Deep Learning for Simultaneous Seismic Image Super-Resolution and Denoising

Seismic interpretation is often limited by low resolution and strong noise data. To deal with this issue, we propose to leverage deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to achieve seismic image super-resolution and denoising simultaneously. To train the CNN, we simulate a lot of synthetic seismic images with different resolutions and noise levels to serve as training data sets. To improve the perception quality, we use a loss function that combines the l₁ loss and multiscale structural similarity loss. Extensive experimental results on both synthetic and field seismic images demonstrate that the proposed workflow can significantly improve the perception of quality of original data. Compared to conventional methods, the network obtains better performance in enhancing detailed structural and stratigraphic features, such as thin layers and small-scale faults. From the seismic images super-sampled by our CNN method, a fault detection method can compute more accurate fault maps than from the original seismic images.