Probabilistic inversion of seismic data for reservoir petrophysical characterization: Review and examples

D Grana, L Azevedo, L De Figueiredo, P Connolly… - Geophysics, 2022 - library.seg.org
The physics that describes the seismic response of an interval of saturated porous rocks with
known petrophysical properties is relatively well understood and includes rock physics …

Deep Learning for Earthquake Disaster Assessment: Objects, Data, Models, Stages, Challenges, and Opportunities

J Jia, W Ye - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Earthquake Disaster Assessment (EDA) plays a critical role in earthquake disaster
prevention, evacuation, and rescue efforts. Deep learning (DL), which boasts advantages in …

Reliable amortized variational inference with physics-based latent distribution correction

A Siahkoohi, G Rizzuti, R Orozco, FJ Herrmann - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Bayesian inference for high-dimensional inverse problems is computationally costly and
requires selecting a suitable prior distribution. Amortized variational inference addresses …

WISE: Full-waveform variational inference via subsurface extensions

Z Yin, R Orozco, M Louboutin, FJ Herrmann - Geophysics, 2024 - library.seg.org
We introduce a probabilistic technique for full-waveform inversion, using variational
inference and conditional normalizing flows to quantify uncertainty in migration-velocity …

Reweighted variational full-waveform inversions

W Wang, GA McMechan, J Ma - Geophysics, 2023 - library.seg.org
Starting from an initial model and predefined priors, a variational full-waveform inversion
(VFWI) seeks posterior distributions of model parameters via optimization using a Bayesian …

Bayesian inversion, uncertainty analysis and interrogation using boosting variational inference

X Zhao, A Curtis - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Geoscientists use observed data to estimate properties of the Earth's interior. This often
requires non‐linear inverse problems to be solved and uncertainties to be estimated …

Learned multiphysics inversion with differentiable programming and machine learning

M Louboutin, Z Yin, R Orozco, TJ Grady… - The Leading …, 2023 - library.seg.org
Abstract We present the Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling/Monitoring open-
source software framework for computational geophysics and, more generally, inverse …

Physically structured variational inference for Bayesian full waveform inversion

X Zhao, A Curtis - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Full waveform inversion (FWI) creates high resolution models of the Earth's subsurface
structures from seismic waveform data. Due to the non‐linearity and non‐uniqueness of FWI …

Geostatistical inversion for subsurface characterization using Stein variational gradient descent with autoencoder neural network: an application to geologic carbon …

M Liu, D Grana, T Mukerji - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Geophysical subsurface characterization plays a key role in the success of geologic carbon
sequestration (GCS). While deterministic inversion methods are commonly used due to their …

Interrogating subsurface structures using probabilistic tomography: an example assessing the volume of irish sea basins

X Zhao, A Curtis, X Zhang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ultimate goal of a scientific investigation is usually to find answers to specific, often low‐
dimensional questions: what is the size of a subsurface body? Does a hypothesized …