ContrasInver: Voxel-wise Contrastive Semi-supervised Learning for Seismic Inversion

Recent studies have shown that learning theories have been very successful in hydrocarbon exploration. Inversion of seismic into various attributes through the relationship of 1D well-logs and 3D seismic is an essential step in reservoir description, among which, acoustic impedance is one of the most critical attributes, and although current deep learningbased impedance inversion obtains promising results, it relies on a large number of logs (1D labels, typically more than 30 well-logs are required per inversion), which is unacceptable in many practical explorations. In this work, we define acoustic impedance inversion as a regression task for learning sparse 1D labels from 3D volume data and propose a voxel-wise semisupervised contrastive learning framework, ContrasInver, for regression tasks under sparse labels. ConstraInver consists of several key components, including a novel pre-training method for 3D seismic data inversion, a contrastive semi-supervised strategy for diffusing well-log information to the global, and a continuous-value vectorized characterization method for a contrastive learning-based regression task, and also designed the distance TopK sampling method for improving the training efficiency. We performed a complete ablation study on SEAM Phase I synthetic data to verify the effectiveness of each component and compared our approach with the current mainstream methods on this data, and our approach demonstrated very significant advantages. In this data we achieved an SSIM of 0.92 and an MSE of 0.079 with only four well-logs. ConstraInver is the first purely data-driven approach to invert two classic field data, F3 Netherlands (only four well-logs) and Delft (only three well-logs) and achieves very reasonable and reliable results.

Contrastive Learning Approach for Semi-Supervised Seismic Facies Identification Using High-Confidence Representations

The manual seismic facies annotation relies heavily on the experience of seismic interpreters, and the distribution of seismic facies in adjacent locations is very similar, which means that much of the labeling is costly repetitive work. However, we found that training the model with only a few evenly sampled labeled slices still suffers from severe classification confusion, that is, misidentifying one class of seismic facies as another. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised seismic facies identification method using features from unlabeled data for contrastive learning. We sample features in regions with high identification confidence, and use an pixel-level instance discrimination task to narrow the intra-class distance and increase the inter-class distance. Instance discrimination encourages the latent space to produce more distinguishable decision boundaries and reduces the bias in the features of the same class. Our method only needs to extend one branch to compute the contrastive loss without extensive changes to the network structure. We have conducted experiments on two public seismic surveys, SEAM AI and Netherlands F3, and the proposed model achieves an IOU score of more than 90 using only 1% of the annotations in the F3 survey.