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Record W7116728550 · doi:10.1007/s12145-025-02062-x

Physically driven feature engineering for deep learning applications in seismo-volcanic signal analysis

2025· article· en· W7116728550 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEarth Science Informatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSeismology and Earthquake Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
KeywordsFeature engineeringFeature (linguistics)Deep learningFeature learningFocus (optics)Joint (building)Event (particle physics)SIGNAL (programming language)Reliability (semiconductor)Signal processing

Abstract

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Abstract The progressive growth of seismological databases has motivated the exploration of novel methodologies for common tasks such as detection and phase-picking, with a focus on maintaining reliability comparable to human performance. This goal consistently involves leveraging deep learning techniques, which emulate sensory processing in the human brain through numerical simulations. This study introduces a physically driven feature engineering approach that capitalizes on the inherent information within seismic data. While many contemporary studies train their models via robust raw datasets, practical alternatives tailored for smaller databases are often overlooked. Feature engineering in seismological contexts aims to develop deep learning models with tangible physical significance, specifically those that target event detection and phase-picking tasks across both local and regional seismic environments. Our approach leverages physically driven feature transformations for the joint detection and phase-picking task. This includes incorporating the energy signal envelope for effective seismic event classification, using amplitude spectra from signals filtered at predefined frequency bands, and calculating spatial features (such as wave incidence and azimuth) for accurate phase-picking. This integrated feature set optimizes model performance, especially when dealing with small volcanic seismology datasets. The proposed joint methodology is particularly pertinent in seismo-volcanic contexts, where accurate discrimination and characterization of seismic signals are pivotal for monitoring and risk assessment purposes. The incorporation of significant physical information from seismic signals into pattern recognition is crucial, as many feature engineering applications lack a contextual understanding of the data, which can lead to distortions, particularly within geophysical domains. Our results demonstrate human-level performance in these common tasks, harnessing the capabilities of statistical learning algorithms as a practical, resource-efficient solution for addressing these challenges on a large scale.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.859
Threshold uncertainty score0.440

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it