Revisiting ant colony algorithms to seismic faults detection

Seismic fault extracting is a time consuming task that can be aided by image enhancement of fault areas. The recent literature addresses this task by using ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms to highlight the fault edges. This work proposes improvements to current state of the art methods by revisiting and/or reincorporating classic aspects of ACO, such as ant distribution, pheromone evaporation and deposition, not previously considered in this seismic fault enhancement scenario.The proposed approach arrives at good results presenting images with little noise and great localization of fault edges.