Physically-Augmented Deep Learning (PADL): Integration of Physical
Context for Improved Seismic Event Discrimination
Abstract
\justifying Deep learning has established itself as the
go-to methodology for automated event discrimination. However, these
methodologies still provide suboptimal performance in many
classification tasks, including the seismic source categorization
problem considered in this article. Here, we develop a novel deep
learning framework that allows for the direct integration of
environmental context, which we refer to as Physically-Augmented Deep
Learning (PADL). Specifically, we augment the learning process by
incorporating seismic velocity models generated from a physics-based
simulator. Our experiments couple real observational waveform data and
synthetic velocity models from the Tularosa Basin region and demonstrate
near-perfect classification accuracy when employing PADL. A robust set
of ablation studies on joint and independent convolutional neural
networks and various combinations of real and simulated input data
confirm the efficacy of our PADL framework.