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                                                     CHAPTER 7                     Image Segmentation   7.1 Introduction to Image Segmentation   Image segmentation is a fundamental process in many image, video and computer vision applications. It decomposes an image into several constituent components, which ideally correspond to real-world objects. In segmentation we wish to find out what is in the picture. Segmentation is used when we need to automate a particular activity.   “Image segmentation refers to the process of partitioning an image into groups of pixels which are homogeneous with respect to some criterion”. ...