The University of British Columbia

Journal publications:

• 1. Tristan van Leeuwen, Aleksandr Aravkin, and Felix J. Herrmann. Seismic waveform inversion by stochastic optimization. 2011. International Journal of Geophysics. Volumem 2011, ID 689041, 2011.
  2. F. J. Herrmann. Randomized sampling and sparsity: getting more information from fewer samples. Geophysics 75, WB173-187 (2010).
  3. G. Hennenfent, L. Fenelon, and F. J. Herrmann. Nonequispaced curvelet transform for seismic data reconstruction: a sparsity-promoting approach. Geophysics 75, WB203-210 (2010), DOI:10.1190/1.3494032
  4. V. Kumar, J. Oueity, R. Clowes, and F. J. Herrmann. Enhancing Crustal Reflection Data through Curvelet Denoising. Technophysics. In Press, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2010.07.01, 2010.
  5. F. J. Herrmann, Y. Erlangga, and T. T. Y. Lin. Compressive simultaneous full-waveform simulation. Geophysics 74, A35, 2009.
  6. F. J. Herrmann, C. R. Brown, Y. A. Erlangga, P. P. Moghaddam. Curvelet-based migration preconditioning and scaling. Geophysics 74, A41, 2009.
  7. E. van den Berg, M. P. Friedlander, G. Hennenfent, F. J. Herrmann, R. Saab, O. Yılmaz. Sparco: a testing framework for sparse reconstruction. To appear in ACM Trans. on Math. Soft, 2008.
  8. D. Wang, R. Saab, O. Yilmaz and F J. Herrmann. Bayesian wavefield separation by transform-domain sparsity promotion. Geophysics, Vol 73, No. 5, A33-A38, 2008.
  9. G. Hennenfent, E. van den Berg, M. P. Friedlander, and F. J. Herrmann. New insights into one-norm solvers from the Pareto curve. Geophysics, Vol. 73, No. 4, 2008.
  10. Herrmann, F. J., Wang, D and Verschuur, D. J. Adaptive curvelet-domain primary-multiple separation. Geophysics, Vol 73, No. 3, pp. A17-A21, 2008.
  11. Herrmann, F. J. and Hennenfent, G. Non-parametric seismic data recovery with curvelet frames, Geop. J. Int., Vol. 173, No. 1, pp. 233-248, 2008.
  12. Hennefent, G. and Herrmann, F. J. Simply denoise: wavefield reconstruction via jittered under-sampling. Geophysics, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. V19–V28, 2008.
  13. Herrmann, F. J., Wang, D., Hennenfent, G. and Moghaddam, P. Curvelet-based seismic data processing: a multiscale and nonlinear approach. Geophysics, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. A1–A5, 2008.
  14. Herrmann, F. J., Wang, D., Hennenfent, G. and Moghaddam, P. Curvelet-based seismic data processing: a multiscale and nonlinear approach. Geophysics, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. A1-A5, January-February 2008.
  15. Herrmann, F. J., Moghaddam, P. and Stolk, C. Sparsity- and continuity-promoting seismic image recovery with curvelet frames. App. & Comp. Harm. Analys., Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 150-173, 2008.
  16. Herrmann, F. J., and Boeniger, U and Verschuur, D.J. Nonlinear primary-multiple separation with directional curvelet frames. Geop. J. Int., 170, 781–799. 2007.
  17. Lin, T. and Herrmann, F. J., Compressed wavefield extrapolation. Geophysics, vol. 72, 5, SM77-SM93, 2007.
  18. Hennenfent, G and Herrmann, F. J., Seismic Denoising with Nonuniformly Sampled Curvelets. Comp. in Sc. & Eng., vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 16-25, 2006.
  19. Herrmann, F. J., Seismic deconvolution by atomic decomposition: a parametric approach with sparseness constraints. Integr. Comp.-Aided Eng. 12: 69-90. 2005. 
  20. Tavares, D.M., Lucena, L. S., Schots, H. A., Mundim, E. C., and Herrmann, F. J. The deconvolution of seismic data as a fluctuation analysis. Integr. Computer-Aided Eng.12: 25-42. 2005.
  21. Bernabé, Y., Mok, U., Evans, B., and Herrmann, F. J. Permeability and storativity of binary mixtures of high- and low-porosity materials. J. Geop. Res. 109, B12207. 2004.
  22. Herrmann, F. J. and Bernabé, Y. Seismic singularities at upper mantle discontinuities: a site percolation model. Geop. J. Int., 159: 949-960, 2004.
  23. Herrmann, F. J. Singularity characterization by monoscale analysis: application to seismic imaging. Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 11: 64–88. 2001.
  24. Herrmann, F. J., Lyons, W., and Stark, C. Seismic facies characterization by monoscale analysis. Geophys. Res. Lett, 28(19): 3781–3784. 2001.
  25. Wapenaar, C. P. A. and Herrmann, F. J. True-amplitude migration taking fine-layering into account. Geophysics, 61(3): 795–803, May-June 1996.
  26. Wapenaar, C.P.A., Slot R. and Herrmann, F. J. Towards and extended macro model that takes fine-layering into account. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 3: 245-260, 1994.
  Refereed conference proceedings:
  1. Tim Lin and Felix J. Herrmann, Robust source signature deconvolution and the estimation of primaries by sparse inversion. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), San Antonio, 2011.
  2. Bander Jumah and Felix J. Herrmann. Dimensionality-reduced estimation of primaries by sparse inversion. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), San Antonio, 2011.
  3. Tristan van Leeuwen and Felix J. Herrmann. Probing the extended image volume. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), San Antonio, 2011.
  4. Ning Tu, Tim T.Y. Lin, and Felix J. Herrmann. Migration with surface-related multiples from incomplete seismic data. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), San Antonio, 2011.
  5. Haneet Wason, Felix J. Herrmann, and Tim T.Y. Lin. Sparsity-promoting recovery from simultaneous data: a compressive sensing approach. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), San Antonio, 2011.
  6. Aleksandr Aravkin, Tristan van Leeuwen and Felix J. Herrmann. Robust full-waveform inversion using the Student's t-distribution. SEG 2011, San Antonio.Xiang Li, Aleksandr Aravkin, Tristan van Leeuwen, Felix J. Herrmann, Modified Gauss-Newton with Sparse Updates. In the proceedings of the Brazilian Geophysical  Society Meeting (SBGf), Rio de Janeiro,  2011.
  7. Hassan Mansour, Haneet Wason, Tim Lin and Felix J. Herrmann. A compressive sensing perspective on simultaneous marine acquisition. In the proceedings of the Brazilian Geophysical  Society Meeting (SBGf), Rio de Janeiro,  2011.
  8. Tim T.Y. Lin, F. J. Herrmann. Estimating primaries by sparse inversion in a curvelet-like representation domain. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Vienna, 2011.
  9. Ning Tu, Tim T.Y. Lin, F. J. Herrmann. Sparsity-promoting migration with surface-related multiples. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Vienna, 2011.
  10. Xiang Li, Aleksandr Aravkin, Tristan van Leeuwen, F. J.  Herrmann. Full-waveform inversion with randomized L1 recovery for the model updates In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Vienna, 2011.
  11. Tristan van Leeuwen, Mark Schmidt, Michael Friedlander and F. J. Herrmann. A hybrid stochastic-deterministic optimization method for waveform inversion. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Vienna, 2011.
  12. F. J. Herrmann and Xiang Li. Efficient least-squares migration with sparsity promotion In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Vienna, 2011.Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Tristan van Leeuwen, James V. Burke, F. J. Herrmann. A Nonlinear Sparsity Promoting Formulation and Algorithm for Full Waveform Inversion. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), Vienna, 2011.Tim T.Y. Lin, Ning Tu, and F. J. Herrmann. Sparsity-promoting migration from surface-related multiples. SEG 2010, Denver.
  13. Peyman P. Moghaddam and F. J. Herrmann. Randomized full-waveform inversion: a dimenstionality-reduction approach. SEG 2010, Denver.
  14. Xiang Li and F. J.Herrmann. Full-waveform inversion from compressively recovered updates. SEG 2010, Denver
  15. F. J. Herrmann, Sub-Nyquist sampling and sparsity: getting more information from fewer samples. Plenary session SEG “Recent advances and the road ahead”.
  16. Gang Tang, Reza Shahidi, F. J. Herrmann, and Jianwei Ma, Higher dimensional blue-noise sampling schemes for curvelet-based seismic data recovery, SEG, 2009.
  17. Jiupeng Yan and F. J. Herrmann, Groundroll prediction by interferometry and separation by curvelet-domain matched filtering, SEG, 2009.
  18. Vishal Kumar and F. J. Herrmann, Incoherent noise suppression with curvelet-domain sparsity, SEG, 2009.
  19. Yogi A. Erlangga and F. J. Herrmann, Seismic waveform inversion with Gauss-Newton-Krylov method, SEG, 2009.
  20. Reza Shahidi and F. J. Herrmann, Curvelet-domain matched filtering with frequency-domain regularization, SEG, 2009.
  21. Tim T.Y. Lin, F. J. Herrmann, Unified compressive sensing framework for simultaneous acquisition with primary estimation, SEG, 2009.
  22. F. J. Herrmann, Tim T.Y. Lin, Yogi A. Erlangga, Compressive simultaneous full-waveform simulation, SEG, 2009.
  23. F. J. Herrmann, Compressive imaging by wavefield inversion with group sparsity, SEG, 2009.
  24. F. J. Herrmann, Reflector-preserved lithological upscaling, SEG, 2009, Houston.
  25. Tim T.Y. Lin and Felix J. Herrmann, Designing simultaneous acquisitions with compressive sensing. Amsterdam, 2009, EAGE.
  26. Felix J. Herrmann, Yogi A. Erlangga, Tim T.Y. Lin, Compressive sensing applied to full-waveform inversion. , Amsterdam, 2009, EAGE.
  27. Yogi A. Erlangga and Felix J. Herrmann. Migration with implicit solvers for the time-harmonic Helmholtz equation.
  28. Carson Yarham and F. J. Herrmann. Bayesian ground-roll separation by curvelet-domain sparsity promotion. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  29. F. J. Herrmann and Deli Wang. Seismic wavefield inversion with curvelet-domain sparsity promotion. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  30. Mohammad Maysami and F. J. Herrmann. Lithological constraints from seismic waveforms: application to the opal-A to opal-CT transition. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  31. Peyman P. Moghaddam, Cody Brown and F. J. Herrmann. Curvelet-based migration preconditioning In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  32. Robert A. Eso, Scott Napier, F. J. Herrmann and Douglas W. Oldenburg. Iterative reconstruction algorithm for non-linear operators. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  33. Tim T.Y. Lin, Evgeniy Lebed, Yogi A. Erlangga and F. J. Herrmann. Interpolating solutions of the Helmholtz equation with compressed sensing. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  34. Vishal Kumar and F. J. Herrmann. Deconvolution with curvelet-domain sparsity. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  35. Yogi A. Erlangga and F. J. Herrmann. An iterative multilevel method for computing wavefields in frequency-domain seismic inversion. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), Las Vegas, 2008.
  36. Hennenfent, G. and Herrmann, F. J. Random sampling: new insights into the reconstruction of coarsely-sampled wavefields. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  37. Herrmann, F. J., Wang, D., Hennenfent, G. and Moghaddam, P. Seismic data processing with curvelets: a multiscale and nonlinear approach. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  38. Herrmann, F. J., Wang, D. and Gilles Hennenfent., G. Multiple prediction from incomplete data with the focused curvelet transform. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  39. Saab, R., Wang, D., Yılmaz, O. and Herrmann, F. J. Curvelet-based primary-multiple separation from a Bayesian perspective. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  40. Verschuur, D. J., Wang, D. and Herrmann, F. J. Multi-term multiple prediction using separated reflections and diffractions combined with curvelet-based subtraction. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  41. Wang, D., Saab, R, Yilmaz, O., Herrmann, F. J. Recent results in curvelet-based primary-multiple separation: application to real data. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  42. Lin, T. and Herrmann, F. J. Compressed wavefield extrapolation with curvelets. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  43. Moghaddam, P., Herrmann, F. J. and Stollk, C. C. Robust seismic amplitude recovery using curvelets. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2007.
  44. Moghaddam, P, Herrmann, F. J. and Stolk, C. Seismic amplitude recovery with curvelets. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2007.
  45. Hennenfent, G. and Herrmann, F. J. Irregular sampling: from aliasing to noise. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  46. Challa, S., Hennenfent, G. and Herrmann, F. J. Signal reconstruction from incomplete and misplaced measurements. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  47. Herrmann, F. J. Surface related multiple predication from incomplete data. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  48. Herrmann, F. J., G. Hennenfent, G. and Moghaddam, P. Seismic imaging and processing with curvelets. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  49. Maysami, M. and Herrmann, F. J. Seismic reflector characterization by a multiscale detection-estimation method. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  50. Moghaddam, P. and Stolk, C. C. and Herrmann, F. J. Sparsity and Continuity Enhancing Seismic Imaging. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  51. Hennenfent, G. and Herrmann, F. J., Curvelet reconstruction with sparsity-promoting inversion: successes and challenges. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2007.
  52. Hennenfent, G. and Herrmann. F.J . Application of stable signal recovery to seismic data interpolation. In Expanded Abstracts, In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2006.
  53. Carson, Y., Boeniger B. and Herrmann, F.J. Curvelet-based ground roll removal In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2006
  54. Thomson, D., Hennenfent, G., Modzelewski H. and Herrmann, F.J. A parallel windowed fast discrete curvelet transform applied to seismic processing. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2006.
  55. Hennenfent, G., Herrmann, F. J., Sparseness-constrained data continuation with frames: Applications to missing traces and aliased signals in 2/3-D. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2005.
  56. Beyreuther, M., Cristall, J. and Herrmann, F. J. Computation of time-lapse differences with 3D directional frames. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2005.
  57. Hennenfent, G., Herrmann, F. J., and Neelamani, R. Seismic deconvolution revisited with curvelet frames. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2005.
  58. Herrmann, F. J., Moghaddam, P., and Kirlin, R. Optimization strategies for sparseness- and continuity- enhanced imaging: Theory. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2005.
  59. Herrmann, F. J. Robust curvelet-domain data continuation with sparseness constraints. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2005.
  60. Herrmann, F. J. and Verschuur, D. J. Robust curvelet-domain primary-multiple separation with sparseness constraints. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2005.
  61. Herrmann, F. J. and Hennenfent, G. Non-linear data continuation with redundant frames. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2005.
  62. Herrmann, F. J. and Moghaddam, P. Non-linear regularization in seismic imaging. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2005.
  63. Hennenfent, G., Herrmann, F. J., and Neelamani, R. Sparseness-constrained seismic deconvolution with Curvelets. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2005.
  64. Herrmann, F. J .and Moghaddam, P. Curvelet-domain preconditioned "wave-equation" depth-migration with sparseness & illumination constraints In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2004.
  65. Herrmann, F. J. and Moghaddam, P. Curvelet-based non-linear adaptive subtraction with sparseness constraints. In Expanded Abstracts, SEG.Tulsa, 2004.
  66. Hennenfent, G. and Herrmann, F. J. Three-term amplitude-versus-offset (avo) Inversion revisited by curvelet and wavelet transform. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2004.
  67. Moghaddam, P and Herrmann, F. J. Migration preconditioning with curvelets. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2004.
  68. Herrmann, F. J. and Verschuur, D.J. Curvelet-domain multiple elimination with sparseness constraints. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), 2004.
  69. Beyreuther, M. Cristall, J. and Herrmann, F. J. Curvelet denoising of 4d seismic. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2004.
  70. Herrmann, F. J. and Moghaddam, P. Curvelet-domain least-squares migration with sparseness constraints. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2004.
  71. Herrmann, F. J. and Verschuur, D.J. Separation of primaries and multiples by non-linear estimation in the curvelet domain. In the proceedings of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2004.
  72. Herrmann, F. J. Curvelet imaging and processing: an overview. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2004.
  73. Herrmann, F. J. and Moghaddam, P. Curvelet imaging and processing: sparseness-constrained least-squares migration. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2004.
  74. Herrmann, F. J. and Verschuur, D.J. Curvelet imaging and processing: adaptive multiple elimination. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2004.
  75. Beyreuther, M. Cristall, J. and Herrmann, F. J. Curvelet imaging and processing: 4d adaptive subtraction. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2004.
  76. Carson, Y., Trad, D., and Herrmann, F. J. Curvelet processing and imaging: adaptive ground roll removal. In the proceedings of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG), 2004.
  77. Herrmann, F. J. Optimal seismic imaging with curvelets. In the proceedings of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and Annual Meeting (SEG), p. 997-2000, 2003.
  78. Herrmann, F. J.. Multifractional splines: application to seismic imaging. In Andrew F. Laine; Eds. Michael A. Unser, Akram Aldroubi, editor, Proceedings of SPIE Technical Conference on Wavelets: Applications in Signal and Image Processing X, volume 5207, pages 240-258. SPIE, 2003.
  79. Billings, S. and Herrmann, F. J. Automatic detection of position and depth of potential uxo using a continuous wavelet transform. In Proceedings of SPIE Technical Conference Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets, 2003.