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Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a successful and well-established inverse method for reconstructing material models from measured wave signals. In the field of seismic exploration, FWI has proven particularly successful in the…

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

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative nonlinear waveform matching procedure subject to wave-equation constraint. FWI is highly nonlinear when the wave-equation constraint is enforced at each iteration. To mitigate nonlinearity,…

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

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

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a standard algorithm in seismic imaging. Its implementation requires the a priori choice of a number of "design parameters", such as the positions of sensors for the actual measurements and one (or more)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Shaunagh Downing , Silvia Gazzola , Ivan G. Graham , Euan A. Spence

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) stands as a nonlinear, high-resolution technology for subsurface imaging via surface-recorded data. This paper introduces an augmented Lagrangian dual formulation for FWI, rooted in the viewpoint that Lagrange…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Kamal Aghazade , Ali Gholami

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is capable of reconstructing subsurface properties with high resolution from seismic data. However, conventional FWI faces challenges such as cycle-skipping and high computational costs. Recently, deep learning…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Hao Zhang , Yuanyuan Li , Jianping Huang

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to address the Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) problem with a Total Variation (TV) constraint, designed to accurately reconstruct subsurface properties from seismic data. FWI, as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Yudai Inada , Shingo Takemoto , Shunsuke Ono

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful yet computationally expensive technique that can yield subsurface models at high resolution. Randomly selected shots ("mini-batches") can be used to approximate the misfit and the gradient of FWI,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Bharath Shekar

Seismic waves bring information from the physical properties of the earth to the surface. Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a local optimization technique which tries to invert the recorded wave fields to the physical properties. An…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Nasser Kazemi

Full waveform inversion (FWI) infers the subsurface structure information from seismic waveform data by solving a non-convex optimization problem. Data-driven FWI has been increasingly studied with various neural network architectures to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Min Zhu , Shihang Feng , Youzuo Lin , Lu Lu

Full waveform inversion (FWI) plays an important role in velocity modeling due to its high-resolution advantages. However, its highly non-linear characteristic leads to numerous local minimums, which is known as the cycle-skipping problem.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Qingchen Zhang , Shijun Cheng , Wei Chen , Weijian Mao

Full waveform inversion (FWI) strongly depends on an accurate starting model to succeed. This is particularly true in the elastic regime: The cycle-skipping phenomenon is more severe in elastic FWI compared to acoustic FWI, due to the short…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Hongyu Sun , Laurent Demanet

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) techniques aim to find a high-resolution subsurface geophysical model provided with waveform data. Some recent effort in data-driven FWI has shown some encouraging results in obtaining 2D velocity maps.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Qili Zeng , Shihang Feng , Brendt Wohlberg , Youzuo Lin

In recent years, uncertainty-aware full waveform inversion (FWI) has received increasing attention, with a growing emphasis on producing informative uncertainty estimates alongside inversion results. Bayesian inference methods--particularly…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yunduo Li , Yijie Zhang , Xueyu Zhu , Jinghuai Gao

A novel approach to full waveform inversion (FWI), based on a data driven reduced order model (ROM) of the wave equation operator is introduced. The unknown medium is probed with pulses and the time domain pressure waveform data is recorded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Alexander V. Mamonov , Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Jörn Zimmerling

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims at estimating subsurface medium properties from measured seismic data. It is usually cast as a non-linear least-squares problem that incorporates uncertainties in the measurements. In exploration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tristan van Leeuwen

Full waveform inversion (FWI) iteratively updates the velocity model by minimizing the difference between observed and simulated data. Due to the high computational cost and memory requirements associated with global optimization…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Xinru Mu , Omar M. Saad , Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a critical technique in subsurface imaging, aiming to reconstruct high-resolution subsurface properties from surface measurements. Acoustic FWI involves two physical modalities, seismic waveforms and…

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is beginning to be used to characterize weak seismic events at different scales, an example of which is microseismic event (MSE) characterization. However, FWI with unknown sources is a severely underdetermined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto , Alison Malcolm

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a process in which seismic numerical simulations are fit to observed data by changing the wave velocity model of the medium under investigation. The problem is non-linear, and therefore optimization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Eran Treister , Eldad Haber