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The proposed algorithm employs a CNN (convolutional neural network), which is widely used in image classification, to tackle the velocity dealiasing issue. Velocity aliasing can be converted to a classification problem. The velocity field and aliased count can be regarded as the input image and the label, respectively. Through a fit-and-adjust process, the best weights and the biases of the model are determined to minimize a cost function. The proposed method is compared against the traditional region-based method. Both methods show similar performance on mostly filled precipitation. 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