Seismic Inversion by Hybrid Machine Learning

This research was fully funded by the Deep Earth Imaging Future Science Platform, CSIRO. The authors thank Dr. Mehdi Tork Qashqai and Dr. Caroline Johnson for reviewing an earlier version of the manuscript. They would like to thank Dr. Ben Harwood and Dr. Muming Zhao from Data 61, CSIRO for their guidance and insights on convolutional autoencoder. They would like to thank the Center for Subsurface Imaging and Fluid Modeling (CSIM), KAUST for the release of the Aqaba data. They also appreciate the time and efforts of the editor - Prof. Yehuda Ben-Zion, associate editor - Prof. Andrew Curtis, reviewer - Prof. Tariq Alkhalifah and one anonymous reviewer in reviewing this manuscript.