Transformer For Low-frequency Extrapolating of Seismic Data

TL;DR

This paper introduces LFET, a transformer-based neural network designed to accurately extrapolate low-frequency seismic signals from band-limited data, improving seismic inversion accuracy.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel transformer architecture for seismic low-frequency extrapolation, leveraging multi-head self-attention and shifted window partitioning for better performance and efficiency.

Findings

LFET outperforms traditional CNN methods in accuracy.

The method generalizes well across different models and field data.

It achieves lower computational costs while maintaining high accuracy.

Abstract

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is used to reconstruct the physical properties of subsurface media which plays an important role in seismic exploration. However, the precision of FWI is seriously affected by the absence or inaccuracy of low-frequency information. Therefore, reconstructing the low-frequency signals accurately is highly significant in seismic data processing. Low-frequency extrapolation of seismic records can be approached as a deep learning regression problem. Thus, to obtain low-frequency information from band-limited seismic records, a novel network structure called low-frequency extrapolation transformer (LFET) is proposed to construct the nonlinear mapping relationship between the data missing low-frequency and low-frequency data in a supervised learning approach, which is inspired by the transformer model widely used in natural language processing (NLP). We apply multi-head self-attention (MSA) modules to model the remote dependencies of seismic data. Based on this, we introduce a shifted window partitioning approach to reduce the calculating amount. Due to the field data are not suitable for supervised learning, we generate synthetic seismic records using submodels selected from the benchmark Marmousi model as training data whose characteristics are similar to that of the field data. A single trace of synthetic band-limited seismic data in the time domain is used as the input data, and the parameters of LFET are updated based on the errors between the predicted trace and the corresponding label. The experimental results on the data generated by different models, different wavelets, and different kinds of field marine data demonstrate the feasibility and generalization of the proposed method. Furthermore, the proposed method achieves higher accuracy with lower computational expense than the traditional CNN method.