Convolutional neural networks and seismogram fingerprints as a tool for recognizing the nature of seismic events

Abstract

In the presented article, two facts are convincingly demonstrated based on the results of numerous experiments. Firstly, fingerprints are informative enough representations of signal seismograms, despite their compression, to carry information about the nature of a seismic event. Secondly, the study showed that it is practically possible to design and train an artificial neural network capable of classifying events by origin based on their fingerprints with high accuracy. Fingerprints are a tenthousandfold compressed representation of the original seismogram obtained using the onedimensional wavelet transform and the twodimensional Haar wavelet transform. They carry information about all significant frequencytime phenomena contained in the primary seismogram. Convolutional neural networks were chosen as a class of neural network classifier based on the conducted review of publications on this topic. They have proven themselves to be excellent in recognizing objects and persons in raster images. And the fingerprints used in this study are binary images measuring 64×64 pixels. The convolutional neural network prepared to work with them has one of the simplest architectures for this type of network and a very small number of adjustable parameters. By means of it, the classification accuracy of 95% was easily achieved. To prove that this result is not accidental, a strategy for modeling the architecture of convolutional neural networks using specially developed software, the Trova system, is demonstrated. This software allows the researcher to easily and conveniently operate seismograms, obtain binary fingerprints from them, correctly augment data, create, train and test neural networks. An important feature of the Trova system is the advanced functionality of the graphical representation of multidimensional modeling results.