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The performance of deep learning in images often depends on a large number of manually labeled samples, the production of which is time-consuming and expensive. Thus, this study focuses on reducing the number of labeled samples used and proposing a semi-supervised deep learning approach based on an edge detection network (SDLED), which is the first to introduce semi-supervised learning to the edge detection neural network for extracting building roof boundaries from high-resolution remote sensing images. This approach uses a small number of labeled samples and abundant unlabeled images for joint training. An expert-level semantic edge segmentation model is trained based on labeled samples, which guides unlabeled images to generate pseudo-labels automatically. The inaccurate label sets and manually labeled samples are used to update the semantic edge model together. Particularly, we modified the semantic segmentation network D-LinkNet to obtain high-quality pseudo-labels. 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