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Watershed Segmentation

Watershed segmentation is a morphological image processing technique that automatically segments an image into distinct regions by treating image intensity as a topographic landscape where each object corresponds to a valley. Introduced by Beucher and Lantuéjoul in 1979 and refined by Meyer, the watershed algorithm is particularly effective for separating touching or overlapping objects.

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Watershed Algorithm for Image Segmentation
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / computer-vision
  • Meyer, F. (1994). Topographic distance and watershed lines. Signal Processing, 38(1), 113–125. · DOI 10.1016/0165-1684(94)90060-4
  • Beucher, S., & Lantuéjoul, C. (1979). Use of watersheds in contour detection. International Workshop on Image Processing, Real-Time Edge and Motion Detection/Estimation, 2.1–2.12. · URL
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