Dictionary Learning with Convolutional Structure for Seismic Data Denoising and Interpolation

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of convolutional structured dictionary learning with the LoBCoD algorithm for seismic data denoising and interpolation, demonstrating superior performance over traditional patch-based methods like K-SVD and OMP.

Contribution

The study introduces the application of the convolutional structured (CSC) model with LoBCoD for seismic data, showing improved denoising and interpolation results compared to existing patch-based algorithms.

Findings

LoBCoD outperforms K-SVD and OMP in PSNR and SSIM.

LoBCoD reduces the relative L2-norm of error more effectively.

The CSC model shows significant potential for seismic data processing.

Abstract

Seismic data inevitably suffers from random noise and missing traces in field acquisition. This limits the utilization of seismic data for subsequent imaging or inversion applications. Recently, dictionary learning has gained remarkable success in seismic data denoising and interpolation. Variants of the patch-based learning technique, such as the K-SVD algorithm, have been shown to improve denoising and interpolation performance compared to the analytic transform-based methods. However, patch-based learning algorithms work on overlapping patches of data and do not take the full data into account during reconstruction. By contrast, the data patches (CSC) model treats signals globally and, therefore, has shown superior performance over patch-based methods in several image processing applications. In consequence, we test the use of CSC model for seismic data denoising and interpolation. In particular, we use the local block coordinate descent (LoBCoD) algorithm to reconstruct missing traces and clean seismic data from noisy input. The denoising and interpolation performance of the LoBCoD algorithm has been compared with that of K-SVD and orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithms using synthetic and field data examples. We use three quality measures to test the denoising accuracy: the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), the relative L2-norm of the error (RLNE), and the structural similarity index (SSIM). We find that LoBCoD performs better than K-SVD and OMP for all test cases in improving PSNR and SSIM, and in reducing RLNE. These observations suggest a huge potential of the CSC model in seismic data denoising and interpolation applications.