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

Title Authors Journal / 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

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Quantifying anisotropy parameters in weakly anisotropic media through diffraction traveltime parameter clusters Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot, Alexandre W. Camargo and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior Brazilian Journal of Geophysics
Hybrid GDS-Cache Approach to Boost IO throughput in 3D Seismic Processing Caian Benedicto, Nicholas T. Okita, Fabio Bronzati, João Paulo Navarro and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior 85th EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Ultra-fast diffraction separation in the five-dimensional domain Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior 85th EAGE Conference & Exhibition

2023

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Ultra-fast traveltime parameters search by a coevolutionary optimization approach using graphics processing units José Ribeiro Neto, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior arXiv: Geophysics
Exploring velocity-spreading factor and consequences through dynamic ray-tracing in general anisotropic media: A comprehensive tutorial Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior arXiv: Geophysics
Comparisons between FO-CRS and OCT stacking operators by quality measures Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Nicholas T. Okita and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior 18th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Time-lapse analysis using the wave-equation time migration Alexandre W. Camargo, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior 18th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Study of anisotropy characterization in weakly anisotropic VTI media through diffraction traveltime parameter clusters Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Rodrigo Bloot and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior 18th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society

2022

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Increasing IO throughput in seismic with NFS over RDMA and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage Caian Benedicto, Nicholas Torres Okita and Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior 3rd EAGE Workshop on HPC in Americas

2021

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

2020

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Extending the usage of graphics processing units on the cloud for cost savings on seismic data regularization Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, José Ribeiro and Martin Tygel Revista Brasileira de Geofísica
Time-migration velocity estimation using Fréchet derivatives based on nonlinear kinematic migration/demigration solvers Hao Zhao, Anders U. Waldeland, Dany Rueda Serrano, Martin Tygel and Einar Iversen Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Fault-tolerant wave propagation assisted by independent checkpointing strategy Alexandre W. Camargo, Nicholas T. Okita, José Ribeiro, Caian Benedicto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin Tygel 82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Highly scalable full-waveform inversion on the cloud using graphics processing units Nicholas T. Okita, Alexandre W. Camargo, José Ribeiro, Caian Benedicto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin Tygel 82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Boundary saving and checkpointing: a hybrid memory strategy for reverse time migration José Ribeiro, Nicholas T. Okita, Alexandre W. Camargo, Caian Benedicto, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior and Martin Tygel 82nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition

2019

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Stretch-free generalized normal moveout correction Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior, Tiago A. A. Coimbra and Rodrigo Bloot Geophysical Prospecting
Fast estimation of pre-stack Common Reflection Surface parameters Anders U. Waldeland, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri Junior, Anne H. Schistad Solberg and Leiv-J. Gelius Geophysical Prospecting
3D Pre-stack Fourier Mixed-Domain (FMD) depth migration for VTI media with large lateral contrasts Hao Zhao, Leiv-J. Gelius, Martin Tygel, E. Harris Nilsen and A. Kjelsrud Evensen Journal of Applied Geophysics
A Two-Phase Approach for Full Waveform Inversion using Constrained Optimization Alexandre W. Camargo and Lucio Santos 16th 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 regularization Alexandre W. Camargo, José Ribeiro, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Gustavo B. D. Ignacio and Martin Tygel 16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Automatic detection of diffraction-apex using fully convolutional networks Thamaris Coelho, Lucas M. Araújo, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel, Sandra Ávila and Edson Borin 16th 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 Services Willian M. Hayashida, Alexandre W. Camargo, Charles B. Rodamilans, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, José Ribeiro, Caian Benedicto, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin 16th 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 algorithm Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, José Ribeiro and Martin Tygel 16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
A heuristic to optimize the execution cost of distributed seismic processing programs on the cloud Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin SEG Technical Program
Optimizing the Execution Costs of High-Performance Geophysics Software on the Cloud Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. Coimbra, Charles B. Rodamilans, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition
Using Adaptive Differential Evolution algorithm to improve parameter estimation in seismic processing José Ribeiro, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Gustavo B. Ignacio and Martin Tygel 16th 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 Tygel 4th EAGE Workshop on High Performance Computing for Upstream
Construction of 3D and 5D D-volumes in prestack domain João H. Speglich, Jorge H. Faccipieri, Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. Coimbra and Martin Tygel SEG Technical Program
Enriching synthetic data with real noise using Neural Style Transfer Naomi Takemoto, Lucas M. Araújo, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel, Sandra E. F. Ávila and Edson Borin 16th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
Análise de Desempenho do Traçamento de Raios Utilizando Nuvem Computacional e o Modelo SPITS Marcelo Vilela, Gustavo B. D. Ignacio, Nicholas T. Okita and Edson Borin ERAD SP

2018

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Common Reflection Surface method in weakly anisotropic VTI media Rodrigo Bloot, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri and Martin Tygel Geophysics
Enhancement of diffractions in pre-stack domain by means of a finite-offset double-square-root traveltime Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri, João H. Speglich, Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin Tygel Geophysics
Detecção de estruturas em dados sísmicos com Deep Learning Lucas M. Araujo, Fabíola. M. C. Oliveira, Jorge H. Faccipieri Jr., Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Sandra Ávila, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin Boletim SBGf
Análise de Custo da Nuvem Computacional para a Execução de Algoritmos no Processamento Sísmico Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Edson Borin ERAD-SP
Using SPITS to optimize the cost of high-performance geophysics processing on the cloud Nicholas T. Okita, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Charles B. Rodamilans, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin EAGE HPC Workshop
Otimização automática do custo de processamento de programas SPITS na AWS Nicholas T. Okita, Charles B. Rodamilans, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin XIX Simpósio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho
Uma análise de custo e desempenho do modelo meteorológico BRAMS na nuvem computacional Azure Willian Hayashida, Charles B. Rodamilans, Martin Tygel and Edson Borin WSCAD-WIC
Time-migration Tomography based on Reflection Slopes in Pre-stack Time-migrated Seismic Data Hao Zhao, Anders U. Waldeland, Diego Rueda Serrano, Martin Tygel and Eirik Iversen 80th EAGE Conference and Exhibition

2017

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Fast and robust Common Reflection Surface (CRS) parameter estimation Anders U. Waldeland, Hao Zhao, Jorge H. Faccipieri, Anne H. Solberg and Leiv-J. Gelius Geophysics
Harvesting the computational power of heterogeneous clusters to accelerate seismic processing Caian Benedicto, Ian L. Rodrigues, Martin Tygel, Mauricio Breternitz and Edson Borin 15th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society
The CRS Method for Weakly Anisotropic VTI Media Rodrigo Bloot, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri and Martin Tygel 15th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society

2016

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Common-reflection-point time migration Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jorge H. Faccipieri, Dany S. Rueda and Martin Tygel Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Offset-continuation stacking: Theory and proof of concept Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Amélia Novais and Jörg Schleicher Geophysics
Stacking apertures and estimation strategies for reflection and diffraction enhancement Jorge H. Faccipieri, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin Tygel Geophysics
Migration velocity analysis using residual diffraction moveout: a real-data example Jaime A. C. Gonzalez, José J. S. de Figueiredo, Tiago A. Coimbra, Jörg Schleicher and Amélia Novais Journal of Geophysics and Engineering
PY-PITS: A Scalable Python Runtime System for the Computation of Partially Idempotent Tasks Edson Borin, Caian Benedicto, Ian L. Rodrigues, F. Pisani, Martin Tygel and Mauricio Breternitz 5th Workshop on Parallel Programming Models

2015

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Migration-velocity building in time and depth from 3D (2D) Common-Reflection-Surface (CRS) stacking – theoretical framework Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin Tygel Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
Prestack time-migration velocity analysis using remigration trajectories Henrique B. Santos, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Jörg Schleicher and Amélia Novais Geophysics
Efficient and Fault Tolerant Computation of Partially Idempotent Tasks Edson Borin, Ian L. Rodrigues, Alber T. Novo, João D. Sacramento, Mauricio Breternitz and Martin Tygel 14th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society

2014

Title Authors Journal / Conference
Implementation aspects of eigendecomposition-based high-resolution velocity spectra Tiago Barros, Renato Lopes and Martin Tygel Geophysical Prospecting
Parameter estimation from non-hyperbolic reflection traveltimes for large aperture common midpoint gathers Hervé Perroud, Rafael Krummenauer, Martin Tygel and Renato Lopes Near Surface Geophysics
True-amplitude single-stack redatuming Matheus F. Pila, Jörg Schleicher, Amélia Novais and Tiago A. A. Coimbra Journal of Applied Geophysics
Image-ray Tomography Sergius Dell, Dirk Gajewski and Martin Tygel Geophysical Prospecting
Enabling large data processing with the 3D ZO CRS Stack software Edson Borin, Alber T. Novo, Ian L. Rodrigues, João R. D. do Sacramento, Jorge H. Faccipieri and Martin Tygel 17th Annual WIT Meeting
Prestack Migration Velocity Analysis Using Time-remigration Trajectories Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Henrique B. Santos, Jörg Schleicher and Amélia Novais 76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition
A CRS-based Heterogeneity Attribute Jorge H. Faccipieri, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Leiv-J. Gelius and Martin Tygel 76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition Workshops, 2014
Common-Refection-Surface (CRS) Stacking with Diffraction Moveouts of Varying Aperture Jorge H. Faccipieri, Tiago A. A. Coimbra, Martin Tygel and L.J. Gelius 76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition Workshops

2013

Title Authors Journal / Conference
2D common-offset traveltime based diffraction enhancement and imaging Endrias A. Asgedom, Martin Tygel and Leiv-J. Gelius Geophysical Prospecting
Recovering diffractions in CRS stacked sections J.H. Faccipieri, Martin Tygel, D. Rueda and L.J. Gelius First Break
High-resolution imaging of diffractions – A window-steered MUSIC approach Leiv-J. Gelius, Martin Tygel, André K. Takahata, Endrias G. Asgedom and Dany R. Serrano Geophysics