Definition:Objective segmentation evaluation includes both standalone evaluation methods, which do not make use of reference segmentation, and relative evaluation methods employing ground truth.
The plethora of image and video segmentation techniques in the literature and their wide use in a variety of applications makes increasingly important the need for the objective evaluation of segmentation results. Objective segmentation evaluation can be a valuable tool for supporting the selection of suitable segmentation tools for a given application. It could also serve in joint segmentation/evaluation schemes, to allow for iterative improvement of segmentation accuracy.
Work on objective segmentation evaluation includes both standalone evaluation methods, which do not make use of reference segmentation, and relative evaluation methods employing ground truth. Standalone evaluation methods rely on the calculation of statistical properties of a given segmentation, such as intra-object...
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(2006). Segmentation Evaluation. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_212
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