International Business Machines Corporation

Michael Raghib Moreno

Vagner Figueredo De Santana

Renato Fontoura De Gusmao Cerqueira

Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto

Matthias Kormaksson

Emilio Ashton Vital Brazil

Viviane Torres Da Silva

Rodrigo Da Silva Ferreira

A method for identifying seismic horizons in digitized seismic images includes deploying a swarm of agents at an initial position in a seismic image to be analyzed, where the swarm of agents includes picking agents that define a direction for the swarm and averaging agents that smooth the direction of the swarm, identifying a direction to follow in the seismic image for each picking agent, and advancing each picking agent in the identified direction, and averaging, by the averaging agents, the directions identified by the picking agents, wherein if an information concentration measured by a picking agent at a current time step is greater than a previous time step, the picking agent keeps a previous direction, otherwise the picking agent changes direction according to the average current state of the set of averaging agents within its neighborhood.

Unsupervised identification of seismic horizons using swarms of cooperating agents

A method is provided, the method including: displaying an image on a display; detect a user input corresponding to one or more portions of the image; analyzing the user input to determine at least one feature vector corresponding to the user input; and determining a classification for the one or more portions of the image based at least on the at least one feature vector.

Steering seismic texture analysis algorithms using expert input

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