Three-dimensional multiscale fusion for porous media on microtomography images of different resolutions

Xuan Li, Qizhi Teng, Yonghao Zhang, Shuhua Xiong, and Junxi Feng
Phys. Rev. E 101, 053308 – Published 18 May 2020

Abstract

Accurately acquiring the three-dimensional (3D) image of a porous medium is an imperative issue for the prediction of multiple physical properties. Considering the inherent nature of the multiscale pores contained in porous media such as tight sandstones, to completely characterize the pore structure, one needs to scan the microstructure at different resolutions. Specifically, low-resolution (LR) images cover a larger field of view (FOV) of the sample, but are lacking small-scale features, whereas high-resolution (HR) images contain ample information, but sometimes only cover a limited FOV. To address this issue, we propose a method for fusing the spatial information from a two-dimensional (2D) HR image into a 3D LR image, and finally reconstructing an integrated 3D structure with added fine-scale features. In the fusion process, the large-scale structure depicted by the 3D LR image is fixed as background and the 2D image is utilized as training image to reconstruct a small-scale structure based on the background. To assess the performance of our method, we test it on a sandstone scanned with low and high resolutions. Statistical properties between the reconstructed image and the target are quantitatively compared. The comparison indicates that the proposed method enables an accurate fusion of the LR and HR images because the small-scale information is precisely reproduced within the large one.

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  • Received 16 January 2020
  • Accepted 28 April 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.053308

©2020 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

  1. Research Areas
  1. Physical Systems
Statistical Physics & Thermodynamics

Authors & Affiliations

Xuan Li1, Qizhi Teng1,2,*, Yonghao Zhang3,4, Shuhua Xiong1,2, and Junxi Feng1

  • 1College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Wireless Power Transmission of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
  • 3Technique center of CNPC Logging Ltd., Xi'an 710077, China
  • 4Well Logging Key Laboratory, CNPC, Xi'an 710077, China

  • *qzteng@scu.edu.cn

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Vol. 101, Iss. 5 — May 2020

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