Deep Classified Autoencoder for Lithofacies Identification

Lithofacies classification is an indispensable procedure in well logging and seismic data interpretation. We propose a novel deep classified autoencoder learning approach to identify lithofacies for high-dimensional data and complex problems. Deep autoencoder (DAE) is an unsupervised learning method via layerwise pretraining multiple autoencoders. It can learn deep data features automatically and reconstruct the original data with a small error. Introducing sparse constraint (i.e., sparse autoencoder) potentiates the learning ability of autoencoder. On this foundation, additional regularization terms constructed by labeled samples are considered in the new DAE approach in order to boost the performance. The new method can adaptively preserve the most significant input features and remove insensitive properties to decrease computational complexity. At the same time, we embed the class information into the loss function of autoencoder to measure intraclass similarity and improve the classification accuracy. Several experiments on well data and seismic data show that the proposed method achieves promising results. Compared with the traditional deep autoencoder (DAE), the proposed method is more competitive in terms of classification accuracy and robustness.