Low-frequency swell noise suppression based on U-Net*
Zhang Rui-qi 1, Song Peng 1,2,3, Liu Bao-hua 4, Zhang Xiao-bo 4, Tan Jun 1,2,3, Zou Zhi-hui 1,2,3,Xie Chuang 1, and Wang Shao-wen 1
1. College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China.
2. Laboratory for MMR, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266100, China.
3. Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience and Prospecting Techniques, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China.
4. National Deep Sea Center, Qingdao 266237, China.
Abstract Low-frequency band-shaped swell noise with strong amplitude is common in marine seismic data. The conventional high-pass filtering algorithm widely used to suppress swell noise often results in serious damage of effective information. This paper introduces the residual learning strategy of denoising convolutional neural network (DnCNN) into a U-shaped convolutional neural network (U-Net) to develop a new U-Net with more generalization, which can eliminate low-frequency swell noise with high precision. The results of both model date tests and real data processing show that the new U-Net is capable of efficient learning and high-precision noise removal, and can avoid the overfitting problem which is very common in conventional neural network methods. This new U-Net can also be generalized to some extent and can effectively preserve low-frequency effective information. Compared with the conventional high-pass filtering method commonly used in the industry, the new U-Net can eliminate low-frequency swell noise with higher precision while effectively preserving low-frequency effective information, which is of great significance for subsequent processing such as amplitude-preserving imaging and full waveform inversion.
This work was supported by the Key R&D project of Shandong Province (No. 2019JZZY010803), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 201964016), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41704114), the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (No. 2016ZX05027-002), Taishan Scholar Project Funding (No.tspd20161007) and the China Scholarship Council (No. 201906335010).
Corresponding Authors: Song Peng (Email: pengs@ouc.edu.cn)
E-mail: pengs@ouc.edu.cn
About author: Zhang Rui-qi graduated from Xi’an Shiyou University with a bachelor’s degree in Marine Oil and Gas Engineering in 2017. He was a master’s student in the School of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, and mainly engaged in artificial intelligence-based seismic data noise attenuation research and its application. Mailing address: Email: zhangrq997622@163.com
Cite this article:
. Low-frequency swell noise suppression based on U-Net*[J]. APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 2020, 17(3): 419-431.
2020, Vol. 17 
