Characterization of migrated seismic volumes using texture attributes: a comparative study
This study provides the seismic interpretation community with alternative texture analysis techniques for seismic exploration, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to a new domain.
The paper compared several texture attributes from image processing for characterizing migrated seismic volumes, evaluating them based on retrieval accuracy within an image retrieval framework.
In this paper, we examine several typical texture attributes developed in the image processing community in recent years with respect to their capability of characterizing a migrated seismic volume. These attributes are generated in either frequency or space domain, including steerable pyramid, curvelet, local binary pattern, and local radius index. The comparative study is performed within an image retrieval framework. We evaluate these attributes in terms of retrieval accuracy. It is our hope that this comparative study will help acquaint the seismic interpretation community with the many available powerful image texture analysis techniques, providing more alternative attributes for their seismic exploration.