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This study proposes a high-performance dual-parameter full waveform inversion framework (FWI) for ground-penetrating radar (GPR), accelerated through the hybrid compilation of CUDA kernel functions and PyTorch. The method leverages the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Lei Liu , Chao Song , Liangsheng He , Silin Wang , Xuan Feng , Cai Liu

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates physical parameters in the wave equation from limited measurements and has been widely applied in geophysical exploration, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Conventional FWI methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruihua Chen , Yisi Luo , Bangyu Wu , Deyu Meng

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

Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversion, subsurface flow processes, and rock physics models. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Dongzhuo Li , Kailai Xu , Jerry M. Harris , Eric Darve

In recent years, Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) has been extensively used to derive high-resolution subsurface velocity models from seismic data. However, due to the nonlinearity and ill-posed nature of the problem, FWI requires a good…

Phased array ultrasound is a widely used technique in non-destructive testing. Using piezoelectric elements as both sources and receivers provides a significant gain in information and enables more accurate defect detection. When all…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tim Bürchner , Simon Schmid , Lukas Bergbreiter , Ernst Rank , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Christian U. Grosse

Global seismic tomography, taking advantage of seismic waves from natural earthquakes, provides essential insights into the earth's internal dynamics. Advanced Full-waveform Inversion (FWI) techniques, whose aim is to meticulously interpret…

The total variation (TV) flow generates a scale-space representation of an image based on the TV functional. This gradient flow observes desirable features for images, such as sharp edges and enables spectral, scale, and texture analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tamara G. Grossmann , Sören Dittmer , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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…

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

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

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

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

Total Variation (TV) is a popular regularization strategy that promotes piece-wise constant signals by constraining the $\ell_1$-norm of the first order derivative of the estimated signal. The resulting optimization problem is usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Hamza Cherkaoui , Jeremias Sulam , Thomas Moreau

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

Full waveform inversion is a successful procedure for determining properties of the earth from surface measurements in seismology. This inverse problem is solved by a PDE constrained optimization where unknown coefficients in a computed…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Bjorn Engquist , Brittany D. Froese , Yunan Yang

Subsurface property neural network reparameterized full waveform inversion (FWI) has emerged as an effective unsupervised learning framework, which can invert stably with an inaccurate starting model. It updates the trainable neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruihua Chen , Bangyu Wu , Meng Li , Kai Yang

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

Total variation (TV) minimization is one of the most important techniques in modern signal/image processing, and has wide range of applications. While there are numerous recent works on the restoration guarantee of the TV minimization in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jian-Feng Cai , Jae Kyu Choi , Ke Wei