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Frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is suitable for long-offset stationary-recording acquisition, since reliable subsurface models can be reconstructed with a few frequencies and attenuation is easily implemented without…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Stéphane Operto , Pierre-Henri Tournier

Ultrasonic imaging methods often assume linear direct models, while in reality, many nonlinear phenomena are present, e.g. multiple reflections. A family of imaging methods called Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), which has been developed in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Daniel Rossato , Thiago Alberto Rigo Passarin , Gustavo Pinto Pires , Daniel Rodrigues Pipa

We introduce a probabilistic technique for full-waveform inversion, employing variational inference and conditional normalizing flows to quantify uncertainty in migration-velocity models and its impact on imaging. Our approach integrates…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ziyi Yin , Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Acoustic- and elastic-waveform inversion is an important and widely used method to reconstruct subsurface velocity image. Waveform inversion is a typical non-linear and ill-posed inverse problem. Existing physics-driven computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Zhongping Zhang , Youzuo Lin

Full waveform inversion (FWI) delivers high-resolution images of the subsurface by minimizing iteratively the misfit between the recorded and calculated seismic data. It has been attacked successfully with the Gauss-Newton method and…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-11-07 Lingchen Zhu , Entao Liu , James H. McClellan

Iterative inversion of seismic, ultrasonic, and other wave data by local gradient-based optimization of mean-square data prediction error (Full Waveform Inversion or FWI) can fail to converge to useful model estimates if started from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 William W. Symes , Huiyi Chen , Susan E. Minkoff

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

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

Computational imaging plays a vital role in various scientific and medical applications, such as Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), Computed Tomography (CT), and Electromagnetic (EM) inversion. These methods address inverse problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Yueh Lee , Youzuo Lin

In this article, continuous Galerkin finite elements are applied to perform full waveform inversion (FWI) for seismic velocity model building. A time-domain FWI approach is detailed that uses meshes composed of variably sized triangular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Keith J. Roberts , Alexandre Olender , Lucas Franceschini , Robert C. Kirby , Rafael S. Gioria , Bruno S. Carmo

Time-lapse images carry out important information about dynamic changes in Earth's interior which can be inferred using different Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) schemes. The estimation process is performed by manipulating more than one…

We present Lift and Relax for Waveform Inversion (LRWI), an approach that mitigates the local minima issue in seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) via a combination of two convexification techniques. The first technique (Lift) extends the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Zhilong Fang , Laurent Demanet

In our paper [SIAM J.\ Appl.~Math.\ 79-6 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1269403] we considered full waveform inversion (FWI) in the viscoelastic regime. FWI entails the nonlinear inverse problem of recovering parameter functions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Andreas Kirsch , Andreas Rieder

Efficient frequency-domain Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) of long-offset node data can be designed with a few discrete frequencies hence allowing for compact volume of data to be managed. Moreover, attenuation effects can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 P. -H. Tournier , P. Jolivet , V. Dolean , H. S. Aghamiry , S. Operto , S. Riffo

Extended full-waveform inversion (FWI) has shown promising results for accurate estimation of subsurface parameters when the initial models are not sufficiently accurate. Frequency-domain applications have shown that the augmented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stephane Operto

Seismic full-waveform inversion is a core technology for obtaining high-resolution subsurface model parameters. However, its highly nonlinear characteristics and strong dependence on the initial model often lead to the inversion process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Caiyun Liu , Siyang Pei , Qingfeng Yu , Jie Xiong

Seismic inversion is a core problem in geophysical exploration, where traditional methods suffer from high computational costs and are susceptible to initial model dependence. In recent years, deep generative model-based seismic inversion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haofei Xu , Wei Cheng , Sizhe Li , Jie Xiong

Partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization problems such as seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) frequently arise in the geoscience and related fields. For such problems, many observations are usually gathered by multiple…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Kamal Aghazade , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stephane Operto

The emergence of long-offset sparse stationary-recording surveys carried out with ocean bottom nodes (OBN) makes frequency-domain full waveform inversion (FWI) attractive to manage compact volume of data and perform attenuation imaging. One…

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) with extended sources first computes wavefields with data-driven source extensions, such that the simulated data in inaccurate velocity models match the observed counterpart well enough to prevent cycle…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-03-03 Gaoshan Guo , Stephane Operto , Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry