@conference {witte2019SIAMCSEclsmft,
	title = {Compressive least squares migration with on-the-fly Fourier transforms},
	booktitle = {SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering},
	year = {2019},
	note = {(SIAM CSE)},
	month = {03},
	abstract = {Least-squares seismic imaging is an inversion-based approach for accurately imaging the earth{\textquoteright}s subsurface. However, in the time-domain, the computational cost and memory requirements of this approach scale with the size and recording length of the seismic experiment, thus making this approach often prohibitively expensive in practice. To overcome these issues, we borrow ideas from compressive sensing and signal processing and introduce an algorithm for sparsity-promoting seismic imaging using on-the-fly Fourier transforms. By computing gradients and functions values for random subsets of source locations and frequencies, we considerably limit the number of wave equation solves, while on-the-fly Fourier transforms allow computing an arbitrary number of monochromatic frequency-domain wavefields with a time-domain modeling code and without having to solve large-scale Helmholtz equations. The memory requirements of this approach are independent of the number of time steps and solely depend on the number of frequencies, which determine the amount of crosstalk and subsampling artifacts in the image. We show the application of our approach to several large-scale open source data sets and compare the results to a conventional time-domain approach with optimal checkpointing.},
	keywords = {Fourier, Imaging, least-squares, migration, on-the-fly},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/SIAMCSE/2019/witte2019SIAMCSEclsmft/witte2019SIAMCSEclsmft.pdf},
	author = {Philipp A. Witte and Mathias Louboutin and Fabio Luporini and Gerard J. Gorman and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@techreport {witte2017TRcls,
	title = {Compressive least-squares migration with source estimation},
	number = {TR-EOAS-2017-3},
	year = {2017},
	institution = {UBC},
	abstract = {Least-squares reverse-time migration is a powerful approach for true-amplitude seismic imaging of complex geological structures. The successful application of this method is hindered by its exceedingly large computational cost and required prior knowledge of the generally unknown source wavelet. We address these problems by introducing an algorithm for low-cost sparsity-promoting least-squares migration with source estimation. We adapt a recent algorithm from sparse optimization, which allows to work with randomized subsets of shots during each iteration of least-squares migration, while still converging to an artifact-free solution. We modify the algorithm to incorporate on-the-fly source estimation through variable projection, which lets us estimate the wavelet without additional PDE solves. The algorithm is easy to implement and allows imaging at a fraction of the cost of conventional least squares reverse-time migration, requiring only around two passes trough the data, making the method feasible for large-scale imaging problems with unknown source wavelets.},
	keywords = {LSRTM, migration, source estimation, sparsity, time domain},
	url = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/TechReport/2017/witte2017TRcls/witte2017TRcls.html},
	author = {Philipp A. Witte and Mengmeng Yang and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
@conference {witte2015IIPFWIspl,
	title = {Sparsity-promoting least-square migration with linearized Bregman and compressive sensing},
	booktitle = {Inaugural Full-Waveform Inversion Workshop},
	year = {2015},
	note = {(Natal, Brazil)},
	month = {08-09},
	abstract = {We present a novel adaptation of a recently developed relatively simple iterative algorithm to solve large-scale sparsity-promoting optimization problems. Our algorithm is particularly suitable to large-scale geophysical inversion problems, such as sparse least-squares reverse-time migration or Kirchoff migration since it allows for a tradeoff between parallel computations, memory allocation, and turnaround times, by working on subsets of the data with different sizes. Comparison of the proposed method for sparse least-squares imaging shows a performance that rivals and even exceeds the performance of state-of-the art one-norm solvers that are able to carry out least-squares migration at the cost of a single migration with all data.},
	keywords = {Bregman, compressed sensing, FWI, migration, sparsity promotion, time domain},
	presentation = {https://slim.gatech.edu/Publications/Public/Conferences/IIPFWI/witte2015IIPFWIspl/witte2015IIPFWIspl_pres.pdf},
	author = {Philipp A. Witte and Ning Tu and Ernie Esser and Mengmeng Yang and Mathias Louboutin and Felix J. Herrmann}
}
