Application of optimal transport and the quadratic Wasserstein metric to full-waveform inversion

Y Yang, B Engquist, J Sun, BF Hamfeldt - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
Conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) using the least-squares norm as a misfit function
is known to suffer from cycle-skipping issues that increase the risk of computing a local …

A joint inversion-segmentation approach to assisted seismic interpretation

M Ravasi, C Birnie - Geophysical Journal International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Structural seismic interpretation and quantitative characterization are historically intertwined
processes. The latter provides estimates of the properties of the subsurface, which can be …

High-resolution full waveform seismic imaging: Progresses, challenges, and prospects

D Yang, X Dong, J Huang, Z Fang, X Huang… - Science China Earth …, 2025 - Springer
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method with a unified mathematical
framework based on wave equation constraints. The FWI method can be used to generate a …

Total variation regularization for seismic waveform inversion using an adaptive primal dual hybrid gradient method

P Yong, W Liao, J Huang, Z Li - Inverse Problems, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Full waveform inversion is an effective tool for recovering the properties of the Earth from
seismograms. However, it suffers from local minima caused mainly by the limited accuracy of …

Full-waveform inversion with an exponentially encoded optimal-transport norm

L Qiu, J Ramos-Martínez, A Valenciano… - SEG technical …, 2017 - library.seg.org
Full waveform inversion (FWI) with L 2norm objective function often suffers from cycle
skipping that causes the solution to be trapped in a local minimum, usually far from the true …

Projection methods and applications for seismic nonlinear inverse problems with multiple constraints

B Peters, BR Smithyman, FJ Herrmann - Geophysics, 2019 - library.seg.org
Nonlinear inverse problems are often hampered by local minima because of missing low
frequencies and far offsets in the data, lack of access to good starting models, noise, and …

Misfit function for full waveform inversion based on the Wasserstein metric with dynamic formulation

P Yong, W Liao, J Huang, Z Li, Y Lin - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Conventional full waveform inversion (FWI) using least square distance (L 2 norm) between
the observed and predicted seismograms suffers from local minima. Recently, the …

Reflection-waveform inversion regularized with structure-oriented smoothing shaping

G Yao, NV da Silva, D Wu - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2019 - Springer
Restricted by the limited length of the receiver arrays, estimating the seismic properties of
deep targets requires inverting reflection data. Reflection-waveform inversion (RWI) utilizes …

Source-independent seismic envelope inversion based on the direct envelope Fréchet derivative

P Zhang, RS Wu, L Han - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
Seismic envelope inversion (EI) uses low-frequency envelope data to recover long-
wavelength components of the subsurface media. Conventional EI uses the same waveform …

[HTML][HTML] 基于各向异性全变分约束的多震源弹性波全波形反演

张盼, 韩立国, 巩向博, 孙宏宇, 毛博 - 地球物理学报, 2018 - html.rhhz.net
多震源编码技术可以提高全波形反演的计算效率, 但同时会引入串扰噪声使反演结果质量降低.
全变分约束可以有效地压制层内噪声并突出模型界面, 其与多震源技术的结合 …