Definition:Segmentation is the process of partitioning a piece of information into meaningful elementary parts termed segments.
Considering still images, (spatial) segmentation means partitioning the image to a number of arbitrarily shaped regions, each of them typically being assumed to constitute a meaningful part of the image, i.e. to correspond to one of the objects depicted in it or to a part of one such object. Considering moving images, i.e. video, the term segmentation is used to describe a range of different processes for partitioning the video to meaningful parts at different granularities. Segmentation of video can thus be temporal, aiming to break down the video to scenes or shots, spatial, addressing the problem of independently segmenting each video frame to arbitrarily shaped regions, or spatio-temporal, extending the previous case to the generation of temporal sequences of arbitrarily shaped spatial regions. The term segmentation is also frequently used to describe...
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Mezaris, V., Kompatsiaris, I., Strintzis, M.G. (2006). Segmentation of Images and Video. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_213
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