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Seismic waves are the most sensitive probe of the Earth's interior we have. With the dense data sets available in exploration, images of subsurface structures can be obtained through processes such as migration. Unfortunately, relating…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann

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…

This paper concerns the Time-Domain Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) for dispersive and dissipative poroelastic materials. The forward problem is an initial boundary value problem (IBVP) of the poroelastic equations with a memory term; the FWI…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Miao-jung Yvonne Ou , Petr Plecháč , Jiangming Xie

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an important and popular technique in subsurface earth property estimation. However, using the least-squares norm in the misfit function often leads to the local minimum solution of the optimization problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Da Li , Michael P. Lamoureux , Wenyuan Liao

Inverse design is a central goal in much of science and engineering, including frequency-selective surfaces (FSS) that are critical to microelectronics for telecommunications and optical metamaterials. Traditional surrogate-assisted…

Recent developments in application of deep learning models to acoustic Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) are marked by the use of diffusion models as prior distributions for Bayesian-like inference procedures. The advantage of these methods is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 A. S. Stankevich , I. B. Petrov

We present a wave-equation inversion method that inverts skeletonized data for the subsurface velocity model. The skeletonized representation of the seismic traces consists of the low-rank latent-space variables predicted by a well-trained…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-25 Yuqing Chen , Gerard T. Schuster

Conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) using the least-squares norm ($L^2$) as a misfit function is known to suffer from cycle skipping. This increases the risk of computing a local rather than the global minimum of the misfit. In our…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-05-12 Yunan Yang , Björn Engquist , Junzhe Sun , Brittany D. Froese

Implementation of the standard full waveform inversion (FWI) poses difficulties as the initial model offsets from the true model. The wavefield reconstruction inversion (WRI) was proposed to mitigate these difficulties by relaxing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Ali Gholami , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Stephane Operto

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 2020-04-15 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Stéphane Operto , Pierre-Henri Tournier

Time-lapse full-waveform inversion (FWI) has become a powerful tool for characterizing and monitoring subsurface changes in various geophysical applications. However, non-repeatability (NR) issues caused, for instance, by GPS inaccuracies,…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-11 Sergio Luiz E. F. da Silva , Ammir Karsou , Roger M. Moreira , Marco Cetale

In the Oil and Gas industry, estimating a subsurface velocity field is an essential step in seismic processing, reservoir characterization, and hydrocarbon volume calculation. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) velocity modeling is an iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Saraiva Marcus , Forechi Avelino , de Oliveira Neto Jorcy , DelRey Antonio , Rauber Thomas

Wavefield reconstruction inversion (WRI) extends the search space of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) by allowing for wave equation errors during wavefield reconstruction to match the data from the first iteration. Then, the wavespeeds are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

In the study of subsurface seismic imaging, solving the acoustic wave equation is a pivotal component in existing models. The advancement of deep learning enables solving partial differential equations, including wave equations, by applying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Bian Li , Hanchen Wang , Shihang Feng , Xiu Yang , Youzuo Lin

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

Iterative geostatistical seismic inversion integrates seismic and well data to infer the spatial distribution of subsurface elastic properties. These methods provide limited assessment to the spatial uncertainty of the inverted elastic…

We review four types of algorithms for physics-informed machine learning (PIML) inversion of geophysical data. The unifying equation is given by the joint objective function $\epsilon$: \begin{eqnarray} \epsilon^{||-PIML}&=&\lambda_1…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Gerard T. Schuster , Shihang Feng

Full Waveform Inversion can be made immune to cycle skipping by matching the recorded data arbitrarily well from inaccurate subsurface models. To achieve this goal, the simulated wavefields can be computed in an extended search space as the…

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the only imaging modality for non-invasive movement detection of in vivo water molecules, with significant clinical and research applications. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) MRI acquired by…

A foundational challenge in uncertainty quantification involves estimating a probability measure on the space of uncertain parameters such that its push-forward through a computational model matches an observed probability measure on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tianyi Jiang , Troy Butler , Timothy Wildey , Tim Kutta , Haonan Wang