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Efficient seismic numerical modelling technique using the YOLOv2-based expanding domain method

DAWOON LEE1 ,  SEUNGPYO CHOI2 ,  JONGHYUN LEE3 ,  WOOKEEN CHUNG4
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4 Department of Ocean Energy and Resources Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, South Korea.,
2 Department of Convergence Study on the Ocean Science and Technology, Ocean Science and Technology (OST) School, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, South Korea,
3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, U.S.A.,
JSE 2022, 31(5), 425–449;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
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D.W. Lee, S.P. Choi, J.H. Lee and W.K. Chung. Efficient seismic numerical modeling technique using the YOLOv2-based expanding domain method. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 31: 425-449. Wave equation-based seismic modeling has the advantage of simulating the exact full- wave propagation. However, it requires a great amount of computational resources, which becomes prohibitive when both the modeling domain size and the number of the time samples increase. Therefore, much research has been performed to enhance the computational efficiency of seismic numerical modeling. The expanding domain method is such one technique that improves the computational efficiency by identifying the domain extent where the wave propagation has not reached and excluding these domains from the calculation. In this work, we propose a new deep-learning based method that guide the determination of the computational domain. In order to establish the computational domain where the wave propagates from the snapshots. the deep learning-based obiect detection was emploved. The deep learning obiect detector used has two main components. The first one is a structure for the feature extraction layers based on ResNet-50. The second one is a structure for the detection of the wave propagation domain based on the You Only Look Once method, version 2 (YOLOv2). After the training, validation and test for the YOLOv2 obiect detector, the computational efficiency of our proposed method was compared with that of the widely used amplitude comparison-based expanding domain method. It was demonstrated that the computational efficiency of the YOLOv2 method was better when the number of modeling grids was large, and the efficiency in the largest number of grids was about 25.1 %.

Keywords
seismic numerical modeling
computational efficiencv
expanding domain method
deep learning object detection
YOLOv2
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