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However, directly applying common-structure CNNs to pixel-based remote sensing image classification will lead to boundary or outline distortions of the land cover and consumes enormous computation time in the image classification stage. To solve this problem, we propose a high-resolution remote sensing image classification method based on CNN and the restricted conditional random field algorithm (CNN-RCRF). CNN-RCRF adopts CNN superpixel classification instead of pixel-based classification and uses the restricted conditional random field algorithm (RCRF) to refine the superpixel result image into a pixel-based result. The proposed method not only takes advantage of the classification ability of CNNs but can also avoid boundary or outline distortions of the land cover and greatly reduce computation time in classifying images. The effectiveness of the proposed method is tested with two high-resolution remote sensing images, and the experimental results show that the CNN-RCRF outperforms the existing traditional methods in terms of overall accuracy, and CNN-RCRF\u2019s computation time is much less than that of traditional pixel-based deep-model methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10060920","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,11]],"date-time":"2018-06-11T11:01:01Z","timestamp":1528714861000},"page":"920","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Classification Method Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Restricted Conditional Random Field"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Xin","family":"Pan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer &amp; Information Technology, Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun 130012, China"},{"name":"The Key Laboratory of Changbai Mountain Historical Culture and VR Technology Reconfiguration, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Jian","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer &amp; Information Technology, Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun 130012, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1466","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cageo.2009.11.010","article-title":"A variable precision rough set approach to the remote sensing land use\/cover classification","volume":"36","author":"Pan","year":"2010","journal-title":"Comput. 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