segmentation

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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In computer vision segmentation is the process that identifies potential objects. In big data analysis and distributed processing, segmentation is when the dataset is broken into smaller fragments that can each be processed (largely) independently following a segmentation rule

Used in Chap. 8: pages 117, 118, 119; Chap. 12: page 185