Deep Recurrent Architectures for Seismic Tomography

TitleDeep Recurrent Architectures for Seismic Tomography
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsAdler, A, Araya-Polo, M, Poggio, T
Conference Name81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2019
Date Published06/2019
Abstract

This paper introduces novel deep recurrent neural network architectures for Velocity Model Building (VMB), which is beyond what Araya-Polo et al 2018 pioneered with the Machine Learning-based seismic tomography built with convolutional non-recurrent neural network. Our investigation includes the utilization of basic recurrent neural network (RNN) cells, as well as Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) cells. Performance evaluation reveals that salt bodies are consistently predicted more accurately by GRU and LSTM-based architectures, as compared to non-recurrent architectures. The results take us a step closer to the final goal of a reliable fully Machine Learning-based tomography from pre-stack data, which when achieved will reduce the VMB turnaround from weeks to days.

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