Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering from a Single Transmitter

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Main Authors: Cheng, Yizhe, Tian, Chunxun, Wang, Haoru, Zhu, Wentao, Ma, Xiaoxuan, Wang, Yizhou
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author Cheng, Yizhe
Tian, Chunxun
Wang, Haoru
Zhu, Wentao
Ma, Xiaoxuan
Wang, Yizhou
author_facet Cheng, Yizhe
Tian, Chunxun
Wang, Haoru
Zhu, Wentao
Ma, Xiaoxuan
Wang, Yizhou
contents Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems (EISP) seek to reconstruct relative permittivity from scattered fields and are fundamental to applications like medical imaging. This inverse process is inherently ill-posed and highly nonlinear, making it particularly challenging, especially under sparse transmitter setups, e.g., with only one transmitter. While recent machine learning-based approaches have shown promising results, they often rely on time-consuming, case-specific optimization and perform poorly under sparse transmitter setups. To address these limitations, we revisit EISP from a data-driven perspective. The scarcity of transmitters leads to an insufficient amount of measured data, which fails to capture adequate physical information for stable inversion. Accordingly, we propose a fully end-to-end and data-driven framework that predicts the relative permittivity of scatterers from measured fields, leveraging data distribution priors to compensate for the incomplete information from sparse measurements. This design enables data-driven training and feed-forward prediction of relative permittivity while maintaining strong robustness to transmitter sparsity. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in reconstruction accuracy and robustness. Notably, we demonstrate, for the first time, high-quality reconstruction from a single transmitter. This work advances practical electromagnetic imaging by providing a new, cost-effective paradigm to inverse scattering. Code and models are released at https://gomenei.github.io/SingleTX-EISP/.
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Cheng, Yizhe
Tian, Chunxun
Wang, Haoru
Zhu, Wentao
Ma, Xiaoxuan
Wang, Yizhou
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems (EISP) seek to reconstruct relative permittivity from scattered fields and are fundamental to applications like medical imaging. This inverse process is inherently ill-posed and highly nonlinear, making it particularly challenging, especially under sparse transmitter setups, e.g., with only one transmitter. While recent machine learning-based approaches have shown promising results, they often rely on time-consuming, case-specific optimization and perform poorly under sparse transmitter setups. To address these limitations, we revisit EISP from a data-driven perspective. The scarcity of transmitters leads to an insufficient amount of measured data, which fails to capture adequate physical information for stable inversion. Accordingly, we propose a fully end-to-end and data-driven framework that predicts the relative permittivity of scatterers from measured fields, leveraging data distribution priors to compensate for the incomplete information from sparse measurements. This design enables data-driven training and feed-forward prediction of relative permittivity while maintaining strong robustness to transmitter sparsity. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in reconstruction accuracy and robustness. Notably, we demonstrate, for the first time, high-quality reconstruction from a single transmitter. This work advances practical electromagnetic imaging by providing a new, cost-effective paradigm to inverse scattering. Code and models are released at https://gomenei.github.io/SingleTX-EISP/.
title Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering from a Single Transmitter
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21349