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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…

In a broad and fundamental type of ''inverse problems'' in science, one infers a spatially distributed physical attribute based on observations of processes that are controlled by the spatial attribute in question. The data-generating field…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-09 Zepu Zhang

We propose a novel composite framework to find unknown fields in the context of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs). We blend the high expressibility of deep neural networks as universal function estimators with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Samira Pakravan , Pouria A. Mistani , Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo , Frederic Gibou

Recently, multiple formulations of vision problems as probabilistic inversions of generative models based on computer graphics have been proposed. However, applications to 3D perception from natural images have focused on low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Tejas D. Kulkarni , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Understanding Earth's subsurface structures has been and continues to be an essential component of various applications such as environmental monitoring, carbon sequestration, and oil and gas exploration. By viewing the seismic volumes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 G. AlRegib , M. Deriche , Z. Long , H. Di , Z. Wang , Y. Alaudah , M. Shafiq , M. Alfarraj

Nonlinear least squares data-fitting driven by physical process simulation is a classic and widely successful technique for the solution of inverse problems in science and engineering. Known as "Full Waveform Inversion" in application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 William W. Symes

We propose a novel inverse-modelling approach which estimates the parameters of a simple land-surface model (LSM) by assimilating data into a differentiable physics-based forward model. The governing equations are expressed within a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiyue Huang , Claire E. Heaney , Maarten van Reeuwijk

Incorporating a deep generative model as the prior distribution in inverse problems has established substantial success in reconstructing images from corrupted observations. Notwithstanding, the existing optimization approaches use gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tianci Liu , Tong Yang , Quan Zhang , Qi Lei

In a previous paper, we introduced a framework for carrying out petrophysically and geologically guided geophysical inversions. In that framework, petrophysical and geological information is modelled with a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). In…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Thibaut Astic , Lindsey J. Heagy , Douglas W. Oldenburg

Integral equations frequently arise in surface science, and in some cases, they must be treated as inverse problems. In our previous work on optical tweezers, atomic force microscopy, and surface force measurement apparatus, we performed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-13 Keito Hashidate , Rieko Iwayasu , Takumi Otake , Ken-ichi Amano

Diffusion models offer stable training and state-of-the-art performance for deep generative modeling tasks. Here, we consider their use in the context of multivariate subsurface modeling and probabilistic inversion. We first demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Roberto Miele , Niklas Linde

Reconstructing PDE-governed fields from sparse and irregular measurements is challenging due to their ill-posed nature. Deterministic surrogates are trained on dense fields that struggle with limited measurements and uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hao Zhou , Rui Zhang , Han Wan , Hao Sun

This paper presents a new joint inversion approach to shape-based inverse problems. Given two sets of data from distinct physical models, the main objective is to obtain a unified characterization of inclusions within the spatial domain of…

We propose a model that is able to perform unsupervised physical parameter estimation of systems from video, where the differential equations governing the scene dynamics are known, but labeled states or objects are not available. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Miguel Jaques , Michael Burke , Timothy Hospedales

Seismic acoustic impedance inversion is one of the most challenging tasks in geophysical exploration. Many studies have proposed the use of deep learning for processing; however, most of them are limited by factors such as seismic wavelets…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Junheng Peng , Xiaowen Wang , Yingtian Liu , Yong Li , Mingwei Wang

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear iterative seismic imaging technique that, by reducing the misfit between recorded and predicted seismic waveforms, can produce detailed estimates of subsurface geophysical properties.…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Vahid Negahdari , Seyed Reza Moghadasi , Mohammad Reza Razvan

We study the seismic inverse problem for the recovery of subsurface properties in acoustic media. In order to reduce the ill-posedness of the problem, the heterogeneous wave speed parameter to be recovered is represented using a limited…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer , Hélène Barucq

Inline holographic imaging presents an ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing objects' complex amplitude from recorded diffraction patterns. Although recent deep learning approaches have shown promise over classical phase retrieval…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-02 Chanseok Lee , Fakhriyya Mammadova , Jiseong Barg , Mooseok Jang

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) provides high resolution images of the subsurface by exploiting information in the recorded seismic waveforms. This is achieved by solving a highly nonnlinear and nonunique inverse problem. Bayesian…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xin Zhang , Angus Lomas , Muhong Zhou , York Zheng , Andrew Curtis

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool in various fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. It can unravel hidden patterns within large data sets and reveal unparalleled insights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Abdeldjalil Latrach , Mohamed Lamine Malki , Misael Morales , Mohamed Mehana , Minou Rabiei