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Full waveform inversion (FWI) is crucial for reconstructing high-resolution subsurface models, but it is often hindered, considering the limited data, by its null space resulting in low-resolution models, and more importantly, by its…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Xinquan Huang , Fu Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a technique widely used in geophysics to obtain high-resolution subsurface velocity models from waveform seismic data. Due to its large computation cost, most flavors of FWI rely only on the computation of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Mustafa Alfarhan , Matteo Ravasi , Fuqiang Chen , Tariq Alkhalifah

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

This paper investigates unsupervised learning of Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), which has been widely used in geophysics to estimate subsurface velocity maps from seismic data. This problem is mathematically formulated by a second order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Peng Jin , Xitong Zhang , Yinpeng Chen , Sharon Xiaolei Huang , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful geophysical imaging technique that produces high-resolution subsurface models by iteratively minimizing the misfit between the simulated and observed seismograms. Unfortunately,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Fangshu Yang , Jianwei Ma

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims to reconstruct unknown physical coefficients in wave equations using the wavefield data generated from multiple incoming sources. In this work, we propose an offline-online computational strategy for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Wen Ding , Kui Ren , Lu Zhang

Similarity measures for time series are important problems for time series classification. To handle the nonlinear time distortions, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) has been widely used. However, DTW is not learnable and suffers from a trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Shinnosuke Matsuo , Xiaomeng Wu , Gantugs Atarsaikhan , Akisato Kimura , Kunio Kashino , Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

This review explores the integration of deep learning (DL) with full-waveform inversion (FWI) for enhanced seismic imaging and subsurface characterization. It covers FWI and DL fundamentals, geophysical applications (velocity estimation,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Christopher Zerafa , Pauline Galea , Cristiana Sebu

We consider the high-resolution seismic imaging method called full-waveform inversion (FWI). FWI is a data fitting method aimed at inverting for subsurface mechanical parameters. Despite the large adoption of FWI by the academic and…

For the purpose of effective suppression of the cycle-skipping phenomenon in full waveform inversion (FWI), we developed a Deep Neural Network (DNN) approach to predict the absent low-frequency components by exploiting the implicit relation…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Wenyi Hu , Yuchen Jin , Xuqing Wu , Jiefu Chen

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is used to reconstruct the physical properties of subsurface media which plays an important role in seismic exploration. However, the precision of FWI is seriously affected by the absence or inaccuracy of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Zheng Cong , Xintong Dong , Shaoping Lu , Shiqi Dong , Xunqian Tong

Full waveform inversion (FWI) has become a widely adopted technique for high-resolution subsurface imaging. However, its inherent strong nonlinearity often results in convergence toward local minima. Recently, deep image prior-based…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Guangyuan Zou , Junlun Li , Feng Liu , Xuejing Zheng , Jianjian Xie , Guoyi Chen

Full-waveform inversion is a cutting-edge methodology for recovering high-resolution subsurface models. However, one of the main conventional full-waveform optimization problems challenges is cycle-skipping, usually leading us to an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Muhammad Izzatullah , Tariq Alkhalifah

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

This paper addresses learning end-to-end models for time series data that include a temporal alignment step via dynamic time warping (DTW). Existing approaches to differentiable DTW either differentiate through a fixed warping path or apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ming Xu , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Stephen Gould

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

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

Most of the available advanced misfit functions for full waveform inversion (FWI) are hand-crafted, and the performance of those misfit functions is data-dependent. Thus, we propose to learn a misfit function for FWI, entitled ML-misfit,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-03-19 Bingbing Sun , Tariq Alkhalifah

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 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