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This paper continues the investigation of Du and Lou (J. European Math Soc, to appear), where the long-time behavior of positive solutions to a nonlinear diffusion equation of the form $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ for $x$ over a varying interval…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Yihong Du , Bendong Lou , Maolin Zhou

We consider a singular parabolic equation of form \[ u_t = u_{xx} + \frac{\alpha}{2}(\mathrm{sgn}\,u_x)_x \] with periodic boundary conditions. Solutions to this kind of equations exhibit competition between smoothing due to one-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Michał Łasica

Ultrasound imaging, despite its widespread use in medicine, often suffers from various sources of noise and artifacts that impact the signal-to-noise ratio and overall image quality. Enhancing ultrasound images requires a delicate balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

The importance of ultrasound is well established in the imaging of human tissue. In order to enhance image quality by exploiting nonlinear effects, recently techniques such as harmonic imaging and nonlinearity parameter tomography have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Barbara Kaltenbacher

This paper investigates a class of degenerate forward-backward diffusion equations with a nonlinear source term, proposed as a model for removing multiplicative noise in images. Based on Rothe's method, the relaxation theorem, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Yihui Tong , Wenjie Liu , Zhichang Guo , Wenjuan Yao

This paper introduces two key contributions aimed at improving the speed and quality of images generated through inverse diffusion processes. The first contribution involves reparameterizing the diffusion process in terms of the angle on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenkai Zhang , Krista A. Ehinger , Tom Drummond

Surface growth, i.e., the addition or removal of mass from the boundary of a solid body, occurs in a wide range of processes, including the growth of biological tissues, solidification and melting, and additive manufacturing. To understand…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 S. Kiana Naghibzadeh , Anthony Rollett , Noel Walkington , Kaushik Dayal

This article studies a dirichlet boundary value problem for singularly perturbed time delay convection diffusion equation with degenerate coefficient. A priori explicit bounds are established on the solution and its derivatives. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Pratima Rai , Swati yadav

In this work we study the degenerate diffusion equation $\partial_{t}=x^{\alpha}a\left(x\right)\partial_{x}^{2}+b\left(x\right)\partial_{x}$ for $\left(x,t\right)\in\left(0,\infty\right)^{2}$, equipped with a Cauchy initial data and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Linan Chen , Ian Weih-Wadman

We consider degenerate diffusion equations of the form $\partial_tp_t = \Delta f(p_t)$ on a bounded domain and subject to no-flux boundary conditions, for a class of nonlinearities $f$ that includes the porous medium equation. We derive for…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Donghan Kim , Lane Chun Yeung

Image diffusion has recently shown remarkable performance in image synthesis and implicitly as an image prior. Such a prior has been used with conditioning to solve the inpainting problem, but only supporting binary user-based conditioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Majed El Helou

We present a general method for studying long time asymptotics of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. The method does not rely on a priori estimates such as the maximum principle. It applies to systems of coupled equations,…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Bricmont , A. Kupiainen , G. Lin

The recent statistical theory of neural networks focuses on nonparametric denoising problems that treat randomness as additive noise. Variability in image classification datasets does, however, not originate from additive noise but from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Juntong Chen , Sophie Langer , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We analyze nonlinear degenerate coupled PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems that arise, for example, in the modelling of biofilm growth. One of the equations, describing the evolution of a biomass density, exhibits degenerate and singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Koondanibha Mitra , Stefanie Sonner

We present an novel framework for efficiently and effectively extending the powerful continuous diffusion processes to discrete modeling. Previous approaches have suffered from the discrepancy between discrete data and continuous modeling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuxuan Gu , Xiaocheng Feng , Lei Huang , Yingsheng Wu , Zekun Zhou , Weihong Zhong , Kun Zhu , Bing Qin

In this paper we introduce and study a new feature-preserving nonlinear anisotropic diffusion for denoising signals. The proposed partial differential equation is based on a novel diffusivity coefficient that uses a nonlocal automatically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Giacomo Aletti , Monica Moroni , Giovanni Naldi

In this paper, we mainly introduce a general method to study the existence and uniqueness of solution of free boundary problems with partially degenerate diffusion.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Siyu Liu , Mingxin Wang

In this paper we are interested in a degenerate parabolic system of reaction-diffusion equations arising in biology when studying cell adhesion at the protein level. In this modeling the unknown is the couple of the distribution laws of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Philippe Grillot , Simona Mancini , Michèle Grillot

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

Image-amplifying optical cavities offer an intriguing platform for nonlinear optical processing of two-dimensional signals, with potential applications in optical information processing and optically implemented artificial neural networks.…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Albert Ryou , Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar