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Publications (56)

cs.LG2023

Edge-InversionNet: Enabling Efficient Inference of InversionNet on Edge Devices

Zhepeng Wang, Isaacshubhanand Putla, Weiwen Jiang +1

Seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) is a widely used technique in geophysics for inferring subsurface structures from seismic data. And InversionNet is one of the most successful…

physics.geo-ph2021

Connect the Dots: In Situ 4D Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Storage with Spatio-temporal CNNs

Shihang Feng, Xitong Zhang, Brendt Wohlberg +2

4D seismic imaging has been widely used in CO sequestration projects to monitor the fluid flow in the volumetric subsurface region that is not sampled by wells. Ideally, real-t…

cs.LG2021

On the Robustness and Generalization of Deep Learning Driven Full Waveform Inversion

Chengyuan Deng, Youzuo Lin

The data-driven approach has been demonstrated as a promising technique to solve complicated scientific problems. Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is commonly epitomized as an image-t…

cs.LG2026

Survey of Deep Learning and Physics-Based Approaches in Computational Wave Imaging

Youzuo Lin, Shihang Feng, James Theiler +7

Computational wave imaging (CWI) extracts hidden structure and physical properties of a volume of material by analyzing wave signals that traverse that volume. Applications include…

physics.med-ph2026

OpenPros: A Large-Scale Dataset for Limited View Prostate Ultrasound Computed Tomography

Hanchen Wang, Yixuan Wu, Yinan Feng +11

Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent and deadly cancers among men, motivating the development of accurate and accessible imaging technologies for early detection. Ultrasoun…

cs.LG2017

Cascaded Region-based Densely Connected Network for Event Detection: A Seismic Application

Yue Wu, Youzuo Lin, Zheng Zhou +3

Automatic event detection from time series signals has wide applications, such as abnormal event detection in video surveillance and event detection in geophysical data. Traditiona…

physics.geo-ph2018

Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Mining for Geophysics and Geology

Youzuo Lin, Weichang Li, Alipio Jorge +3

Modern geosciences have to deal with large quantities and a wide variety of data, including 2-D, 3-D and 4-D seismic surveys, well logs generated by sensors, detailed lithological…

cs.LG2023

Fourier-DeepONet: Fourier-enhanced deep operator networks for full waveform inversion with improved accuracy, generalizability, and robustness

Min Zhu, Shihang Feng, Youzuo Lin +1

Full waveform inversion (FWI) infers the subsurface structure information from seismic waveform data by solving a non-convex optimization problem. Data-driven FWI has been increasi…

quant-ph2025

Escaping Barren Plateau: Co-Exploration of Quantum Circuit Parameters and Architectures

Yipei Liu, Yuhong Song, Jinyang Li +4

Barren plateaus (BP), characterized by exponentially vanishing gradients that hinder the training of variational quantum circuits (VQC), present a pervasive and critical challenge…

cs.LG2022

An Intriguing Property of Geophysics Inversion

Yinan Feng, Yinpeng Chen, Shihang Feng +3

Inversion techniques are widely used to reconstruct subsurface physical properties (e.g., velocity, conductivity) from surface-based geophysical measurements (e.g., seismic, electr…

cs.LG2021

InversionNet3D: Efficient and Scalable Learning for 3D Full Waveform Inversion

Qili Zeng, Shihang Feng, Brendt Wohlberg +1

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) techniques aim to find a high-resolution subsurface geophysical model provided with waveform data. Some recent effort in data-driven FWI has s…

physics.geo-ph2024

DeFault: Deep-learning-based Fault Delineation Using the IBDP Passive Seismic Data at the Decatur CO2 Storage Site

Hanchen Wang, Yinpeng Chen, Tariq Alkhalifah +3

The carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) framework is an essential component in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with its success hinging on the comprehensive knowledg…

cs.LG2024

An Empirical Study of Large-Scale Data-Driven Full Waveform Inversion

Peng Jin, Yinan Feng, Shihang Feng +5

This paper investigates the impact of big data on deep learning models to help solve the full waveform inversion (FWI) problem. While it is well known that big data can boost the p…

quant-ph2023

QuGeo: An End-to-end Quantum Learning Framework for Geoscience -- A Case Study on Full-Waveform Inversion

Weiwen Jiang, Youzuo Lin

The rapid advancement of quantum computing has generated considerable anticipation for its transformative potential. However, harnessing its full potential relies on identifying "k…

cs.LG2022

Making Invisible Visible: Data-Driven Seismic Inversion with Spatio-temporally Constrained Data Augmentation

Yuxin Yang, Xitong Zhang, Qiang Guan +1

Deep learning and data-driven approaches have shown great potential in scientific domains. The promise of data-driven techniques relies on the availability of a large volume of hig…

cs.LG2025

A Novel Diffusion Model for Pairwise Geoscience Data Generation with Unbalanced Training Dataset

Junhuan Yang, Yuzhou Zhang, Yi Sheng +2

Recently, the advent of generative AI technologies has made transformational impacts on our daily lives, yet its application in scientific applications remains in its early stages.…

physics.geo-ph2019

A Data-Driven CO2 Leakage Detection Using Seismic Data and Spatial-Temporal Densely Connected Convolutional Neural Networks

Zheng Zhou, Youzuo Lin, Zhongping Zhang +4

In carbon capture and sequestration, developing effective monitoring methods is needed to detect and respond to CO2 leakage. CO2 leakage detection methods rely on geophysical obser…

cs.CV2024

Contextual Hourglass Network for Semantic Segmentation of High Resolution Aerial Imagery

Panfeng Li, Youzuo Lin, Emily Schultz-Fellenz

Semantic segmentation for aerial imagery is a challenging and important problem in remotely sensed imagery analysis. In recent years, with the success of deep learning, various con…

cs.CV2023

Image as First-Order Norm+Linear Autoregression: Unveiling Mathematical Invariance

Yinpeng Chen, Xiyang Dai, Dongdong Chen +4

This paper introduces a novel mathematical property applicable to diverse images, referred to as FINOLA (First-Order Norm+Linear Autoregressive). FINOLA represents each image in th…

cs.CV2024

Exploring Invariance in Images through One-way Wave Equations

Yinpeng Chen, Dongdong Chen, Xiyang Dai +5

In this paper, we empirically reveal an invariance over images-images share a set of one-way wave equations with latent speeds. Each image is uniquely associated with a solution to…

cs.LG2020

Physics-Consistent Data-driven Waveform Inversion with Adaptive Data Augmentation

Renán Rojas-Gómez, Jihyun Yang, Youzuo Lin +2

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear computational imaging technique that can provide detailed estimates of subsurface geophysical properties. Solving the FWI probl…

physics.geo-ph2026

WaveDiffusion: Joint Latent Diffusion for Physically Consistent Seismic and Velocity Generation

Yinan Feng, Hanchen Wang, Yinpeng Chen +5

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a critical technique in subsurface imaging, aiming to reconstruct high-resolution subsurface properties from surface measurements. Acoustic FWI inv…

physics.geo-ph2022

Extremely Weak Supervision Inversion of Multi-physical Properties

Shihang Feng, Peng Jin, Xitong Zhang +4

Multi-physical inversion plays a critical role in geophysics. It has been widely used to infer various physical properties~(such as velocity and conductivity). Among those inversio…

physics.space-ph2021

PreMevE Update: Forecasting Ultra-relativistic Electrons inside Earth's Outer Radiation Belt

Saurabh Sinha, Yue Chen, Youzuo Lin +1

Energetic electrons inside Earth's outer Van Allen belt pose a major radiation threat to space-borne electronics that often play vital roles in our modern society. Ultra-relativist…

eess.SP2019

Data-driven Seismic Waveform Inversion: A Study on the Robustness and Generalization

Zhongping Zhang, Youzuo Lin

Acoustic- and elastic-waveform inversion is an important and widely used method to reconstruct subsurface velocity image. Waveform inversion is a typical non-linear and ill-posed i…

cs.CV2025

BrainPuzzle: Hybrid Physics and Data-Driven Reconstruction for Transcranial Ultrasound Tomography

Shengyu Chen, Shihang Feng, Yi Luo +2

Ultrasound brain imaging remains challenging due to the large difference in sound speed between the skull and brain tissues and the difficulty of coupling large probes to the skull…

physics.geo-ph2018

Spatial-Temporal Densely Connected Convolutional Networks: An Application to CO2 Leakage Detection

Zheng Zhou, Youzuo Lin, Yue Wu +3

In carbon capture and sequestration, building an effective monitoring method is a crucial step to detect and respond to CO2 leakage. CO2 leakage detection methods rely on geophysic…

cs.LG2026

RED-DiffEq: Regularization by denoising diffusion models for solving inverse PDE problems with application to full waveform inversion

Siming Shan, Min Zhu, Youzuo Lin +1

Partial differential equation (PDE)-governed inverse problems are fundamental across various scientific and engineering applications; yet they face significant challenges due to no…

physics.space-ph2024

PreMevE-MEO: Predicting Ultra-relativistic Electrons Using Observations from GPS Satellites

Yinan Feng, Yue Chen, Youzuo Lin

Ultra-relativistic electrons with energies greater than or equal to two megaelectron-volt (MeV) pose a major radiation threat to spaceborne electronics, and thus specifying those h…

cs.LG2026

Improving Full Waveform Inversion in Large Model Era

Yinan Feng, Peng Jin, Yuzhe Guo +2

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a highly nonlinear and ill-posed problem that aims to recover subsurface velocity maps from surface-recorded seismic waveforms data. Existing data-…

quant-ph2022

Quantum Neural Network Compression

Zhirui Hu, Peiyan Dong, Zhepeng Wang +3

Model compression, such as pruning and quantization, has been widely applied to optimize neural networks on resource-limited classical devices. Recently, there are growing interest…

eess.IV2024

APS-USCT: Ultrasound Computed Tomography on Sparse Data via AI-Physic Synergy

Yi Sheng, Hanchen Wang, Yipei Liu +4

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is a promising technique that achieves superior medical imaging reconstruction resolution by fully leveraging waveform information, outperform…

cs.LG2024

A Physics-guided Generative AI Toolkit for Geophysical Monitoring

Junhuan Yang, Hanchen Wang, Yi Sheng +2

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) plays a vital role in geoscience to explore the subsurface. It utilizes the seismic wave to image the subsurface velocity map. As the machine learning…

physics.geo-ph2023

: Multi-parameter Benchmark Datasets for Elastic Full Waveform Inversion of Geophysical Properties

Shihang Feng, Hanchen Wang, Chengyuan Deng +6

Elastic geophysical properties (such as P- and S-wave velocities) are of great importance to various subsurface applications like CO sequestration and energy exploration (e.g.,…

cs.LG2023

OpenFWI: Large-Scale Multi-Structural Benchmark Datasets for Seismic Full Waveform Inversion

Chengyuan Deng, Shihang Feng, Hanchen Wang +6

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is widely used in geophysics to reconstruct high-resolution velocity maps from seismic data. The recent success of data-driven FWI methods results in…

physics.geo-ph2024

Auto-Linear Phenomenon in Subsurface Imaging

Yinan Feng, Yinpeng Chen, Peng Jin +3

Subsurface imaging involves solving full waveform inversion (FWI) to predict geophysical properties from measurements. This problem can be reframed as an image-to-image translation…

quant-ph2023

Battle Against Fluctuating Quantum Noise: Compression-Aided Framework to Enable Robust Quantum Neural Network

Zhirui Hu, Youzuo Lin, Qiang Guan +1

Recently, we have been witnessing the scale-up of superconducting quantum computers; however, the noise of quantum bits (qubits) is still an obstacle for real-world applications to…

eess.SP2019

InversionNet: A Real-Time and Accurate Full Waveform Inversion with CNNs and continuous CRFs

Yue Wu, Youzuo Lin

Full-waveform inversion problems are usually formulated as optimization problems, where the forward-wave propagation operator maps the subsurface velocity structures to seismic…

cs.LG2024

On a Hidden Property in Computational Imaging

Yinan Feng, Yinpeng Chen, Yueh Lee +1

Computational imaging plays a vital role in various scientific and medical applications, such as Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), Computed Tomography (CT), and Electromagnetic (EM) i…

physics.geo-ph2022

Enhanced prediction accuracy with uncertainty quantification in monitoring CO2 sequestration using convolutional neural networks

Yanhua Liu, Xitong Zhang, Ilya Tsvankin +1

Monitoring changes inside a reservoir in real time is crucial for the success of CO2 injection and long-term storage. Machine learning (ML) is well-suited for real-time CO2 monitor…

cs.LG2020

SeismoGen: Seismic Waveform Synthesis Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Tiantong Wang, Daniel Trugman, Youzuo Lin

Detecting earthquake events from seismic time series has proved itself a challenging task. Manual detection can be expensive and tedious due to the intensive labor and large scale…

cs.LG2023

Solving Seismic Wave Equations on Variable Velocity Models with Fourier Neural Operator

Bian Li, Hanchen Wang, Shihang Feng +2

In the study of subsurface seismic imaging, solving the acoustic wave equation is a pivotal component in existing models. The advancement of deep learning enables solving partial d…

cs.CV2022

Self-Supervised Learning based on Heat Equation

Yinpeng Chen, Xiyang Dai, Dongdong Chen +4

This paper presents a new perspective of self-supervised learning based on extending heat equation into high dimensional feature space. In particular, we remove time dependence by…

cs.LG2025

A Unified Framework for Forward and Inverse Problems in Subsurface Imaging using Latent Space Translations

Naveen Gupta, Medha Sawhney, Arka Daw +2

In subsurface imaging, learning the mapping from velocity maps to seismic waveforms (forward problem) and waveforms to velocity (inverse problem) is important for several applicati…

physics.geo-ph2023

Multiscale Data-driven Seismic Full-waveform Inversion with Field Data Study

Shihang Feng, Youzuo Lin, Brendt Wohlberg

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI), which uses iterative methods to estimate high-resolution subsurface models from seismograms, is a powerful imaging technique in exploration g…

cs.CE2023

HOSSnet: an Efficient Physics-Guided Neural Network for Simulating Crack Propagation

Shengyu Chen, Shihang Feng, Yao Huang +4

Hybrid Optimization Software Suite (HOSS), which is a combined finite-discrete element method (FDEM), is one of the advanced approaches to simulating high-fidelity fracture and fra…

eess.IV2025

Learned Correction Methods for Ultrasound Computed Tomography Imaging Using Simplified Physics Models

Luke Lozenski, Hanchen Wang, Fu Li +4

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging modality for breast imaging. Image reconstruction methods that incorporate accurate wave physics produce high resolution quanti…

cs.LG2018

Deep Learning Approach in Automatic Iceberg - Ship Detection with SAR Remote Sensing Data

Cheng Zhan, Licheng Zhang, Zhenzhen Zhong +5

Deep Learning is gaining traction with geophysics community to understand subsurface structures, such as fault detection or salt body in seismic data. This study describes using de…

cs.LG2017

Efficient Data-Driven Geologic Feature Detection from Pre-stack Seismic Measurements using Randomized Machine-Learning Algorithm

Youzuo Lin, Shusen Wang, Jayaraman Thiagarajan +2

Conventional seismic techniques for detecting the subsurface geologic features are challenged by limited data coverage, computational inefficiency, and subjective human factors. We…

physics.geo-ph2019

Earthquake Detection in 1-D Time Series Data with Feature Selection and Dictionary Learning

Zheng Zhou, Youzuo Lin, Zhongping Zhang +2

Earthquakes can be detected by matching spatial patterns or phase properties from 1-D seismic waves. Current earthquake detection methods, such as waveform correlation and template…

cs.LG2022

Unsupervised Learning of Full-Waveform Inversion: Connecting CNN and Partial Differential Equation in a Loop

Peng Jin, Xitong Zhang, Yinpeng Chen +3

This paper investigates unsupervised learning of Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), which has been widely used in geophysics to estimate subsurface velocity maps from seismic data. Thi…

eess.IV2026

MUX-USCT: A Noise-Robust Neural Network for Ultrasound Computed Tomography

Yuchen Yuan, Hanhan Wu, Jinyang Li +4

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown strong potential for ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) reconstruction in ideal noise-free environments, yet existing DNNs are vulnerable…

eess.IV2023

Learned Full Waveform Inversion Incorporating Task Information for Ultrasound Computed Tomography

Luke Lozenski, Hanchen Wang, Fu Li +4

Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is an emerging imaging modality that holds great promise for breast imaging. Full-waveform inversion (FWI)-based image reconstruction methods…

cs.LG2026

Two Teachers Better Than One: Hardware-Physics Co-Guided Distributed Scientific Machine Learning

Yuchen Yuan, Junhuan Yang, Hao Wan +4

Scientific machine learning (SciML) is increasingly applied to in-field processing, controlling, and monitoring; however, wide-area sensing, real-time demands, and strict energy an…

physics.space-ph2019

Forecasting Megaelectron-Volt Electrons inside Earth's Outer Radiation Belt: PreMevE 2.0 Based on Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms

Rafael Pires de Lima, Yue Chen, Youzuo Lin

Here we present the recent progress in upgrading a predictive model for Megaelectron-Volt (MeV) electrons inside the Earth's outer Van Allen belt. This updated model, called PreMev…

eess.SP2018

Seismic-Net: A Deep Densely Connected Neural Network to Detect Seismic Events

Yue Wu, Youzuo Lin, Zheng Zhou +1

One of the risks of large-scale geologic carbon sequestration is the potential migration of fluids out of the storage formations. Accurate and fast detection of this fluids migrati…