Last week we got a vanilla introduction to image augmentations, this week we’ll take an in depth look, and understand what is image segmentation and learn about the U-net Architecture!
I guess we use classification when we care about the presence/absence of an object in an image. And we use segmentation when we care about the exact position of an object in the image.
Image Segmentation is primarily used when we want to understand the entire context of various contents in the image. The context here means: accurately identifying the position of different objects in an image.
Use Case:
Image Masking(the one we use in zoom to add virtual background)
My guess is that we should segment BEFORE classification so that we can only send the part of the image that may contain a tumor to our classification model to classify it as benign/malignant.