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In this paper, an end-to-end conditional random fields generative adversarial segmentation network is proposed. Three key factors of this algorithm are as follows. First, the network combines generative adversarial network and Bayesian framework to realize the estimation from the prior probability to the posterior probability. Second, the skip connected encoder-decoder network is combined with CRF layer to implement end-to-end network training. Finally, the adversarial loss and the cross-entropy loss guide the training of the segmentation network through back propagation. The experimental results show that our proposed method outperformed FCN in terms of mIoU for 0.0342 and 0.11 on two data sets, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11131604","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,5]],"date-time":"2019-07-05T11:44:16Z","timestamp":1562327056000},"page":"1604","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["An End-to-End Conditional Random Fields and Skip-Connected Generative Adversarial Segmentation Network for Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3662-5769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chu","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Peizhang","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Dehui","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Mingsheng","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center for Geospatial Technology, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2781","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2010.2049528","article-title":"An edge embedded marker-based watershed algorithm for high spatial resolution remote sensing image segmentation","volume":"19","author":"Li","year":"2010","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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