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Desert low frequency noise suppression based on multi-level wavelet convolution neural network

HANQING JU1 YUE LI*1 HONGZHOU WANG1 BAOJUN YANG2
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1 Signal and Information Processing, College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P.R. China,
2 Geodetection and Information Technology, College of Geoexploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P.R. China,
JSE 2020, 29(6), 575–586;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
© 2025 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Ju, H.Q., Li, Y., Wang, H.Z. and Yang, B.J., 2020. Desert low frequency noise suppression based on multi-level wavelet convolution neural network. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 29: 575-586. Due to the effect of various environment factors, the random noise in desert seismic exploration has complex characteristics, including low frequency, non-Gaussian and frequency band aliasing of signal and noise. Therefore, it is difficult for the denoising processing. Aiming at this problem, a Multi-level Wavelet Convolution Neural Network (MWCNN) is proposed to suppress the desert noise. MWCNN is a combination of two-dimensional discrete wavelet transformation and convolution neural network. Specifically, Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) and inverse wavelet transformation (IWT) are used to replace the pooling layer and up-convolution of U-net respectively. So that the trade-off between receptive field and computational efficiency can be achieved. Consequently, the expansion of the receptive field can obtain more overall information of the events. In this paper, by adjusting the training set and structure of MWCNN, it is applied to suppress the random noise in desert seismic exploration. Furthermore, compared with other neural networks, MWCNN achieves better better denoising effect and better events’ continuity by enlarging the receptive field in desert seismic records. And experiments on simulated synthetic records and actual seismic records respectively show our trained MWCNN model achieve a satisfactory denoising performance for the random noise in desert seismic exploration.

Keywords
random noise
denoising
convolutional neural network
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