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Watershed Segmentation with a Controlled Precision

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Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing (ISMM 2017)

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Focusing on catchment zones which may overlap rather than on catchment basins which do not overlap allows to devise innovative segmentation strategies.

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Meyer, F. (2017). Watershed Segmentation with a Controlled Precision. In: Angulo, J., Velasco-Forero, S., Meyer, F. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing. ISMM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57240-6_7

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