Model-based Evaluation of Image Segmentation Methods

Image segmentation is the division of an image into (meaningful) parts. In spite of the numerous methods that have been presented over the years, it is surprising to see how little effort has been made to evaluate the results of the various segmentation methods. In the literature, we discovered three main approaches to handle the difficult problem of evaluation.

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