Relevance vector machine technique for the inverse scattering problem

A novel method based on the relevance vector machine（RVM） for the inverse scattering problem is presented in this paper.The nonlinearity and the ill-posedness inherent in this problem are simultaneously considered.The nonlinearity is embodied in the relation between the scattered field and the target property,which can be obtained through the RVM training process.Besides,rather than utilizing regularization,the ill-posed nature of the inversion is naturally accounted for because the RVM can produce a probabilistic output.Simulation results reveal that the proposed RVM-based approach can provide comparative performances in terms of accuracy,convergence,robustness,generalization,and improved performance in terms of sparse property in comparison with the support vector machine（SVM） based approach.

Efficient Solution to Electromagnetic Scattering Problems of Bodies of Revolution by Compressive Sensing

Under the theory structure of compressive sensing （CS）, an underdetermined equation is deduced for describing the discrete solution of the electromagnetic integral equation of body of revolution （BOR）, which will result in a small-scale impedance matrix. In the new linear equation system, the small-scale impedance matrix can be regarded as the measurement matrix in CS, while the excited vector is the measurement of unknown currents. Instead of solving dense full rank matrix equations by the iterative method, with suitable sparse representation, for unknown currents on the surface of BOR, the entire current can be accurately obtained by reconstructed algorithms in CS for small-scale undetermined equations. Numerical results show that the proposed method can greatly improve the computgtional efficiency and can decrease memory consumed.

Factorization method for inverse obstacle scattering problem in three-dimensional planar acoustic waveguides

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem of reconstructing a bounded obstacle in a three-dimensional planar waveguide from the scattered near-field data measured on a finite cylindrical surface containing the obstacle and corresponding to infinitely many incident point sources also placed on the measurement surface. The obstacle is allowed to be an impenetrable scatterer or a penetrable scatterer. We establish the validity of the factorization method with the nearfield data to characterize the obstacle in the planar waveguide by constructing an outgoing-to-incoming operator which is an integral operator defined on the measurement surface with the kernel given in terms of an infinite series.

A SURVEY OF OPEN CAVITY SCATTERING PROBLEMS

This paper gives a brief survey of recent developments on mathematical modeling and analysis of the open cavity scattering problems, which arise in diverse scientific areas and have significant industrial and military applications. The scattering problems are studied for the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation corresponding to the transverse magnetic or electric polarization, and the three-dimensional time-harmonic and time-domain Maxwell equations. Since these problems are imposed in open domains, a key step of the analysis is to develop transparent boundary conditions and reformulate them equivalently into boundary value problems in bounded domains. The well-posedness of weak solutions are shown for the associated variational problems by using either the Lax-Milgram theorem or the Fredholm alternative.

A Method for Solving the Inverse Scattering Problem for Shape and Impedance of Crack

The inverse problem considered in this paper is to determine the shape and the impedance of crack from a knowledge of the time-harmonic incident field and the corresponding far field pattern of the scattered waves in two-dimension.The combined single-and double-layer potential is used to approach the scattered waves.As an important feature,this method does not require the solution of u and δu/δv at each iteration.An approximate method is presented and the convergence of this method is proven.Numerical examples are given to show that this method is both accurate and simple to use.

An Adaptive Finite Element PML Method for the Acoustic Scattering Problems in Layered Media

The paper concerns the numerical solution for the acoustic scattering problems in a two-layer medium.The perfectly matched layer(PML)technique is adopted to truncate the unbounded physical domain into a bounded computational domain.An a posteriori error estimate based adaptive finite element method is developed to solve the scattering problem.Numerical experiments are included to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL SCHRDINGER OPERATORS RELATED TO THE GENERAL STARK EFFECT

This paper disccusses the inverse scattering problem for one-dimensional Schrodinger operatorsrelated to the general Stark effect. We provide a ganeral framework which can be applied both to theStark-effect operator and the ordinary Schrodinger operator.

An application of radiation boundary condition to scattering problem of acoustic waves in fluids

A numerical method of solving acoustic wave scattering pnblem in fluids is described. Radiation boundary condition (RBC) obtained by factorization method of Helmholtz equation is applied to transforming the exterior boundary value problem in unbounded region into one in a finite region. Combined with RBC and scatterer surface boundary condition, Helmholtz equation is solved numerically by the finite difference method. Computational results for sphere and prolate spheroidal scatterers are in excellent agreement with eigenfunction solutions and much better than the results of OSRC method.

Comparisons between Isotropic and Anisotropic TV Regularizations in Inverse Acoustic Scattering

This article compares the isotropic and anisotropic TV regularizations used in inverse acoustic scattering. It is observed that compared with the traditional Tikhonov regularization, isotropic and anisotropic TV regularizations perform better in the sense of edge preserving. While anisotropic TV regularization will cause distortions along axes. To minimize the energy function with isotropic and anisotropic regularization terms, we use split Bregman scheme. We do several 2D numerical experiments to validate the above arguments.

Electromagnetic Scattering in a Two-layered Medium

The object of this paper is to investigate the three-dimensional electro- magnetic scattering problems in a two-layered background medium. These problems have an important application in today＇s technology, such as to detect objects that are buried in soil. Here, we model both the exterior impedance problem and the inhomogeneous medium problem in R3. We establish uniqueness and existence for the solution of the two scattering problems, respectively.

Scattering of water waves by thin vertical plate submerged below ice-cover surface

The present paper is concerned with scattering of water waves from a vertical plate, modeled as an elastic plate, submerged in deep water covered with a thin uniform sheet of ice. The problem is formulated in terms of a hypersingular integral equation by a suitable application of Green＇s integral theorem in terms of difference of potential functicns across the barrier. This integral equation is solved by a collocation method using a finite series involving Chebyshev polynomials. Reflection and transmission coefficients are obtained numerically and presented graphically for various values of the wave number and ice-cover parameter.

Application of Multi-Grid Method to the Computation of Electromagnetic Scatering Problems

The multi-grid method has been known as an efficient iterative method for the linear systems and nonlinear systems that arise from finite difference approximations for partial differential equations. In this paper, the multigrid method is extended to the application of solving integral equations which appear in electromagnetic scattering problems. The diakoptic theory is used for this purpose. Compared with other methods, the numerical results show that the multigrid method is powerful to solve electromagnetic scattering problems and can be used to compute electromagnetic scattering problems with electrically large bodies and complex structures.

Variational Approach to Scattering by Inhomogeneous Layers Above Rough Surfaces

In this paper, we study, via variational methods, the problem of scattering of time harmonic acoustic waves by unbounded inhomogeneous layers above a sound soft rough surface. We first propose a variational formulation and exploit it as a theoretical tool to prove the well-posedness of this problem when the media is non-absorbing for arbitrary wave number and obtain an estimate about the solution, which exhibit explicitly dependence of bound on the wave number and on the geometry of the domain. Then, based on the non-absorbing results, we show that the variational problem remains uniquely solvable when the layer is absorbing by means of a priori estimate of the solution. Finally, we consider the finite element approximation of the problem and give an error estimate.

DISCRETENESS OF THE EXTERIOR TRANSMISSION EIGENVALUES

In this paper we consider a kind of exterior transmission problem in which the refractive index n（x） is a piecewise positive constant. Through establishing an equivalent boundary integral system, we obtain that the set of exterior transmission eigenvalues is a discrete set. Furthermore, we prove that there does not exist a transmission eigenvalue under some conditions.

解洞穴逆散射问题的一种正则化Newton方法(英文)

We consider the inverse problem to determine the shape of a open cavity embedded in the infinite ground plane from knowledge of the far-field pattern of the scattering of TM polarization. For its approximate solution we propose a regularized Newton iteration scheme. For a foundation of Newton type methods we establish the Fr^chet differentiability of solution to the scattering problem with respect to the boundary of the cavity. Some numerical examples of the feasibility of the method are presented.

声学反问题的整体唯—性

It is proved that a sound-soft scatterer in R^N （N = 2, 3） is uniquely determined by a finite number of acoustic far-field measurements. The admissible scatterer possibly consists of finitely many solid obstacles and subsets of （N - 1）- dimensional hyperplanes.

Broad Learning System with Preprocessing to Recover the Scattering Obstacles with Far-Field Data

Based on Broad Learning System with preprocessing,the impenetrable obstacles were reconstructed.Firstly,the far-field data were preprocessed by Random Forest,and the shapes of the obstacles were classified by dividing the far-field data into different categories.Secondly,the broad learning system was employed for reconstructing the unknown scatterer.The far-field data of the scatterer were regarded as the input nodes of mapped features in the network,and all the mapped features were connected with the enhancement nodes of random weights to the output layer.Subsequently,the coefficient of the output can be obtained by the pseudoinverse.This method for the recovery of the scattering obstacles is named RF-BLS.Finally,numerical experiments revealed that the proposed method is effective,and that the training speed was significantly improved,compared with the deep learning method.

Microwave Through Wall Imaging via An Induced Current Learning Method

In this paper,an induced current learning method(ICLM)for microwave through wall imaging(TWI),named as TWI-ICLM,is proposed.In the inversion of induced current,the unknown object along with the enclosed walls are treated as a combination of scatterers.Firstly,a non-iterative method called distorted-Born backpropagation(DB-BP)is utilized to generate the initial result.In the training stage,several convolutional neural networks(CNNs)are cascaded to improve the estimated induced current.In addition,a hybrid loss function consisting of the induced current error and the permittivity error is used to optimize the network parameters.Finally,the relative permittivity images are conducted analytically using the predicted current based on ICLM.Both the numerical and experimental TWI tests prove that,the proposed method can achieve better imaging accuracy compared to traditional distorted-Born iterative method(DBIM).

A NEW INTEGRAL EQUATION FORMULATION FOR SCATTERING BY PENETRABLE DIFFRACTION GRATINGS

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic electromag- netic waves from penetrable diffraction gratings in the 2D polarization case. We propose a new, weakly singular, integral equation formulation for the scattering problem which is proved to be uniquely solvable. A main feature of the new integral equation formula- tion is that it avoids the computation of the normal derivative of double-layer potentials which is difficult and time consuming. A fast numerical algorithm is also developed for the scattering problem, based on the NystrSm method for the new integral equation. Nu- merical examples are also shown to illustrate the applicability of the new integral equation formulation.

THE FACTORIZATION METHOD FOR AN OPEN ARC

We consider the inverse scattering problem of determining the shape of a thin dielectric infinite cylinder having an open arc as cross section. Assuming that the electric field is polarized in the TM mode, this leads to a mixed boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation defined in the exterior of an open arc in R2. We suppose that the arc has mixed Dirichlet impedance boundary condition, and try to recover the shape of the arc through the far field pattern by using the factorization method. However, we are not able to apply the basic theorem introduced by Kirsch to treat the far field operator F, and some auxiliary operators have to be considered. The theoretical validation of the factorization method to our problem is given in this paper, and some numerical results are presented to show the viability of our method.