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A deep hybrid network for frequency-aware seismic impedance inversion

Yang Zhang1* Hong Cao2* Zhifang Yang1 Hao Yang1 Qiang Ge1 Yuqi Qiu1 Jiangbei Huang3 Sen Zhao1
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1 Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Beijing , China
2 Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting, Zhuozhou, Hebei , China
3 PetroChina Hangzhou Research Institute of Geology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang , China
Received: 3 July 2026 | Revised: 10 August 2026 | Accepted: 14 August 2026 | Published online: 26 August 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Seismic impedance inversion is a fundamental task in exploration geophysics. With the development of artificial intelligence, deep learning has been increasingly adopted for post-stack seismic impedance inversion. This paper proposes a frequency-aware deep hybrid framework that integrates continuous wavelet transform (CWT) representations, a transformer encoder, and atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) to improve both impedance fidelity and resolution. The CWT provides time–frequency components of seismic traces; the transformer aggregates non-local context to stabilize structural consistency; and ASPP captures local multi-scale features. In addition, we introduce a frequency-aware loss that rebalances optimization toward components that are more difficult to reconstruct, improving detail recovery in thin beds. Network training used a semi-supervised strategy. At well locations, well-log impedance values supervised the network prediction; at non-well locations, synthetic seismic data were generated by seismic forward modeling and compared with the observed seismic records. Validation on the Marmousi II model and a field dataset indicated that the proposed method achieves consistently higher accuracy than representative deep-learning baselines and a commercial post-stack inversion workflow.

Keywords
Seismic inversion
Frequency-aware loss
Deep learning
Funding
This research was funded by the CNPC Science and Technology Major Project (grant nos. 2023ZZ05, 2023ZZ05-05, and 2023ZZ18-03).
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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