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Meanwhile, traditional CNNs have spatial redundancy because different convolution kernels scan and store information independently. SqueezeNet replaces a part of 3 \u00d7 3 convolution kernels in CNNs with 1 \u00d7 1 convolution kernels, decomposes the original one convolution layer into two layers, and encapsulates them into a Fire module. This structure can reduce the parameters of network. Octave Convolution (OctConv) pools some feature maps firstly and stores them separately from the feature maps with the original size. It can reduce spatial redundancy by sharing information between the two groups. In this article, in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the network simultaneously, Fire modules of SqueezeNet are used to replace the traditional convolution layers in OctConv to form a new dual neural architecture: OctSqueezeNet. Our experiments, conducted using two well-known LiDAR datasets and several classical state-of-the-art classification methods, revealed that our proposed classification approach based on OctSqueezeNet is able to provide competitive advantages in terms of both classification accuracy and computational amount.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19224927","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,13]],"date-time":"2019-11-13T09:11:27Z","timestamp":1573636287000},"page":"4927","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["A Dual Neural Architecture Combined SqueezeNet with OctConv for LiDAR Data Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9118-230X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aili","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Measuring &amp; Control Technology and Instrumentations of Heilongjiang, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}]},{"given":"Minhui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Measuring &amp; Control Technology and Instrumentations of Heilongjiang, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}]},{"given":"Kaiyuan","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Measuring &amp; Control Technology and Instrumentations of Heilongjiang, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}]},{"given":"Mengqing","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Measuring &amp; Control Technology and Instrumentations of Heilongjiang, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6421-8186","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuji","family":"Iwahori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Chubu University, Aichi 487-8501, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"You, S.Y., Hu, J.H., Neumann, U., and Fox, P. 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