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For finding a suitable model, several similar classification models based on convolutional neural network have been explored. We have found out that adding\/involving\/extracting better and more complex features result in a significant accuracy related performance improvement. Therefore, a new model taking this finding into consideration has been developed, tested and validated. The model developed is benchmarked with selected state-of-art classification models of relevance for the \u201chouse classification\u201d endeavor. The test results obtained in this comprehensive benchmarking clearly demonstrate and validate the effectiveness and the superiority of our here developed deep-learning model. Overall, one notices that our model reaches classification performance figures (accuracy, precision, etc.) which are at least 8% higher (which is extremely significant in the ranges above 90%) than those reached by the previous state-of-the-art methods involved in the conducted comprehensive benchmarking.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20195672","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,5]],"date-time":"2020-10-05T08:35:57Z","timestamp":1601886957000},"page":"5672","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["A Visual Sensing Concept for Robustly Classifying House Types through a Convolutional Neural Network Architecture Involving a Multi-Channel Features Extraction"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Vahid","family":"Tavakkoli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Smart Systems Technologies, University Klagenfurt, A9020 Klagenfurt, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kabeh","family":"Mohsenzadegan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Smart Systems Technologies, University Klagenfurt, A9020 Klagenfurt, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0773-9476","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kyandoghere","family":"Kyamakya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Smart Systems Technologies, University Klagenfurt, A9020 Klagenfurt, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"162","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neucom.2019.11.084","article-title":"Local manifold sparse model for image classification","volume":"382","author":"Luo","year":"2020","journal-title":"Neurocomputing"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"145","article-title":"A Dynamic Bayes Network for visual Pedestrian Tracking","volume":"40","author":"Klinger","year":"2014","journal-title":"ISPRS Int. 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