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Geological Feature Extraction Using Independent Component Analysis

Singh SK

2026

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a resilient and adaptive method for edge detection in seismic images via independent component analysis (ICA). ICA is used on seismic image patches, where the fixed-point FastICA technique is used to learn the basis functions. The majority of these sparse basis functions are used as patterns or template to extract features. Like Gabor wavelet bases, these basis functions are band-limited and confined. The proposed algorithm first transforms a grayscale seismic image into different classes representing edges and background. The edges are extracted by thresholding using sparse components which in turn generates an image into a pattern or feature map. Further, this paper investigates the capabilities of ICA compared with classical methods of edge detection based on seismic images through simulation results.

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