Deep Learning for geophysical images segmentation

This is the post about the work I've done as a research assistant at Stanford. I was lucky to have Tapan Mukerji as my advisor, his guidance helped me to avoid a lot of pitfalls and keep going when I felt stuck. This post is based on my paper. The task I was working on was seismic facies classification with deep learning, and I'd like to start with a high-level overview of why this is a problem worth solving. Seismic data is used to understand the subsurface structure and, ideally, to quantify some properties indicative of where hydrocarbons may be deposited. Figure 1 shows what seismic data may look like.