Wei Qiao

Wei Qiao


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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10 December 2025 in Frontiers in Earth Science
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WQWei Qiao
Wei Qiao
JHJiuzhan Hu
Jiuzhan Hu
BLBenbin Li
Benbin Li
JBJing Bian
Jing Bian
YLYongyi Li
Yongyi Li
YZYujie Zhang
Yujie Zhang
Seismic inversion is vital for reservoir characterization but faces significant challenges in complex fluvial-deltaic systems due to strong heterogeneity and thin-bedded formations. Current methods, including convolution-based, geostatistical, and artificial neural network (ANN) approaches, are often limited by wavelet stationarity assumptions, spatial uncertainty, and physical implausibility. This study develops a novel artificial intelligence (AI) seismic inversion algorithm that integrates a convolutional physical model with data-driven learning to overcome these drawbacks. The proposed physics-guided hybrid model employs a multi-wavelet inversion framework, incorporating 8–10 spatially variable wavelets per inversion cell to account for lateral wavelet variability. These physically constrained inversion candidates are then intelligently fused using a computationally efficient neural network, which maintains a 3.4% training error and 4.7% validation accuracy. This integrated approach achieves remarkable improvements: a 30% enhancement in vertical resolution enabling 1–3m thin-bed detection, a 40% improvement in lateral continuity (with correlation coefficients increasing from 0.85), and 70% better noise suppression. Application in a complex fluvial-deltaic system covering 7.2 km 2 with 80 wells confirmed the method’s robustness, delivering over 80% accuracy in sandbody prediction while significantly reducing geologically implausible results.