Salt Detection Using Segmentation of Seismic Image

Abstract: In this project, a state-of-the-art deep convolution neural network (DCNN) is presented to segment seismic images for salt detection below the earth's surface. Detection of salt location is very important for starting mining. Hence, a seismic image is used to detect the exact salt location under the earth's surface. However, precisely detecting the exact location of salt deposits is difficult. Therefore, professional seismic imaging still requires expert human interpretation of salt bodies. This leads to very subjective, highly variable renderings. Hence, to create the most accurate seismic images and 3D renderings, we need a robust algorithm that automatically and accurately identifies if a surface target is a salt or not. Since the performance of DCNN is well-known and well-established for object recognition in images, DCNN is a very good choice for this particular problem and being successfully applied to a dataset of seismic images in which each pixel is labeled as salt or not. The result of this algorithm is promising.