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The loss function used for training the network is based on a combination of two components. The first component is the error in the reconstructed velocity. The second component is the error between the sound pressure on the holographic plane and its estimate obtained from forward propagating the pressure and velocity fields on the structure through the Kirchhoff\u2013Helmholtz integral; thus, bringing some knowledge about the physics of the process under study into the estimation algorithm. Due to the explicit presence of the Kirchhoff\u2013Helmholtz integral in the loss function, we name the proposed technique the Kirchhoff\u2013Helmholtz-based convolutional neural network, KHCNN. KHCNN has been tested on two large datasets of rectangular plates and violin shells. Results show that it attains very good accuracy, with a gain in the NMSE of the estimated velocity field that can top 10 dB, with respect to state-of-the-art techniques. 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