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Reflection statistics have not been well studied for optical random media whose mean refractive indices do not match with the refractive indices of their surrounding media. Here, we theoretically study how this refractive index mismatch…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-29 Daniel J. Park , Prabhakar Pradhan , Vadim Backman

Ptychographic reconstructions in reflection geometries are commonly interpreted with the same two-dimensional thin-sample model used in transmission, yet the validity of this approximation has not been established. We develop a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sander Senhorst , Stefan Witte , Wim Coene

This paper addresses the inverse obstacle scattering problem of simultaneously reconstructing the obstacle geometry and boundary conditions from multi-frequency near-field backscattering data. We first establish rigorous high-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jialei Li , Xiaodong Liu

This work develops new numerical methods for the solution of the tomography problem in domains with reflecting obstacles. We compare the solution's performance for Lambertian reflection, for classical tomography with unbroken rays and for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Kamen Lozev

Strain engineering is used to obtain desirable materials properties in a range of modern technologies. Direct nanoscale measurement of the three-dimensional strain tensor field within these materials has however been limited by a lack of…

Eliminating reflections caused by incident light interacting with reflective medium remains an ill-posed problem in the image restoration area. The primary challenge arises from the overlapping of reflection and transmission components in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pengbo Guo , Chengxu Liu , Guoshuai Zhao , Xingsong Hou , Jialie Shen , Xueming Qian

This study focuses on the application of ultra sonic diffrac tion tomography to noncircular 2D-cylindri - cal ob jects im mersed in an in fi nite fluid. The dis torted Born it er a tive method used to solve the in verse scat ter ing prob…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 Philippe Lasaygues , Régine Guillermin , Jean-Pierre Lefebvre

Accurately measuring the geometry and spatially-varying reflectance of real-world objects is a complex task due to their intricate shapes formed by concave features, hollow engravings and diverse surfaces, resulting in inter-reflection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jing Yang , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Qing Zhang , Yajie Zhao

Ptychography is a lensless, computational imaging method that utilises diffraction patterns to determine the amplitude and phase of an object. In transmission ptychography, the diffraction patterns are recorded by a detector positioned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Kira A. M. Maathuis , Jacob Seifert , Allard P. Mosk

Ultrasound images formed by delay-and-sum beamforming are plagued by artifacts that only clear up after compounding many transmissions. Some prior works pose imaging as an inverse problem. This approach can yield high image quality with few…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Vincent van de Schaft , Oisín Nolan , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

We study a pattern forming instability in a laser driven optically thick cloud of cold two-level atoms with a planar feedback mirror. A theoretical model is developed, enabling a full analysis of transverse patterns in a medium with…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-08 W. J. Firth , I. Kresic , G. Labeyrie , A. Camara , T. Ackemann

X-ray ptychography is one of the versatile techniques for nanometer resolution imaging. The magnitude of the diffraction patterns is recorded on a detector and the phase of the diffraction patterns is estimated using phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Prasan Shedligeri , Florian Schiffers , Semih Barutcu , Pablo Ruiz , Aggelos K Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

To recover the three dimensional (3D) volumetric distribution of matter in an object, images of the object are captured from multiple directions and locations. Using these images tomographic computations extract the distribution. In highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Vadim Holodovsky , Yoav Y. Schechner , Anat Levin , Aviad Levis , Amit Aides

Dynamic scattering remains a significant challenge to the practical deployment of anti-scattering imaging. Existing methods, such as transmission matrix measurements, iterative wavefront shaping, and optical phase conjugation, depend on a…

We present a novel illumination control technique for optical diffraction tomography (ODT). Various spatial frequencies of beam illumination were controlled by displaying time-averaged sinusoidal patterns using a digital micromirror device…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kyeoreh Lee , Kyoohyun Kim , Geon Kim , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

We demonstrate a neutron tomography technique with sub-micrometer spatial resolution. Our method consists of measuring neutron diffraction spectra using a double crystal diffractometer as a function of sample rotation and then using a phase…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-13 B. Heacock , D. Sarenac , D. G. Cory , M. G. Huber , J. P. W. MacLean , H. Miao , H. Wen , D. A. Pushin

This work tackles the challenging task of achieving real-time novel view synthesis for reflective surfaces across various scenes. Existing real-time rendering methods, especially those based on meshes, often have subpar performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chaojie Ji , Yufeng Li , Yiyi Liao

In both light optics and electron optics, the amplitude of a wave scattered by an object is an observable that is usually recorded in the form of an intensity distribution in a real space image or a diffraction image. In contrast, retrieval…

Laser-induced electron diffraction is an evolving tabletop method, which aims to image ultrafast structural changes in gas-phase polyatomic molecules with sub-{\AA}ngstr\"om spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution. Here, we provide the…

Many biological and soft matter processes occur at high speeds in complex 3D environments, and developing imaging techniques capable of elucidating their dynamics is an outstanding experimental challenge. Here, we introduce Fourier…