undersegmentation

noun

A division into too few segments, as when attempting to recognize parts of an image.

Opposite
oversegmentation
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Meanings

nounundersegmentation (countable and uncountable, plural undersegmentations)

plural undersegmentations

  1. countableuncountablecomputingA division into too few segments, as when attempting to recognize parts of an image.

    They all perform well in terms of segmentation accuracy, but vary in regard to the other desiderata: GBH captures object boundaries best; SWA has the best potential for region compression; and TSP achieves the best undersegmentation error.

    2015, Chenliang Xu, Jason J. Corso, “LIBSVX: A Supervoxel Library and Benchmark for Early Video Processing”, in arXiv

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
oversegmentation

Origin

From under- + segmentation.

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