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Interactive Segmentation Techniques

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Image segmentation, which extracts meaningful partitions from an image, is a critical technique in image processing and computer vision

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2677 Ellendale place, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, USA

    Jia He

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, 5530W 190TH ST, Seoul, 90503, Republic of South Korea

    Chang-Su Kim

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 620 Hampton Road, Los Angeles, CA, 91006, USA

    C.-C. Jay Kuo

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He, J., Kim, CS., Kuo, CC.J. (2014). Introduction. In: Interactive Segmentation Techniques. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-60-4_1

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