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Research and Development Image segmentation
Image segmentation is a cutting-edge digital process which consists of automatically recognising objects in a scene without any prior intervention by the user. This total automation puts the artificial intelligence of systems to the test, as the objects obtained must correspond as closely as possible to the semantic content of the image.
There are countless uses for this kind of technology:
- Medicine: detection of cells in cytology; location of fractures, analysis of ultrasound scans, CAT scans and X-rays in traumatology.
- Industry: automatic supervision of industrial processes, such as quality control, surveillance and failure detection.
- Aerospace: analysis of aerial or satellite photographs: classification of different types of vegetation to study their level of degradation; classification and control of agricultural crops; object detection.
Imagiam has managed to address all these needs by developing a revolutionary technology for digital image segmentation that recognises objects in a scene in any situation. The company has thus positioned itself as a supplier of general purpose systems that can be easily adapted and optimized to the specific circumstances of the sector in question.
Segmentation for shapes recognition.
Location of aneurisms in an ocular angiography.
Classification of crops and soil types.
A glimpse into the future
What does digital image segmentation represent for the future? The answer is a new generation of interactive systems. Humans do not aspire to interact with abstract entities such as pixels, but with entities that have a meaning and form part of a scene, such as a car, a ball, etc. Image segmentation is the tool that allows you to move from pixel to object. Moreover, the success of an entire high-level image analysis system can depend on the success or failure of this first stage. In short, the reliable segmentation of objects in a scene is the first step towards taking independent decisions.
The audiovisual processing systems of the future are pointing in this direction. These systems are intended to make the leap from seeing to doing, i.e. from passivity to action. In this context, the pixel will be reduced to nothing, and the concept of the object takes on greater importance as the minimum unit of information. Therefore, in the certainty that we have the leading image segmentation technology in the world, Imagiam is strongly positioned in a sector that is going to become extremely important over the next few years.