Title
Horizon Picking Using Two-Branch Network With Spatial and Time-Frequency Features
Abstract
In seismic interpretation, horizon picking is a very essential but time-consuming and challenging task. Most existing auto-picking algorithms have been proposed to improve the horizon interpretation efficiency. Recently, deep learning approaches have shown promising performance in horizon identification. However, feeding directly seismic time series or images into a deep learning network only uses the amplitude information of seismic signal, which limits the classification accuracy. In this letter, we propose to learn more distinctive characteristics in the time-frequency domain from the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) coefficients. More importantly, we develop a novel two-branch convolutional neural network (TB-CNN) for horizon picking: a CWT branch can mine the time-frequency features in 2-D CWT coefficients of seismic time series. At the same time, a spatial branch further explores the local spatial features in seismic images. The features of the two branches are then fused to perform classification. The output is the class scores of voxels being horizon or background. Finally, we extract the horizon surface by finding all voxels with the highest score values of the horizon class in the vertical temporal direction. We conduct experiments on both synthetic and field data. The results show that the proposed method can effectively fuse the spatial features and time-frequency features to yield higher performance than the traditional 3-D auto-tracking method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LGRS.2021.3118685
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Continuous wavelet transforms, Time-frequency analysis, Convolutional neural networks, Feature extraction, Training, Three-dimensional displays, Time series analysis, Continuous wavelet transform (CWT), horizon picking, two-branch convolutional neural network (TB-CNN)
Journal
19
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1545-598X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaofang Liao100.34
Junxing Cao203.38
Ya-Juan Xue301.01
Jiachun You401.01
Ming Cheng533947.21