Rapid seismic domain transfer: Seismic velocity inversion and modeling using deep generative neural networks

05/22/2018
by   Lukas Mosser, et al.
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Traditional physics-based approaches to infer sub-surface properties such as full-waveform inversion or reflectivity inversion are time-consuming and computationally expensive. We present a deep-learning technique that eliminates the need for these computationally complex methods by posing the problem as one of domain transfer. Our solution is based on a deep convolutional generative adversarial network and dramatically reduces computation time. Training based on two different types of synthetic data produced a neural network that generates realistic velocity models when applied to a real dataset. The system's ability to generalize means it is robust against the inherent occurrence of velocity errors and artifacts in both training and test datasets.

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