Automatic Salt Segmentation with UNET in Python using Deep Learning

Abstract: Salt – affected lands are not used for agriculture. The presence of salt within the soil
solution reduces the flexibility of the plant to absorb water, and this ends up in reductions within
the rate of growth. So, the salt segmentation is being done to find the land containing salt.
Segmentation of salt deposits beneath the Earth surface, where the seismic image which are of a
particular pixel, that pixel is either classified as salt or sediment. The goal of this salt
segmentation project is to segment region that contains salt. UNET architecture is used to
achieve the segmentation results. From the input image, we select the important part. The idea is
to retain only the important features from the given region image.

UNET architecture contains two paths. The first path is the contraction path which is
used to capture the context in the image. The second path is the symmetric expanding path which
is used to enable precise localization using transposed convolutions. By using this architecture,
we can find salt segmentation, from the seismic will get the salt region, then the value of the total
salt region is been shown.