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Image segmentation is the task of finding groups of pixels that “go together”. In statistics, this problem is known as cluster analysis and is a widely studied area with hundreds of different algorithms (Jain and Dubes 1988; Kaufman and Rousseeuw 1990; Jain, Duin, and Mao 2000; Jain, Topchy, Law et al. 2004).
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Szeliski, R. (2011). Segmentation. In: Computer Vision. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-935-0_5
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