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Conventional physical-based methods for acquiring wave parameters from radar sea clutter images use three-dimensional Fourier transform and spectral analysis. They are limited by some assumptions, empirical formulas and the calibration process while obtaining the modulation transfer function (MTF) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Therefore, further improvement of wave inversion accuracy by using the physical-based method presents a challenge. Inspired by the capability of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in image characteristic processing, a deep-learning inversion method based on deep CNN is proposed. No intermediate step or parameter is needed in the CNN-based method, therefore fewer errors are introduced. Wave parameter inversion models were constructed based on CNN to inverse the wave\u2019s spectral peak period and significant wave height. In the present paper, the numerically simulated X-band radar image data were used for a numerical investigation of wave parameters. Results of the conventional spectral analysis and CNN-based methods were compared and the CNN-based method had a higher accuracy on the same data set. The influence of training strategy on CNN-based inversion models was studied to analyze the dependence of a deep-learning inversion model on training data. 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