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Image Segmentation

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Edge detection; Pixel classification; Region segmentation; Thresholding

Definition

The rapid rate of image analysis field has grown enormously in the past few decades. Image analysis intends to construct explicit, meaningful descriptions of physical objects in images. It can be divided into two parts: low-level image analysis and high-level image analysis. Low-level tasks focus on region-based segmentation, whereas high-level tasks are related to object-oriented representation. Image segmentation, a process of pixel classification, aims to extract or segment objects or regions from the background. Intrinsic images can be generated at the low-level processing, revealing physical properties of the imaged scene. This can often be implemented with parallel computation.

Historical Background

Image segmentation is a critical step to the success of object recognition [12], image compression [2], image visualization [7], and image retrieval [3]. Pal and Pal [13] provided a review on...

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  1. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Frank Y. Shih

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  1. Frank Y. Shih
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Vincent Oria

  2. Digital Content and Media Sciences ReseaMultimedia Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Shin'ichi Satoh

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Shih, F.Y. (2018). Image Segmentation. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1011

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