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In computed tomography (CT), the projection geometry used for data acquisition needs to be known precisely to obtain a clear reconstructed image. Rigid patient motion is a cause for misalignment between measured data and employed geometry.…

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A topology optimization approach for designing large deformation contact-aided shape morphing compliant mechanisms is presented. Such mechanisms can be used in varying operating conditions. Design domains are described by regular hexagonal…

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Topology provides an essential concept for achieving unchanged (or protected) quantum properties in the presence of perturbations. A challenge facing realistic applications is that the level of protection displayed in real systems is…

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We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

Topological correctness plays a critical role in many image segmentation tasks, yet most networks are trained using pixel-wise loss functions, such as Dice, neglecting topological accuracy. Existing topology-aware methods often lack robust…

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The reconstruction of an unknown quantity from noisy measurements is a mathematical problem relevant in most applied sciences, for example, in medical imaging, radar inverse scattering, or astronomy. This underlying mathematical problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nina M. Gottschling , David Iagaru , Jakob Gawlikowski , Ioannis Sgouralis

The inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography is severely ill-posed, meaning that, only limited information about the conductivity can in practice be recovered from boundary measurements of electric current and voltage. Recently it…

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A two-dimensional tomographic problem is studied. The target is assumed to be a homogeneous object bounded by a smooth curve. A Non Uniform Rational Basis Splines (NURBS) curve is used as computational representation of the boundary. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Heikki Haario , Aki Kallonen , Marko Laine , Esa Niemi , Zenith Purisha , Samuli Siltanen

The loss surface of deep neural networks has recently attracted interest in the optimization and machine learning communities as a prime example of high-dimensional non-convex problem. Some insights were recently gained using spin glass…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-05 C. Daniel Freeman , Joan Bruna

We present a novel data-driven approach for enhancing gradient reconstruction in unstructured finite volume methods for hyperbolic conservation laws, specifically for the 2D Euler equations. Our approach extends previous structured-grid…

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Optimal inverse design, including topology optimization and evaluation of fundamental bounds on performance, which was introduced in Part~1, is applied to various antenna design problems. A memetic scheme for topology optimization combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek , Petr Kadlec , Mats Gustafsson

This paper investigates the inverse problems of determining a space-dependent source for thermoelastic systems of type III under adequate time-averaged or final-in-time measurements and conditions on the time-dependent part of the sought…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Frederick Maes , Karel Van Bockstal

Modern deep learning reconstruction algorithms generate impressively realistic scans from sparse inputs, but can often produce significant inaccuracies. This makes it difficult to provide statistically guaranteed claims about the true state…

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Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

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The inverse conductivity problem aims at determining the unknown conductivity inside a bounded domain from boundary measurements. In practical applications, algorithms based on minimizing a regularized residual functional subject to PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Lefu Cai , Zhixin Liu , Minghui Song , Xianchao Wang

We develop a multidimensional version of Gradient-MUSIC for estimating the frequencies of a nonharmonic signal from noisy samples. The guiding principle is that frequency recovery should be based only on the signal subspace determined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Albert Fannjiang , Weilin Li

In this study, we present and analyze a framework for geometric and topological estimation for mapping of unknown environments. We consider agents mimicking motion behaviors of cyborg insects, known as biobots, and exploit coordinate-free…

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This article is concerned with the reconstruction of obstacle $\O$ immersed in a fluid flowing in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the two dimensional case. We assume that the fluid motion is governed by the Stokes-Brinkmann equations. We make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Mourad Hrizi , Rakia Malek , Maatoug Hassine

A levelset free but a hybrid image segmentation approach based on a modified version of the piece wise constant shape gradient of an Mumford Shah shape functional and a repulsive function is considered. The segmentation is performed a…

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