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However, as the number of views grows, the issue of data quality is becoming more apparent, limiting the potential benefits of multi-view data. Although recent deep neural network (DNN)-based models can learn the weight of data adaptively, a lack of research on explicitly quantifying the data quality of each view when fusing them renders these models inexplicable, performing unsatisfactorily and inflexibly in downstream remote sensing tasks. To fill this gap, in this paper, evidential deep learning is introduced to the task of aerial-ground dual-view remote sensing scene classification to model the credibility of each view. Specifically, the theory of evidence is used to calculate an uncertainty value which describes the decision-making risk of each view. Based on this uncertainty, a novel decision-level fusion strategy is proposed to ensure that the view with lower risk obtains more weight, making the classification more credible. On two well-known, publicly available datasets of aerial-ground dual-view remote sensing images, the proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art results, demonstrating its effectiveness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061546","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,13]],"date-time":"2023-03-13T03:03:57Z","timestamp":1678676637000},"page":"1546","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Credible Remote Sensing Scene Classification Using Evidential Fusion on Aerial-Ground Dual-View Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9949-4693","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kun","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China"}]},{"given":"Qian","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China"}]},{"given":"Siyuan","family":"Hao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3118-6472","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6975-1732","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lijian","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Control Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266520, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1865","DOI":"10.1109\/JPROC.2017.2675998","article-title":"Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification: Benchmark and State of the Art","volume":"105","author":"Cheng","year":"2017","journal-title":"Proc. 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