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Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a method that utilizes seismic data to invert the physical parameters of subsurface media by minimizing the difference between simulated and observed waveforms. Due to its ill-posed nature, FWI is…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Xintong Dong , Zhengyi Yuan , Jun Lin , Shiqi Dong , Xunqian Tong , Yue Li

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a highly nonlinear and ill-posed problem. On one hand, it can be easily trapped in a local minimum. On the other hand, the inversion results may exhibit strong artifacts and reduced resolution because of…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Dongzhuo Li , Jerry M. Harris

We propose and test a method to reduce the dimensionality of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) inputs as computational cost mitigation approach. Given modern seismic acquisition systems, the data (as input for FWI) required for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Maayan Gelboim , Amir Adler , Mauricio Araya-Polo

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear computational imaging technique that can provide detailed estimates of subsurface geophysical properties. Solving the FWI problem can be challenging due to its ill-posedness and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Renán Rojas-Gómez , Jihyun Yang , Youzuo Lin , James Theiler , Brendt Wohlberg

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) uses full seismic records to estimate subsurface velocity structure. This requires a highly nonlinear and nonunique inverse problem to be solved, and Bayesian methods have been used to quantify…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 Xin Zhang , Andrew Curtis

Producing reliable acoustic subsurface velocity models still remains the main bottleneck of the oil and gas industry's traditional imaging sequence. In complex geological settings, the output of conventional ray-based or wave-equation-based…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Guillaume Barnier , Ettore Biondi , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi

The full-waveform inversion (FWI) addresses the computation and characterization of subsurface model parameters by matching predicted data to observed seismograms in the frame of nonlinear optimization. We formulate FWI as a nonlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stéphane Operto

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a technique widely used in geophysics to obtain high-resolution subsurface velocity models from waveform seismic data. Due to its large computation cost, most flavors of FWI rely only on the computation of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Mustafa Alfarhan , Matteo Ravasi , Fuqiang Chen , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a widely used technique in seismic processing to produce high resolution Earth models that fully explain the recorded seismic data. FWI is a local optimisation problem which aims to minimise in a…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Christopher Zerafa , Pauline Galea , Cristiana Sebu

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is known as a seismic data processing method that achieves high-resolution imaging. In the inversion part of the method that brings high resolution in finding a convergence point in the model space, a local…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Jiahang Li , Hitoshi Mikada , Junichi Takekawa

This paper proposes a new method that combines check-pointing methods with error-controlled lossy compression for large-scale high-performance Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), an inverse problem commonly used in geophysical exploration. This…

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has become a widely adopted technique for high-resolution subsurface imaging. However, its inherent strong nonlinearity often results in convergence toward local minima. Recently, deep image prior-based…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Guangyuan Zou , Junlun Li , Feng Liu , Xuejing Zheng , Jianjian Xie , Guoyi Chen

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims to reconstruct unknown physical coefficients in wave equations using the wavefield data generated from multiple incoming sources. In this work, we propose an offline-online computational strategy for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Wen Ding , Kui Ren , Lu Zhang

In salt provinces, full-waveform inversion (FWI) is most likely to fail when starting with a poor initial model that lacks the salt information. Conventionally, salt bodies are included in the FWI starting model by interpreting the salt…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-07 Abdullah Alali , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full-Waveform Inversion seeks to achieve a high-resolution model of the subsurface through the application of multi-variate optimization to the seismic inverse problem. Although now a mature technology, FWI has limitations related to the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Christopher Zerafa , Pauline Galea , Cristiana Sebu

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has the potential to provide high-resolution subsurface model estimations. However, due to limitations in observation, e.g., regional noise, limited shots or receivers, and band-limited data, it is hard to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Fu Wang , Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear waveform matching procedure, which suffers from cycle skipping when the initial model is not kinematically-accurate enough. To mitigate cycle skipping, wavefield reconstruction inversion (WRI)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) has now become a widely accepted tool to obtain high-resolution velocity models from seismic data. Typically, the velocity model in its discrete form is represented on a rectangular grid, and we solve for the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-25 Reetam Biswas , Mrinal K. Sen

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative identification process that serves to minimize the misfit of model-based simulated and experimentally measured wave field data, with the goal of identifying a field of parameters for a given…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tim Bürchner , Philipp Kopp , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Ernst Rank

We describe a new method, full waveform inversion by model extension (FWIME) that recovers accurate acoustic subsurface velocity models from seismic data, when conventional methods fail. We leverage the advantageous convergence properties…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Guillaume Barnier , Ettore Biondi , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi