CVIVOct 27, 2023

FaultSeg Swin-UNETR: Transformer-Based Self-Supervised Pretraining Model for Fault Recognition

arXiv:2310.17974v2h-index: 4
Originality Incremental advance
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It addresses automated fault recognition in geophysics and geology, which suffers from data dependency and subjectivity, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing transformer and self-supervised methods.

This paper tackles seismic fault recognition by introducing a self-supervised pretraining approach using the Swin Transformer and SimMIM, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the Thebe dataset with OIS and ODS metrics.

This paper introduces an approach to enhance seismic fault recognition through self-supervised pretraining. Seismic fault interpretation holds great significance in the fields of geophysics and geology. However, conventional methods for seismic fault recognition encounter various issues, including dependence on data quality and quantity, as well as susceptibility to interpreter subjectivity. Currently, automated fault recognition methods proposed based on small synthetic datasets experience performance degradation when applied to actual seismic data. To address these challenges, we have introduced the concept of self-supervised learning, utilizing a substantial amount of relatively easily obtainable unlabeled seismic data for pretraining. Specifically, we have employed the Swin Transformer model as the core network and employed the SimMIM pretraining task to capture unique features related to discontinuities in seismic data. During the fine-tuning phase, inspired by edge detection techniques, we have also refined the structure of the Swin-UNETR model, enabling multiscale decoding and fusion for more effective fault detection. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method attains state-of-the-art performance on the Thebe dataset, as measured by the OIS and ODS metrics.

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