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Non-invasive surface wave methods have become a popular alternative to traditional invasive forms of site-characterization for inferring a site's subsurface shear wave velocity (Vs) structure. The advantage of surface wave methods over…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 Joseph P. Vantassel , Brady R. Cox

Deep learning is an increasingly popular approach for inverting surface wave dispersion curves to obtain Vs profiles. However, its generalizability is constrained by the depth and velocity scales of training data. We propose a unified deep…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Tianjian Cheng , Hongrui Xu , Jiayu Feng , Xiongyu Hu , Chaofan Yao

Surface wave dispersion curve inversion plays a critical role in both shallow resource exploration and deep geological studies, yet it remains hindered by sensitivity to initial models and low computational efficiency. Recently, data-driven…

Surface wave dispersion curve inversion is crucial for estimating subsurface shear-wave velocity (vs), yet traditional methods often face challenges related to computational cost, non-uniqueness, and sensitivity to initial models. While…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Feng Liu , Bao Deng , Rui Su , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang

A new inversion method for determining near-surface shear currents from a measured wave spectrum is introduced. The method is straightforward to implement and starts from the existing state-of-the-art technique of assigning effective depths…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Benjamin K. Smeltzer , Eirik Æsøy , Anna Ådnøy , Simen Å. Ellingsen

SWEEP (Seismic Wave Equation Exploration Platform) is a unified and extensible wave equation solver library designed for wavefield modeling and inversion. It supports a wide range of wave propagation engines, including acoustic, elastic,…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Rayleigh wave dispersion curves have been widely used in near-surface studies, and are primarily inverted for the shear wave (S-wave) velocity profiles. However, the inverse problem is ill-posed, non-unique and nonlinear. Here, we introduce…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 Rohan Sharma , Divakar Vashisth , Bharath Shekar

The inversion of surface wave dispersion curves poses significant challenges due to the non-uniqueness, nonlinear, & ill-posed nature of the problem. Local search methods get trapped in suboptimal minima, whereas global search methods are…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Kousik Mandal , Tarun Naskar

Diffusion inversion is a task of recovering the noise of an image in a diffusion model, which is vital for controllable diffusion image editing. At present, diffusion inversion still remains a challenging task due to the lack of viable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ziyue Zhang , Luxi Lin , Xiaolin Hu , Chao Chang , HuaiXi Wang , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Inversion of Rayleigh-wave dispersion data is particularly challenging at sites with strong impedance contrasts, where modal energy often transitions smoothly from the fundamental to higher modes at low frequencies. Analysts may…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mrinal Bhaumik , Brady R. Cox

Waveform inversion is theoretically a powerful tool to reconstruct subsurface structures, but a usually encountered problem is that accurate sources are very rare, causing the computation unstable and divergent. This challenging problem,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Han Yu

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversion, subsurface flow processes, and rock physics models. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Dongzhuo Li , Kailai Xu , Jerry M. Harris , Eric Darve

Diffusion models based on permutation-equivariant networks can learn permutation-invariant distributions for graph data. However, in comparison to their non-invariant counterparts, we have found that these invariant models encounter greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Qi Yan , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Song , Renjie Liao , Lele Wang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims to reconstruct subsurface velocity models from observed seismic wavefields and has recently benefited from advances in deep learning (DL). The performance of DL-based FWI critically depends on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zekai Guo , Lihui Chai , Ye Li

This study presents a deep learning-based approach to seismic velocity inversion problem, focusing on both noisy and noiseless training datasets of varying sizes. Our Seismic Velocity Inversion Network (SVInvNet) introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Mojtaba Najafi Khatounabad , Hacer Yalim Keles , Selma Kadioglu

Accurately characterizing migration velocity models is crucial for a wide range of geophysical applications, from hydrocarbon exploration to monitoring of CO2 sequestration projects. Traditional velocity model building methods such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Rafael Orozco , Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Yunlin Zeng , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Inversion techniques are widely used to reconstruct subsurface physical properties (e.g., velocity, conductivity) from surface-based geophysical measurements (e.g., seismic, electric/magnetic (EM) data). The problems are governed by partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Shihang Feng , Peng Jin , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Wavelet scattering networks, which are convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with fixed filters and weights, are promising tools for image analysis. Imposing symmetry on image statistics can improve human interpretability, aid in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Andrew K. Saydjari , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We propose and test the Direct Waveform Inversion (DWI) scheme to simultaneously invert for layered velocity and density profiles, using reflection seismic waveforms recorded on the surface. The recorded data include primary reflections and…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Zhonghan Liu , Yingcai Zheng , Hua-Wei Zhou

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an advanced technique for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface physical parameters by progressively minimizing the discrepancy between observed and predicted seismic data. However, conventional FWI…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Chao Song , Tariq Alkhalifah , Umair Bin Waheed , Silin Wang , Cai Liu
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