An lp-space Matching Pursuit algorithm and its application to robust seismic data denoising via time-domain Radon transforms
Sparse solutions of linear systems of equations are important in many applications of seismic data processing. These systems arise in many denoising algorithms, such as those that use Radon transforms. We propose a robust Matching Pursuit algorithm for the retrieval of sparse Radon domain coefficients. The algorithm is robust to outliers and, hence, applicable for seismic data deblending. The classical Matching Pursuit algorithm is often adopted to approximate data by a small number of basis functions. It performs effectively for data contaminated with well-behaved, typically Gaussian, random noise.On the other hand, Matching Pursuit tends to identify the wrong basis functions when erratic noise contaminates our data. Incorporating a lp space inner product into the Matching Pursuit algorithm significantly increases its robustness to erratic signals. Our work describes a Robust Matching Pursuit algorithm that includes lp space inner products. We also provide a detailed description of steps required to implement the proposed lp space Robust Matching Pursuit algorithm when the basis functions are not given in an explicit form, such as is the case with the time-domain Radon transform. Finally, we test the proposed algorithm with deblending problems. Both synthetic and field data examples show a significant denoising improvement compared to deblending via the standard Matching Pursuit algorithm.