Title
UB-Net: Improved Seismic Inversion Based on Uncertainty Backpropagation
Abstract
Seismic inversion is aimed at building a mapping from low-resolution seismic data to high-resolution impedance data. Most of the traditional methods have satisfactory interpretability, and most parameters tend to have specific physical definitions. On the other hand, deep learning-based methods present poor interpretability as their prediction performance is not always clearly explainable. One of the significant challenges of deep learning-based methods is to quantify the uncertainty of the model. The uncertainty includes aleatoric uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty, and epistemic uncertainty can be used to evaluate the predicted accuracy of the trained model. In this article, we propose a new deep learning model called uncertainty backpropagation network (UB-Net) to perform impedance inversion. The proposed UB-Net is based on a closed-loop framework and can predict the impedance and the epistemic uncertainty simultaneously. UB-Net has three closed-loop data flows, whereby the predicted uncertainty is utilized as the weight of loss functions to improve the inversion accuracy. Experimental analyses demonstrate that UB-Net presents advanced inversion accuracy on both synthetic and real examples. In particular, the mean absolute error (MAE) on synthetic examples drops by 40%, and the Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) on real examples increases by 2%. Besides, compared with existing approaches, UB-Net presents superior spatial continuity and preserves more geological structures such as little faults in real examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TGRS.2022.3174911
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Uncertainty, Impedance, Convolutional neural networks, Training, Bayes methods, Data models, Predictive models, Closed-loop structure, deep evidential regression, seismic inversion, uncertainty
Journal
60
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0196-2892
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiming Ma100.34
Yuqing Wang201.35
Yile Ao333.19
Qi Wang487057.63
Wenkai Lu52816.27