University of Texas at Austin

Past Event: Oden Institute Seminar

Optimal Transport for Seismic Inversion

Yunan Yang, Department of Mathematics, UT Austin

1 – 2PM
Friday Mar 10, 2017

POB 6.304

Abstract

Optimal transport has become a well developed topic in analysis since it was first proposed by Monge in 1781. Due to their ability to incorporate differences in both intensity and spatial information, the related Wasserstein metrics have been adopted in a variety of applications, including seismic inversion. Quadratic Wasserstein metric (W2) has ideal properties like convexity and insensitivity to noise, while conventional L2 norm is known to suffer from local minima. We propose two ways of using W2 in seismic inversion, a trace-by-trace comparison solved by sorting, and the global comparison which requires numerical solution to Monge-Ampere equation.

Event information

Date
1 – 2PM
Friday Mar 10, 2017
Location POB 6.304
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