Iqbal Naveed
IEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst. 2023 Jul;34(7):3397-3404. doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3205421. Epub 2023 Jul 6.
Noise attenuation is a crucial phase in seismic signal processing. Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of registered seismic signals improves subsequent processing and, eventually, data analysis and interpretation. In this work, a novel noise reduction framework based on an intelligent deep convolutional neural network is proposed that works on segments of the time-frequency domain and, hence named as DeepSeg. The proposed network is efficient in learning sparse representation of the data simultaneously in the time-frequency domain and adaptively capturing seismic signals corrupted with noise. DeepSeg is able to achieve impressive denoising performance even when seismic signal shares common frequency band with noise. The proposed approach properly tackles a variety of correlated (color) and uncorrelated noise, and other nonseismic signals. DeepSeg can boost the SNR considerably even in extremely noisy environments with minimal changes to the signal of interest. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated in enhancing passive seismic event detection/denoising. However, there are other obvious applications of the DeepSeg in active and passive seismic fields, e.g., seismic imaging, preprocessing of ambient noise data, and microseismic event monitoring. It is worth pointing out here that the deep neural network is trained exclusively using synthetic seismic data, negating the need for real data during the training phase. Furthermore, the proposed setup is general and its potential applications are not confined to passive event denoising or even seismic. The method proposed is also adaptable to other diverse signals in different settings, like medical images/signals [magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, electrocardiograms (ECG) signals, and retinal images, to name a few], radar signals, speech signals, fault detection in electrical/mechanical systems, daily life images, etc. Experiments on synthetic and real seismic data reveal the efficacy and supremacy of the proposed method in terms of SNR improvement and required training data when compared to the state-of-the-art deep neural network-based denoising technique.
噪声衰减是地震信号处理中的一个关键阶段。提高已记录地震信号的信噪比(SNR)可改善后续处理,并最终提升数据分析与解释的效果。在这项工作中,提出了一种基于智能深度卷积神经网络的新型降噪框架,该框架作用于时频域的片段,因此被命名为DeepSeg。所提出的网络能够有效地在时频域中同时学习数据的稀疏表示,并自适应地捕获被噪声干扰的地震信号。即使地震信号与噪声共享公共频带,DeepSeg也能够实现令人印象深刻的去噪性能。所提出的方法能够妥善处理各种相关(有色)和不相关噪声以及其他非地震信号。即使在极端嘈杂的环境中,DeepSeg也能在对感兴趣信号的改变最小的情况下大幅提高信噪比。所提出方法的有效性在增强被动地震事件检测/去噪方面得到了证明。然而,DeepSeg在主动和被动地震领域还有其他明显的应用,例如地震成像、环境噪声数据的预处理以及微地震事件监测。在此值得指出的是,深度神经网络仅使用合成地震数据进行训练,在训练阶段无需真实数据。此外,所提出的设置具有通用性,其潜在应用并不局限于被动事件去噪甚至地震领域。所提出的方法还适用于不同场景下的其他各种信号,如医学图像/信号[磁共振成像(MRI)、脑电图(EEG)信号、心电图(ECG)信号以及视网膜图像等仅举几例]、雷达信号、语音信号、电气/机械系统中的故障检测、日常生活图像等。与基于深度神经网络的最新去噪技术相比,对合成和真实地震数据的实验揭示了所提出方法在信噪比提升和所需训练数据方面的有效性和优越性。