Regularized deep learning for unsupervised random noise attenuation in poststack seismic data

Abstract

Abstract Deep learning methods achieve excellent noise reduction performances in seismic data processing compared with traditional methods. However, deep learning usually requires a large number of pairwise noisy-clean training data, which is an extremely challenging task. In this paper, an unsupervised approach without clean seismic data is proposed to suppress random noise. Seismic data is divided into odd and even traces, which serve as the input and output of the depth network, so that the proposed algorithm can be trained directly on the original data. What is more, the proposed method introduces two regularization terms to solve the over-smoothing problem caused by reconstruction of adjacent traces. The first term considers an ideal denoising network that does not cause oversmooth as a constraint, while the second term considers the structural information existing in seismic data. Experiments on synthetic post-stack data illustrate that the proposed method obtain a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the comparison methods. In the application of field post-stack seismic data, the proposed method can effectively maintain the seismic amplitude and generate good spectral characteristics.