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most citedThe Funk-Radon transform for hyperplane sections through a common point

16 citations · 105 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

math.NA2026

A Discrete Radon Transform Based on the Area of Cube-Plane Intersection

Robert Beinert, Jonas Bresch, Michael Quellmalz

The Radon transform is a fundamental tool for analyzing data in tomographic imaging, optimal transport, crystallography, and geometric analysis. Numerical computations require an a…

math.NA2026

Application and Evaluation of the Common Circles Method

Michael Quellmalz, Mia Kvåle Løvmo, Simon Moser +2

We investigate the application of the common circle method for estimating sample motion in optical diffraction tomography (ODT) of sub-millimeter sized biological tissue. When samp…

cs.CV2026

HOT-POT: Optimal Transport for Sparse Stereo Matching

Antonin Clerc, Michael Quellmalz, Moritz Piening +3

Stereo vision between images faces a range of challenges, including occlusions, motion, and camera distortions, across applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and face analys…

stat.ML2025

Smoothed Distance Kernels for MMDs and Applications in Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Nicolaj Rux, Michael Quellmalz, Gabriele Steidl

Negative distance kernels were used in the definition of maximum mean discrepancies (MMDs) in statistics and lead to favorable numerical results in various ap…

math.NA2024

Fast Summation of Radial Kernels via QMC Slicing

Johannes Hertrich, Tim Jahn, Michael Quellmalz

The fast computation of large kernel sums is a challenging task, which arises as a subproblem in any kernel method. We approach the problem by slicing, which relies on random proje…

math.NA2024★ 1 cited

Slicing of Radial Functions: a Dimension Walk in the Fourier Space

Nicolaj Rux, Michael Quellmalz, Gabriele Steidl

Computations in high-dimensional spaces can often be realized only approximately, using a certain number of projections onto lower dimensional subspaces or sampling from distributi…

math.NA2024★ 3 cited

Generalized Fourier Diffraction Theorem and Filtered Backpropagation for Tomographic Reconstruction

Clemens Kirisits, Michael Quellmalz, Eric Setterqvist

This paper concerns diffraction-tomographic reconstruction of an object characterized by its scattering potential. We establish a rigorous generalization of the Fourier diffraction…

math.NA2024

Time-Harmonic Optical Flow with Applications in Elastography

Oleh Melnyk, Michael Quellmalz, Gabriele Steidl +3

In this paper, we propose mathematical models for reconstructing the optical flow in time-harmonic elastography. In this image acquisition technique, the object undergoes a special…

math.NA2024★ 7 cited

Parallelly Sliced Optimal Transport on Spheres and on the Rotation Group

Michael Quellmalz, Léo Buecher, Gabriele Steidl

Sliced optimal transport, which is basically a Radon transform followed by one-dimensional optimal transport, became popular in various applications due to its efficient computatio…

math.NA2023★ 9 cited

Sliced Optimal Transport on the Sphere

Michael Quellmalz, Robert Beinert, Gabriele Steidl

Sliced optimal transport reduces optimal transport on multi-dimensional domains to transport on the line. More precisely, sliced optimal transport is the concatenation of the well-…

math.NA2023★ 4 cited

A Frame Decomposition of the Funk-Radon Transform

Michael Quellmalz, Lukas Weissinger, Simon Hubmer +1

The Funk-Radon transform assigns to a function defined on the unit sphere its integrals along all great circles of the sphere. In this paper, we consider a frame decomposition of t…

math.NA2023★ 3 cited

A double Fourier sphere method for -dimensional manifolds

Sophie Mildenberger, Michael Quellmalz

The double Fourier sphere (DFS) method uses a clever trick to transform a function defined on the unit sphere to the torus and subsequently approximate it by a Fourier series, whic…

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

Total Variation-Based Reconstruction and Phase Retrieval for Diffraction Tomography with an Arbitrarily Moving Object

Robert Beinert, Michael Quellmalz

We consider the imaging problem of the reconstruction of a three-dimensional object via optical diffraction tomography under the assumptions of the Born approximation. Our focus li…

math.NA2022★ 5 cited

Motion Detection in Diffraction Tomography by Common Circle Methods

Michael Quellmalz, Peter Elbau, Otmar Scherzer +1

The method of common lines is a well-established reconstruction technique in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), which can be used to extract the relative orientations of an o…

math.OC2022★ 14 cited

Accelerating the Sinkhorn algorithm for sparse multi-marginal optimal transport by fast Fourier transforms

Fatima Antarou Ba, Michael Quellmalz

We consider the numerical solution of the discrete multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) by means of the Sinkhorn algorithm. In general, the Sinkhorn algorithm suffers from the cu…

math.NA2022★ 1 cited

Total variation-based reconstruction and phase retrieval for diffraction tomography

Robert Beinert, Michael Quellmalz

In optical diffraction tomography (ODT), the three-dimensional scattering potential of a microscopic object rotating around its center is recovered by a series of illuminations wit…

math.NA2021★ 6 cited

Diffraction Tomography, Fourier Reconstruction, and Full Waveform Inversion

Florian Faucher, Clemens Kirisits, Michael Quellmalz +2

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of diffraction tomography (DT), which is an inverse scattering technique used to find material properties of an object by i…

math.NA2021★ 6 cited

Approximation properties of the double Fourier sphere method

Sophie Mildenberger, Michael Quellmalz

We investigate analytic properties of the double Fourier sphere (DFS) method, which transforms a function defined on the two-dimensional sphere to a function defined on the two-dim…

math.NA2021★ 3 cited

Fourier reconstruction for diffraction tomography of an object rotated into arbitrary orientations

Clemens Kirisits, Michael Quellmalz, Monika Ritsch-Marte +3

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of optical diffraction tomography (ODT) for the scenario of a microscopic rigid particle rotating in a trap created, for in…

math.FA2020★ 2 cited

Continuous Wavelet Frames on the Sphere: The Group-Theoretic Approach Revisited

S. Dahlke, F. De Mari, E. De Vito +5

In \cite{AV99}, Antoine and Vandergheynst propose a group-theoretic approach to continuous wavelet frames on the sphere. The frame is constructed from a single so-called admissible…

math.NA2018★ 16 cited

The Funk-Radon transform for hyperplane sections through a common point

Michael Quellmalz

The Funk-Radon transform, also known as the spherical Radon transform, assigns to a function on the sphere its mean values along all great circles. Since its invention by Paul Funk…

math.NA2018★ 13 cited

The cone-beam transform and spherical convolution operators

Michael Quellmalz, Ralf Hielscher, Alfred K. Louis

The cone-beam transform consists of integrating a function defined on the three-dimensional space along every ray that starts on a certain scanning set. Based on Grangeat's formula…

math.NA2017★ 11 cited

An SVD in Spherical Surface Wave Tomography

Ralf Hielscher, Daniel Potts, Michael Quellmalz

In spherical surface wave tomography, one measures the integrals of a function defined on the sphere along great circle arcs. This forms a generalization of the Funk--Radon transfo…