for the testing of plastics and ceramics. Previous publications showed a large variety of conventional algorithms adapted from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Jens Tepe , Thomas Schuster , Benjamin Littau

Inverse problems arise in a multitude of applications, where the goal is to recover a clean signal from noisy and possibly (non)linear observations. The difficulty of a reconstruction problem depends on multiple factors, such as the ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems in computed tomography (CT). In certain applications, such as neutron CT, it can be expensive to collect large amounts of measurements even for a single scan,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Timofey Efimov , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Maliha Hossain , Haley Duba-Sullivan , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging biological samples with molecular specificity. In contrast, phase microscopy provides label-free measurement of the sample's refractive index (RI), which is an intrinsic optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yi Xue , David Ren , Laura Waller

Serial crystallography experiments routinely produce thousands of diffraction patterns from crystals in random orientations. To turn this stream of images into a usable dataset, each pattern must be indexed before integration and merging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Marc M Nasser , Frédéric Poitevin , Kevin M Dalton

The detection of spatial or temporal variations in very thin samples has important applications in the biological sciences. For example, cellular membranes exhibit changes in lipid composition and order, which in turn modulate their…

Reflecting light to a pre-determined non-specular direction is an important ability of metasurfaces, which is the basis for a wide range of applications (e.g., beam steering/splitting and imaging). However, anomalous reflection with 100%…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 Tao He , Tong Liu , Shiyi Xiao , Zeyong Wei , Zhanshan Wang , Lei Zhou , Xinbin Cheng

The relative roles of multiple electron scattering and in-molecule free-space propagation in transmission electron microscopy of small molecules are discussed. It is argued that while multiple scattering tends to have only a moderate effect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 T. E. Gureyev , H. M. Quiney , A. Kozlov , L. J. Allen