Sergey Fomel

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1. 
   Data-driven analysis of seismic phase using circular statistics

   Article • The Leading Edge, September 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel, Akshika Rohatgi

2. 
   Improving fluid-induced time-lapse seismic monitoring using local orthogonalization

   Article • Geophysics, August 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel

3. 
   HCTNet: Robust prestack seismic inversion using a hybrid convolutional transformer

   Article • Geophysics, June 2025, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Wanli Cheng, Sergey Fomel

4. 
   Streaming prediction-error filters

   Article • Geophysics, May 2024, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel

5. 
   Protecting the weak signals in distributed acoustic sensing data processing using local orthogonalization: the FORGE data example

   Article • Geophysics, November 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel, Yapo Abole Serge Innocent Oboue

6. 
   Deep learning with soft attention mechanism for small-scale ground roll attenuation

   Article • Geophysics, September 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Wanli Cheng, Sergey Fomel

7. 
   Streaming seismic attributes

   Article • Geophysics, September 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel

8. 
   SLKNet: An attention-based deep-learning framework for downhole distributed acoustic sensing data denoising

   Article • Geophysics, September 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel, Wanli Cheng

9. 
   Deep-learning-based 3D fault detection for carbon capture and storage

   Article • Geophysics, July 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

   Sergey Fomel

10. 
    Denoising distributed acoustic sensing data using unsupervised deep learning

    Article • Geophysics, July 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Wanli Cheng

11. 
    Enhancing earthquake detection from distributed acoustic sensing data by coherency measure and moving-rank-reduction filtering

    Article • Geophysics, June 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Omar M. Saad

12. 
    3D true-amplitude elastic wave-vector decomposition in heterogeneous anisotropic media

    Article • Geophysics, January 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

13. 
    A deep learning framework for seismic facies classification

    Article • Interpretation, January 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Nam Pham

14. 
    Advances in mathematical geophysics — Introduction

    Article • Geophysics, January 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Yike Liu

15. 
    Unsupervised deep learning for 3D interpolation of highly incomplete data

    Article • Geophysics, December 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Omar M. Saad, Sergey Fomel

16. 
    Denoising of distributed acoustic sensing data using supervised deep learning

    Article • Geophysics, October 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Omar M. Saad, Wanli Cheng

17. 
    Porosity and permeability prediction using transformer and periodic long short-term network

    Article • Geophysics, October 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Omar M. Saad

18. 
    Automated hyper-parameter optimization for simulating boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave propagation using deep learning

    Article • Geophysics, October 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Nam Pham, Sergey Fomel

19. 
    Joint deblending and source time inversion

    Article • Geophysics, August 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

20. 
    Semisupervised salt segmentation using mean teacher

    Article • Interpretation, May 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

21. 
    Special section introduction: Automated approaches to interpretation

    Article • Interpretation, April 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Mr William L Abriel, Mauricio Araya-Polo, Sergey Fomel

22. 
    A variational approach for picking optimal surfaces from semblance-like panels

    Article • Geophysics, April 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

23. 
    Time-lapse seismic data inversion for estimating reservoir parameters using deep learning

    Article • Interpretation, January 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

24. 
    A Matlab code package for 2D/3D local slope estimation and structural filtering

    Article • Geophysics, January 2022, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Omar M. Saad, Yapo Abole Serge Innocent Oboue, Sergey Fomel

25. 
    Uncertainty and interpretability analysis of encoder-decoder architecture for channel detection

    Article • Geophysics, July 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Nam Pham, Sergey Fomel

26. 
    5D de-aliased seismic data interpolation using non-stationary prediction error filter

    Article • Geophysics, June 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

27. 
    Non-stationary local signal-and-noise orthogonalization

    Article • Geophysics, May 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

28. 
    Wave-equation time migration

    Article • Geophysics, January 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

29. 
    Interactively tracking seismic geobodies with a deep-learning flood-filling network

    Article • Geophysics, December 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Dr xinming Wu

30. 
    Least-squares diffraction imaging using shaping regularization by anisotropic smoothing

    Article • Geophysics, June 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

31. 
    Improving the resolution of migrated images by approximating the inverse Hessian using deep learning

    Article • Geophysics, June 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Nam Pham, Sergey Fomel

32. 
    Waveform embedding: Automatic horizon picking with unsupervised deep learning

    Article • Geophysics, May 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

33. 
    Deep learning for relative geologic time and seismic horizons

    Article • Geophysics, April 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

34. 
    Relative time seislet transform

    Article • Geophysics, February 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

35. 
    Building realistic structure models to train convolutional neural networks for seismic structural interpretation

    Article • Geophysics, January 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Nam Pham, Sergey Fomel, Guillaume Caumon

36. 
    Probabilistic moveout analysis by time warping

    Article • Geophysics, January 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

37. 
    SaltSeg: Automatic 3D salt segmentation using a deep convolutional neural network

    Article • Interpretation, May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Dr xinming Wu

38. 
    Least-squares path-summation diffraction imaging using sparsity constraints

    Article • Geophysics, May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

39. 
    FaultSeg3D: Using synthetic data sets to train an end-to-end convolutional neural network for 3D seismic fault segmentation

    Article • Geophysics, May 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Dr Luming Liang, Dr xinming Wu

40. 
    Automatic channel detection using deep learning

    Article • Interpretation, April 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Nam Pham, Sergey Fomel

41. 
    Missing log data interpolation and semiautomatic seismic well ties using data matching techniques

    Article • Interpretation, March 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

42. 
    Generalized velocity approximation

    Article • Geophysics, January 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

43. 
    Automatic fault interpretation with optimal surface voting

    Article • Geophysics, September 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

44. 
    Least-squares horizons with local slopes and multigrid correlations

    Article • Geophysics, July 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Dr xinming Wu

45. 
    Incremental correlation of multiple well logs following geologically optimal neighbors

    Article • Interpretation, June 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Prof. Fangyu Li

46. 
    Fast salt boundary interpretation with optimal path picking

    Article • Geophysics, May 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Michael Hudec, Dr xinming Wu

47. 
    Fast time-to-depth conversion and interval velocity estimation in the case of weak lateral variations

    Article • Geophysics, May 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

48. 
    Predictive painting across faults

    Article • Interpretation, April 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Dr xinming Wu

49. 
    Matching and merging high-resolution and legacy seismic images

    Article • Geophysics, March 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

50. 
    EMD-seislet transform

    Article • Geophysics, January 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

51. 
    Accelerating full-waveform inversion with attenuation compensation

    Article • Geophysics, January 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

52. 
    Plane-wave Sobel attribute for discontinuity enhancement in seismic images

    Article • Geophysics, November 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Mason Phillips

53. 
    Reproducible research: Geophysics papers of the future — Introduction

    Article • Geophysics, November 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

54. 
    Full-waveform inversion using seislet regularization

    Article • Geophysics, September 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Hejun Zhu, Sergey Fomel

55. 
    Creating detailed subsurface models using predictive image-guided well-log interpolation

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

56. 
    Introduction to special section: Computer-assisted seismic interpretation methods

    Article • Interpretation, August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, David Johnston

57. 
    3D generalized nonhyperboloidal moveout approximation

    Article • Geophysics, March 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Yanadet Sripanich

58. 
    Diffraction imaging and time-migration velocity analysis using oriented velocity continuation

    Article • Geophysics, March 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

59. 
    Analytical path-summation imaging of seismic diffractions

    Article • Geophysics, January 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

60. 
    Building good starting models for full-waveform inversion using adaptive matching filtering misfit

    Article • Geophysics, September 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Hejun Zhu, Sergey Fomel

61. 
    A Bayesian approach to estimate uncertainty for full-waveform inversion using a priori information from depth migration

    Article • Geophysics, September 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Hejun Zhu, Sergey Fomel

62. 
    Theory of interval traveltime parameter estimation in layered anisotropic media

    Article • Geophysics, September 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Yanadet Sripanich

63. 
    Q-compensated least-squares reverse time migration using low-rank one-step wave extrapolation

    Article • Geophysics, July 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

64. 
    Double-sparsity dictionary for seismic noise attenuation

    Article • Geophysics, March 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

65. 
    Seismic imaging of incomplete data and simultaneous-source data using least-squares reverse time migration with shaping regularization

    Article • Geophysics, January 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

66. 
    Low-rank one-step wave extrapolation for reverse time migration

    Article • Geophysics, January 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

67. 
    Random noise attenuation using local signal-and-noise orthogonalization

    Article • Geophysics, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

68. 
    Signal and noise separation in prestack seismic data using velocity-dependent seislet transform

    Article • Geophysics, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

69. 
    Taking signal and noise to new dimensions — Introduction

    Article • Geophysics, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

70. 
    Predictive coherence

    Article • Interpretation, November 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

71. 
    Viscoacoustic modeling and imaging using low-rank approximation

    Article • Geophysics, September 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

72. 
    On anelliptic approximations for qP velocities in transversely isotropic and orthorhombic media

    Article • Geophysics, September 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Yanadet Sripanich

73. 
    Introduction to special section: Thin beds

    Article • Interpretation, August 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Kurt J Marfurt, Sergey Fomel, Gregory Partyka, Osareni Ogiesoba

74. 
    Seismic diffraction interpretation at Piceance Creek

    Article • Interpretation, February 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr. Alexander Klokov, Sergey Fomel

75. 
    Carbonate reservoir characterization using seismic diffraction imaging

    Article • Interpretation, February 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Xavier Janson

76. 
    Introduction to special section: Diffraction imaging

    Article • Interpretation, February 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

77. 
    Iterative deblending of simultaneous-source seismic data using seislet-domain shaping regularization

    Article • Geophysics, September 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

78. 
    Fast algorithms for elastic-wave-mode separation and vector decomposition using low-rank approximation for anisotropic media

    Article • Geophysics, July 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr. Jiubing Cheng, Sergey Fomel

79. 
    Automatic approaches for seismic to well tying

    Article • Interpretation, May 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Dr Roberto Henry Herrera

80. 
    Lowrank seismic-wave extrapolation on a staggered grid

    Article • Geophysics, May 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Gang Fang

81. 
    Local skewness attribute as a seismic phase detector

    Article • Interpretation, February 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

82. 
    Time-lapse seismic data registration and inversion for CO2 sequestration study at Cranfield

    Article • Geophysics, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

83. 
    Selecting an optimal aperture in Kirchhoff migration using dip-angle images

    Article • Geophysics, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr. Alexander Klokov, Sergey Fomel

84. 
    Seismic data decomposition into spectral components using regularized nonstationary autoregression

    Article • Geophysics, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

85. 
    First-break traveltime tomography with the double-square-root eikonal equation

    Article • Geophysics, November 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

86. 
    Omnidirectional plane-wave destruction

    Article • Geophysics, September 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Zhonghuan Chen

87. 
    Automated spectral recomposition with application in stratigraphic interpretation

    Article • Interpretation, August 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Hongliu Zeng, Sergey Fomel

88. 
    Kirchhoff migration using eikonal-based computation of traveltime source derivatives

    Article • Geophysics, July 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

89. 
    A fast butterfly algorithm for generalized Radon transforms

    Article • Geophysics, July 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

90. 
    Automatic traveltime picking using instantaneous traveltime

    Article • Geophysics, March 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

91. 
    Accelerated plane-wave destruction

    Article • Geophysics, January 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel, Zhonghuan Chen

92. 
    Separation and imaging of seismic diffractions using migrated dip-angle gathers

    Article • Geophysics, November 2012, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr. Alexander Klokov, Sergey Fomel

93. 
    Generalized nonelliptic moveout approximation in τ-p domain

    Article • Geophysics, March 2012, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

94. 
    Time‐migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation

    Article • Geophysics, September 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

95. 
    Velocity continuation and the anatomy of residual prestack time migration

    Article • Geophysics, September 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

96. 
    Angle‐domain common‐image gathers by wavefield continuation methods

    Article • Geophysics, May 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

97. 
    Asymptotic pseudounitary stacking operators

    Article • Geophysics, May 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

98. 
    Multidimensional recursive filter preconditioning in geophysical estimation problems

    Article • Geophysics, March 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

99. 
    Seismic reflection data interpolation with differential offset and shot continuation

    Article • Geophysics, March 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Sergey Fomel

100. 
     Theory of differential offset continuation

     Article • Geophysics, March 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

     Sergey Fomel