Publications

This section presents a comprehensive list of publications resulting from our research activities, including articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference and workshop abstracts. These works reflect the scientific rigor and intellectual contributions of our team, disseminating findings to the broader academic and professional communities. Each entry includes a link to full texts or publisher pages.

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2025

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Exploring the Velocity-Spreading Factor and its Consequences Through Dynamic Ray-Tracing in General Anisotropic Media

Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot
and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior

Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

2024

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Quantifying anisotropy parameters in weakly anisotropic media through diffraction traveltime parameter clustersTiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot, Alexandre W. Camargo and Jorge H. Faccipieri JuniorBrazilian Journal of Geophysics
Hybrid GDS-Cache Approach to Boost IO throughput in 3D Seismic ProcessingCaian Benedicto, Nicholas T. Okita, Fabio Bronzati, João Paulo Navarro and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior85th EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Ultra-fast diffraction separation in the five-dimensional domainNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior85th EAGE Conference & Exhibition

2023

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Ultra-fast traveltime parameters search by a coevolutionary optimization approach using graphics processing unitsJosé Ribeiro Neto, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Jorge H. Faccipieri JuniorarXiv: Geophysics
Exploring velocity-spreading factor and consequences through dynamic ray-tracing in general anisotropic media: A comprehensive tutorialTiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot and Jorge H. Faccipieri JuniorarXiv: Geophysics
Comparisons between FO-CRS and OCT stacking operators by quality measuresTiago A. A. Coimbra, Nicholas T. Okita and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior18th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Time-lapse analysis using the wave-equation time migrationAlexandre W. Camargo, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior18th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Study of anisotropy characterization in weakly anisotropic VTI media through diffraction traveltime parameter clustersTiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior18th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society

2022

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Increasing IO throughput in seismic with NFS over RDMA and NVIDIA GPUDirect StorageCaian Benedicto, Nicholas Torres Okita and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior3rd EAGE Workshop on HPC in Americas

2021

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Offset-continuation-trajectory (OCT) data regularization to a 2D ocean bottom node (OBN): Full-wave inversion applicationAlexandre W. Camargo, José Ribeiro Neto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Gustavo B. Ignácio Dias and Martin TygelRevista Brasileira de Geofísica
High-performance computing strategies for seismic-imaging software on the cluster and cloud-computing environmentsNicholas T. Okita, Alexandre W. Camargo, José Ribeiro Neto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Caian Benedicto and Jorge H. Faccipieri JuniorGeophysical Prospecting
Cloud-computing approach for an environmental, social, and corporate governance focus in universities and businessesNicholas T. Okita and Tiago A. A. CoimbraFirst Break
Faster and cheaper: How graphics processing units on spot-market instances minimize turnaround time and budgetNicholas T. Okita and Tiago A. A. CoimbraInterpretation
Using adaptive differential evolution algorithm to improve parameter estimation in seismic processing: extended resultsJosé Ribeiro Neto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Nicholas T. Okita, Gustavo B. Ignácio Dias and Martin TygelRevista Brasileira de Geofísica
Recovering elevation in seismic datasets using Google Earth: A case study of Parnaíba BasinDany R. Serrano, Tainá Souza, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin TygelFirst Break

2020

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Extending the usage of graphics processing units on the cloud for cost savings on seismic data regularizationNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, José Ribeiro and Martin TygelRevista Brasileira de Geofísica
Time-migration velocity estimation using Fréchet derivatives based on nonlinear kinematic migration/demigration solversHao Zhao, Anders U. Waldeland, Dany Rueda Serrano, Martin Tygel and Einar IversenStudia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Fault-tolerant wave propagation assisted by independent checkpointing strategyAlexandre W. Camargo, Nicholas T. Okita, José Ribeiro, Caian Benedicto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin Tygel82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Highly scalable full-waveform inversion on the cloud using graphics processing unitsNicholas T. Okita, Alexandre W. Camargo, José Ribeiro, Caian Benedicto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin Tygel82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Boundary saving and checkpointing: a hybrid memory strategy for reverse time migrationJosé Ribeiro, Nicholas T. Okita, Alexandre W. Camargo, Caian Benedicto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin Tygel82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition

2019

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Stretch-free generalized normal moveout correctionJorge H. Faccipieri Junior, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Rodrigo BlootGeophysical Prospecting
Fast estimation of pre-stack Common Reflection Surface parametersAnders U. Waldeland, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior, Anne H. Schistad Solberg and Leiv-J. GeliusGeophysical Prospecting
3D Pre-stack Fourier Mixed-Domain (FMD) depth migration for VTI media with large lateral contrastsHao Zhao, Leiv-J. Gelius, Martin Tygel, E. Harris Nilsen and A. Kjelsrud EvensenJournal of Applied Geophysics
A Two-Phase Approach for Full Waveform Inversion using Constrained OptimizationAlexandre W. Camargo and Lucio Santos16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Full-wave inversion (FWI) to a 2D-ocean-bottom node (OBN) dataset after offset-continuation-trajectory (OCT) data regularizationAlexandre W. Camargo, José Ribeiro, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Gustavo B. D. Ignacio and Martin Tygel16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Automatic detection of diffraction-apex using fully convolutional networksThamaris Coelho, Lucas M. Araújo, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel, Sandra Ávila and Edson Borin16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
An analysis of the impact of Virtual Machines allocation on the cloud – The case of Full Waveform Inversion on Amazon Web ServicesWillian M. Hayashida, Alexandre W. Camargo, Charles B. Rodamilans, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, José Ribeiro, Caian Benedicto, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Using graphics processing units on the cloud to accelerate and reduce processing cost of parameters estimation of seismic processing algorithmNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, José Ribeiro and Martin Tygel16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
A heuristic to optimize the execution cost of distributed seismic processing programs on the cloudNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel and Edson BorinSEG Technical Program
Optimizing the Execution Costs of High-Performance Geophysics Software on the CloudNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. Coimbra, Charles B. Rodamilans, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition
Using Adaptive Differential Evolution algorithm to improve parameter estimation in seismic processingJosé Ribeiro, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Gustavo B. Ignacio and Martin Tygel16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Accelerating seismic parameter estimation with Adaptive Differential Evolution (JADE) and graphics processing units (GPUs)José Ribeiro, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. Coimbra and Martin Tygel4th EAGE Workshop on High Performance Computing for Upstream
Construction of 3D and 5D D-volumes in prestack domainJoão H. Speglich, Jorge H. Faccipieri, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. Coimbra and Martin TygelSEG Technical Program
Enriching synthetic data with real noise using Neural Style TransferNaomi Takemoto, Lucas M. Araújo, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel, Sandra E. F. Ávila and Edson Borin16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Análise de Desempenho do Traçamento de Raios Utilizando Nuvem Computacional e o Modelo SPITSMarcelo Vilela, Gustavo B. D. Ignacio, Nicholas T. Okita and Edson BorinERAD SP

2018

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Common Reflection Surface method in weakly anisotropic VTI mediaRodrigo Bloot, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri and Martin TygelGeophysics
Enhancement of diffractions in pre-stack domain by means of a finite-offset double-square-root traveltimeTiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri, João H. Speglich, Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin TygelGeophysics
Detecção de estruturas em dados sísmicos com Deep LearningLucas M. Araujo, Fabíola. M. C. Oliveira, Jorge H. Faccipieri Jr., Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Sandra Ávila, Martin Tygel and Edson BorinBoletim SBGf
Análise de Custo da Nuvem Computacional para a Execução de Algoritmos no Processamento SísmicoNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Edson BorinERAD-SP
Using SPITS to optimize the cost of high-performance geophysics processing on the cloudNicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Charles B. Rodamilans, Martin Tygel and Edson BorinEAGE HPC Workshop
Otimização automática do custo de processamento de programas SPITS na AWSNicholas T. Okita, Charles B. Rodamilans, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel and Edson BorinXIX Simpósio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho
Uma análise de custo e desempenho do modelo meteorológico BRAMS na nuvem computacional AzureWillian Hayashida, Charles B. Rodamilans, Martin Tygel and Edson BorinWSCAD-WIC
Time-migration Tomography based on Reflection Slopes in Pre-stack Time-migrated Seismic DataHao Zhao, Anders U. Waldeland, Diego Rueda Serrano, Martin Tygel and Eirik Iversen80th EAGE Conference and Exhibition

2017

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Fast and robust Common Reflection Surface (CRS) parameter estimationAnders U. Waldeland, Hao Zhao, Jorge H. Faccipieri, Anne H. Solberg and Leiv-J. GeliusGeophysics
Harvesting the computational power of heterogeneous clusters to accelerate seismic processingCaian Benedicto, Ian L. Rodrigues, Martin Tygel, Mauricio Breternitz and Edson Borin15th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
The CRS Method for Weakly Anisotropic VTI MediaRodrigo Bloot, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri and Martin Tygel15th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society

2016

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Common-reflection-point time migrationTiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri, Dany S. Rueda and Martin TygelStudia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Offset-continuation stacking: Theory and proof of conceptTiago A. A. Coimbra, Amélia Novais and Jörg SchleicherGeophysics
Stacking apertures and estimation strategies for reflection and diffraction enhancementJorge H. Faccipieri, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin TygelGeophysics
Migration velocity analysis using residual diffraction moveout: a real-data exampleJaime A. C. Gonzalez, José J. S. de Figueiredo, Tiago A. Coimbra, Jörg Schleicher and Amélia NovaisJournal of Geophysics and Engineering
PY-PITS: A Scalable Python Runtime System for the Computation of Partially Idempotent TasksEdson Borin, Caian Benedicto, Ian L. Rodrigues, F. Pisani, Martin Tygel and Mauricio Breternitz5th Workshop on Parallel Programming Models

2015

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Migration-velocity building in time and depth from 3D (2D) Common-Reflection-Surface (CRS) stacking – theoretical frameworkLeiv-J. Gelius and Martin TygelStudia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Prestack time-migration velocity analysis using remigration trajectoriesHenrique B. Santos, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jörg Schleicher and Amélia NovaisGeophysics
Efficient and Fault Tolerant Computation of Partially Idempotent TasksEdson Borin, Ian L. Rodrigues, Alber T. Novo, João D. Sacramento, Mauricio Breternitz and Martin Tygel14th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society

2014

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
Implementation aspects of eigendecomposition-based high-resolution velocity spectraTiago Barros, Renato Lopes and Martin TygelGeophysical Prospecting
Parameter estimation from non-hyperbolic reflection traveltimes for large aperture common midpoint gathersHervé Perroud, Rafael Krummenauer, Martin Tygel and Renato LopesNear Surface Geophysics
True-amplitude single-stack redatumingMatheus F. Pila, Jörg Schleicher, Amélia Novais and Tiago A. A. CoimbraJournal of Applied Geophysics
Image-ray TomographySergius Dell, Dirk Gajewski and Martin TygelGeophysical Prospecting
Enabling large data processing with the 3D ZO CRS Stack softwareEdson Borin, Alber T. Novo, Ian L. Rodrigues, João R. D. do Sacramento, Jorge H. Faccipieri and Martin Tygel17th Annual WIT Meeting
Prestack Migration Velocity Analysis Using Time-remigration TrajectoriesTiago A. A. Coimbra, Henrique B. Santos, Jörg Schleicher and Amélia Novais76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition
A CRS-based Heterogeneity AttributeJorge H. Faccipieri, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin Tygel76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition Workshops, 2014
Common-Refection-Surface (CRS) Stacking with Diffraction Moveouts of Varying ApertureJorge H. Faccipieri, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel and L.J. Gelius76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition Workshops

2013

TitleAuthorsJournal / Conference
2D common-offset traveltime based diffraction enhancement and imagingEndrias A. Asgedom, Martin Tygel and Leiv-J. GeliusGeophysical Prospecting
Recovering diffractions in CRS stacked sectionsJ.H. Faccipieri, Martin Tygel, D. Rueda and L.J. GeliusFirst Break
High-resolution imaging of diffractions – A window-steered MUSIC approachLeiv-J. Gelius, Martin Tygel, André K. Takahata, Endrias G. Asgedom and Dany R. SerranoGeophysics