Tutorial 9: exercise

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This tutorial exercise was generated from an Jupyter notebook. You can download the notebook here.

Exercise 1

What is segmentation in the context of image processing?

Exercise 2

What is thresholding, and what is it used for?

Exercise 3

What is a structuring element and what is it used for?

Exercise 4

How would you define an edge in an image? Describe how a Laplacian of Gaussian filter can be used to find edges in an image. Why can't we just use a Laplacian filter without the Gaussian?