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Semantic Segmentation

A computer vision task that labels each pixel in an image with a class, assigning semantic meaning.

In more detail

Semantic segmentation classifies every pixel. Used in autonomous driving, medical imaging, and scene understanding. Architectures include U-Net, DeepLab, Transformers. More detailed than classification.

Examples

  • Road scene segmentation for autonomous driving
  • Medical image segmentation
  • Satellite image analysis
  • Portrait segmentation (background removal)

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