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Main Authors: Zeng, Yunlin, Erdinc, Huseyin Tuna, Orozco, Rafael, Herrmann, Felix
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15289
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author Zeng, Yunlin
Erdinc, Huseyin Tuna
Orozco, Rafael
Herrmann, Felix
author_facet Zeng, Yunlin
Erdinc, Huseyin Tuna
Orozco, Rafael
Herrmann, Felix
contents Accurate seismic imaging and velocity estimation are essential for subsurface characterization. Conventional inversion techniques, such as full-waveform inversion, remain computationally expensive and sensitive to initial velocity models. To address these challenges, we propose a simulation-based inference framework with conditional elucidated diffusion models for posterior velocity-model sampling. Our approach incorporates both horizontal and vertical subsurface offset common-image gathers to capture a broader range of reflector geometries, including gently dipping structures and steep dipping layers. Additionally, we introduce the background-velocity model as an input condition to enhance generalization across varying geological settings. We evaluate our method on the SEAM dataset, which features complex salt geometries, using a patch-based training approach. Experimental results demonstrate that adding the background-velocity model as an additional conditioning variable significantly enhances performance, improving SSIM from $0.717$ to $0.733$ and reducing RMSE from $0.381\,$km/s to $0.274\,$km/s. Furthermore, uncertainty quantification analysis shows that our proposed approach yields better-calibrated uncertainty estimates, reducing uncertainty calibration error from $6.68\,$km/s to $3.91\,$km/s. These results show robust amortized seismic inversion with uncertainty quantification.
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spellingShingle Full-waveform variational inference with full common-image gathers and diffusion network
Zeng, Yunlin
Erdinc, Huseyin Tuna
Orozco, Rafael
Herrmann, Felix
Geophysics
Accurate seismic imaging and velocity estimation are essential for subsurface characterization. Conventional inversion techniques, such as full-waveform inversion, remain computationally expensive and sensitive to initial velocity models. To address these challenges, we propose a simulation-based inference framework with conditional elucidated diffusion models for posterior velocity-model sampling. Our approach incorporates both horizontal and vertical subsurface offset common-image gathers to capture a broader range of reflector geometries, including gently dipping structures and steep dipping layers. Additionally, we introduce the background-velocity model as an input condition to enhance generalization across varying geological settings. We evaluate our method on the SEAM dataset, which features complex salt geometries, using a patch-based training approach. Experimental results demonstrate that adding the background-velocity model as an additional conditioning variable significantly enhances performance, improving SSIM from $0.717$ to $0.733$ and reducing RMSE from $0.381\,$km/s to $0.274\,$km/s. Furthermore, uncertainty quantification analysis shows that our proposed approach yields better-calibrated uncertainty estimates, reducing uncertainty calibration error from $6.68\,$km/s to $3.91\,$km/s. These results show robust amortized seismic inversion with uncertainty quantification.
title Full-waveform variational inference with full common-image gathers and diffusion network
topic Geophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15289