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Neural-networks have seen a surge of interest for the interpretation of seismic images during the last few years. Network-based learning methods can provide fast and accurate automatic interpretation, provided there are sufficiently many…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Bas Peters , Eldad Haber , Justin Granek

We simulate the response of acoustic seismic waves in horizontally layered media using a deep neural network. In contrast to traditional finite-difference modelling techniques our network is able to directly approximate the recorded seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Benjamin Moseley , Andrew Markham , Tarje Nissen-Meyer

The direct-current (DC) resistivity method is a commonly used geophysical technique for surveying adverse geological conditions. Inversion can reconstruct the resistivity model from data, which is an important step in the geophysical…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Bin Liu , Yonghao Pang , Peng Jiang , Zhengyu Liu , Benchao Liu , Yongheng Zhang , Yumei Cai , Jiawen Liu

Recent applications of machine learning algorithms in the seismic domain have shown great potential in different areas such as seismic inversion and interpretation. However, such algorithms rarely enforce geophysical constraints - the lack…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

We study deep learning approaches to inferring numerical coordinates for points of interest in an input image. Existing convolutional neural network-based solutions to this problem either take a heatmap matching approach or regress to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Aiden Nibali , Zhen He , Stuart Morgan , Luke Prendergast

Seismic exploration remains the most critical method for characterizing subsurface structures in geophysics. However, complex surface conditions often cause a non-uniform distribution of seismic receivers along survey lines, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Mingwei Wang , Junheng Peng , Yingtian Liu , Yong Li

We propose a new method that uses deep learning techniques to solve the inverse problems. The inverse problem is cast in the form of learning an end-to-end mapping from observed data to the ground-truth. Inspired by the splitting strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Kai Fan , Qi Wei , Wenlin Wang , Amit Chakraborty , Katherine Heller

An accurate velocity model is essential to make a good seismic image. Conventional methods to perform Velocity Model Building (VMB) tasks rely on inverse methods, which, despite being widely used, are ill-posed problems that require intense…

Traditional seismic processing workflows (SPW) are expensive, requiring over a year of human and computational effort. Deep learning (DL) based data-driven seismic workflows (DSPW) hold the potential to reduce these timelines to a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Zhaozhuo Xu , Aditya Desai , Menal Gupta , Anu Chandran , Antoine Vial-Aussavy , Anshumali Shrivastava

The reconstruction of the 3D permittivity map from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is of great importance for mapping subsurface environments and inspecting underground structural integrity. Traditional iterative 3D reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Qiqi Dai , Yee Hui Lee , Hai-Han Sun , Genevieve Ow , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

This paper proposes a neural network approach for solving two classical problems in the two-dimensional inverse wave scattering: far field pattern problem and seismic imaging. The mathematical problem of inverse wave scattering is to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

In a variety of geoscientific applications scientists often need to image properties of the Earth's interior in order to understand the heterogeneity and processes taking place within the Earth. Seismic tomography is one such method which…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Xin Zhang , Kaiwen Xia

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

Extracting subsurface velocity information from seismic data is mainly an undetermined problem that requires injecting a priori information to constrain the inversion process. Machine learning has offered a platform to do so through the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Xiao Ma , Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Applying deep-learning models to geophysical applications has attracted special attentions during the past a couple of years. There are several papers published in this domain involving with different topics primarily focusing on synthetic…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 Ping Lu

Gravity inversion is the problem of estimating subsurface density distributions from observed gravitational field data. We consider the two-dimensional (2D) case, in which recovering density models from one-dimensional (1D) measurements…

Downward continuation is a critical task in potential field processing, including gravity and magnetic fields, which aims to transfer data from one observation surface to another that is closer to the source of the field. Its effectiveness…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Jing Sun , Lu Li , Liang Zhang

This paper investigates unsupervised learning of Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), which has been widely used in geophysics to estimate subsurface velocity maps from seismic data. This problem is mathematically formulated by a second order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Peng Jin , Xitong Zhang , Yinpeng Chen , Sharon Xiaolei Huang , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) reconstructs high-resolution subsurface models via multi-variate optimization but faces challenges with solver selection and data availability. Deep Learning (DL) offers a promising alternative, bridging…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Christopher Zerafa

Reliable earthquake detection and seismic phase classification is often challenging especially in the circumstances of low magnitude events or poor signal-to-noise ratio. With improved seismometers and better global coverage, a sharp…