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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

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a widely used method in seismic data processing, capable of estimating models that represent the characteristics of the geological layers of the subsurface. Because it works with a massive amount of data,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Felipe H. S. da Silva , João B. Fernandes , Idalmis M. Sardina , Tiago Barros , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza , Italo A. S. Assis

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates unknown parameters in the wave equation from limited boundary measurements. Recent advances in neural reparameterized FWI (NeurFWI) demonstrate that representing the parameters using a neural network…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ruihua Chen , Yisi Luo , Bangyu Wu , Xile Zhao , Deyu Meng

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is widely used in geophysics to reconstruct high-resolution velocity maps from seismic data. The recent success of data-driven FWI methods results in a rapidly increasing demand for open datasets to serve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chengyuan Deng , Shihang Feng , Hanchen Wang , Xitong Zhang , Peng Jin , Yinan Feng , Qili Zeng , Yinpeng Chen , Youzuo Lin

Seismic velocity is one of the most important parameters used in seismic exploration. Accurate velocity models are key prerequisites for reverse-time migration and other high-resolution seismic imaging techniques. Such velocity information…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Fangshu Yang , Jianwei Ma

We present a technique for reconstructing subsurface velocity model changes from time-lapse seismic survey data using full-waveform inversion (FWI). The technique is based on simultaneously inverting multiple survey vintages, with model…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 Musa Maharramov , Biondo Biondi

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

Full Wave Inversion (FWI) imaging scheme has many applications in engineering, geoscience and medical sciences. In this paper, a surrogate deep learning FWI approach is presented to quantify properties of materials using stress waves. Such…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 Reza Rashetnia , Mohammad Pour-Ghaz

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) plays a vital role in reconstructing geophysical structures. The Uncertainty Quantification regarding the inversion results is equally important but has been missing out in most of the current geophysical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Qiancheng Liu , Stephen Beller , Wenjie Lei , Daniel Peter , Jeroen Tromp

To obtain high-resolution images of subsurface structures from seismic data, seismic imaging techniques such as Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) serve as crucial tools. However, FWI involves solving a nonlinear and often non-unique inverse…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Yuke Xie , Hervé Chauris , Nicolas Desassis

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a widely used technique in geophysics for inferring subsurface structures from seismic data. And InversionNet is one of the most successful data-driven machine learning models that is applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zhepeng Wang , Isaacshubhanand Putla , Weiwen Jiang , Youzuo Lin

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution seismic inversion technique popularly used in oil and gas exploration. Traditional FWI employs the $l_2$ norm measurement to minimize the misfit between observed and predicted seismic data.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Liangsheng He , Chao Song , Cai Liu

Frequency-domain Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is potentially amenable to efficient processing of full-azimuth long-offset stationary-recording seabed acquisition carried out with sparse layout of ocean bottom nodes (OBNs) and broadband…

Edema is a potential indicator of underlying pathological changes. However, its low-contrast signature is often masked in conventional B-mode imaging by strong scatterers, making reliable detection challenging. Ultrasound (US) provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Ruizhi Zhang , Yhonatan Kvich , Rui Guo , Oded Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

Spatially 3-dimensional seismic full waveform inversion (3D FWI) is a highly nonlinear and computationally demanding inverse problem that constructs 3D subsurface seismic velocity structures using seismic waveform data. To characterise…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Xuebin Zhao , Andrew Curtis

Conventional frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is typically implemented with an $L^2$ misfit function, which suffers from challenges such as cycle skipping and sensitivity to noise. While the Wasserstein metric has proven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Zhijun Zeng , Matej Neumann , Yunan Yang

Elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) when successfully applied can provide accurate and high-resolution subsurface parameters. However, its high computational cost prevents the application of this method to large-scale field-data…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Ettore Biondi , Guillaume Barnier , Biondo Biondi , Robert G. Clapp

Wave equations are fundamental to describing a vast array of physical phenomena, yet their simulation in inhomogeneous media poses a computational challenge due to the highly oscillatory nature of the solutions. To overcome the high costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiyang Cai , Zixuan Qiu , Yunlu Shu , Jiamao Wu , Yingzhou Li , Tianyu Wang , Xi Chen

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) has seen promising advancements through deep learning. Existing approaches typically focus on task-specific models trained and evaluated in isolation that lead to limited generalization across different…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Koustav Ghosal , Abhranta Panigrahi , Arnav Chavan , ArunSingh , Deepak Gupta

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is today a standard process for the inverse problem of seismic imaging. PDE-constrained optimization is used to determine unknown parameters in a wave equation that represent geophysical properties. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Bjorn Engquist , Yunan Yang