Regeneration-Constrained Self-Supervised Seismic Data Interpolation

Seismic data interpolation is an indispensable part of seismic data processing. In recent years, deep-learning-based interpolation algorithms for seismic data have become popular due to their high accuracy. However, a considerable amount of work has focused on the migration of concepts and algorithms in deep-learning-based methods while ignoring the implicit properties of seismic data itself. In this article, we propose the regeneration prior, which is an implicit property of seismic data with respect to the interpolation function, and are used for self-supervised seismic data interpolation tasks. In mathematical form, the regeneration prior can be considered as a regular term describing the structure of the seismic data. Theoretically, the regeneration prior is a necessary condition to obtain an optimal interpolation function. Experimentally, the proposed method achieves significant improvement in accuracy and intuitive visualization in comparison with advanced unsupervised or self-supervised methods. In addition, we provide an intuitive interpretation of the regeneration prior, and our study shows that the regeneration prior plays an anti-overfitting structuring role in the parameter learning process of the interpolation function. Finally, we analyze the robustness of the regeneration prior. The experimental results show that the performance of the regeneration prior is stable despite the fact that the hyperparameters associated with the regeneration prior are perturbed in a considerable range.