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most citedSeismic tomography using variational inference methods

83 citations · 261 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.geo-ph2025

3D Bayesian Variational Surface Wave Tomography and Application to the Southwest China

Wenda Yang, Xin Zhang

Seismic surface wave tomography uses surface wave information to obtain velocity structures in the subsurface. Due to data noise and nonlinearity of the problem, surface wave tomog…

physics.geo-ph2023★ 7 cited

VIP -- Variational Inversion Package with example implementations of Bayesian tomographic imaging

Xin Zhang, Andrew Curtis

Bayesian inference has become an important tool to solve inverse problems and to quantify uncertainties in their solutions. Variational inference is a method that provides probabil…

physics.geo-ph2023★ 1 cited

Bayesian Variational Time-lapse Full-waveform Inversion

Xin Zhang, Andrew Curtis

Time-lapse seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) provides estimates of dynamic changes in the subsurface by performing multiple seismic surveys at different times. Since FWI proble…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 78 cited

3D Bayesian Variational Full Waveform Inversion

Xin Zhang, Angus Lomas, Muhong Zhou +2

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) provides high resolution images of the subsurface by exploiting information in the recorded seismic waveforms. This is achieved by solving a h…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 31 cited

An introduction to variational inference in Geophysical inverse problems

Xin Zhang, Muhammad Atif Nawaz, Xuebin Zhao +1

In a variety of scientific applications we wish to characterize a physical system using measurements or observations. This often requires us to solve an inverse problem, which usua…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 11 cited

Surface wave dispersion inversion using an energy likelihood function

Xin Zhang, York Zheng, Andrew Curtis

Seismic surface wave dispersion inversion is used widely to study the subsurface structure of the Earth. The dispersion property is usually measured by using frequency-phase veloci…

physics.geo-ph2021★ 2 cited

Interrogating probabilistic inversion results for subsurface structural information

Xin Zhang, Andrew Curtis

The goal of a scientific investigation is to find answers to specific questions. In geosciences this is typically achieved by solving an inference or inverse problem and interpreti…

physics.geo-ph2021★ 1 cited

Bayesian Full-waveform Inversion with Realistic Priors

Xin Zhang, Andrew Curtis

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) uses full seismic records to estimate subsurface velocity structure. This requires a highly nonlinear and nonunique inverse problem to be solv…

physics.geo-ph2019★ 83 cited

Seismic tomography using variational inference methods

Xin Zhang, Andrew Curtis

Seismic tomography is a methodology to image the interior of solid or fluid media, and is often used to map properties in the subsurface of the Earth. In order to better interpret…

physics.geo-ph2019★ 47 cited

Probabilistic Neural Network Tomography across Grane field (North Sea) from Surface Wave Dispersion Data

Stephanie Earp, Andrew Curtis, Xin Zhang +1

Surface wave tomography uses measured dispersion properties of surface waves to infer the spatial distribution of subsurface properties such as shear-wave velocities. These propert…