Fast ground penetrating radar dual-parameter full waveform inversion method accelerated by hybrid compilation of CUDA kernel function and PyTorch
This is an incremental improvement for civil engineering, environmental monitoring, and geophysical exploration, offering a faster and more flexible method for GPR-based subsurface imaging.
The study tackled the problem of slow ground-penetrating radar (GPR) dual-parameter full waveform inversion by proposing a framework accelerated with CUDA and PyTorch, achieving high accuracy and efficiency in subsurface imaging.
This study proposes a high-performance dual-parameter full waveform inversion framework (FWI) for ground-penetrating radar (GPR), accelerated through the hybrid compilation of CUDA kernel functions and PyTorch. The method leverages the computational efficiency of GPU programming while preserving the flexibility and usability of Python-based deep learning frameworks. By integrating customized CUDA kernels into PyTorch's automatic differentiation mechanism, the framework enables accurate and efficient inversion of both dielectric permittivity and electrical conductivity. Experimental evaluations on synthetic data and real wavefield data demonstrate that the proposed method achieves dual-parameter FWI for GPR data while maintaining high accuracy. Moreover, the framework is flexible and extensible, supporting optional regularization strategies such as total variation and multi-scale inversion. These features make the proposed approach a practical and scalable framework for rapid GPR-based subsurface imaging in applications including civil engineering, environmental monitoring, and geophysical exploration.