watershed
- noun
- /ˈwɔːtərʃɛd/
- Specialized
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algoritmo watershed
- For example, during the last decade, a procedure called "watershed analysis" was developed and applied by federal and state agencies and by private industry to address the effects of timber harvest on fishery resources in the Pacific Northwest (WFPB 1997).
Examples
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Several key contributed chapters engaged in the watershed process of actually asking nursing home residents what they perceived to be the most significant moral problems.
Academic text (1998) -
Released 3 months earlier, it was very much an evolution of the Java 5 watershed.
Blog text (21) -
We use a watershed algorithm to segment the FTLE field, making it find the exact number of flow segments.
Academic text (2011) -
For this, we use a well-established morphological approach to segmentation, based on the Watershed transform.
Academic text (2016) -
The Medici had de facto ruled over Florence for sixty years, and their expulsion marked a watershed in Florentine politics and culture.
Academic text (2011) -
The researchers applied a watershed algorithm to precisely separate objects within the digital image.
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In computer vision, the watershed transform helps identify distinct regions based on variations in color intensity.
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Using a watershed algorithm, the team successfully extracted meaningful patterns from the complex dataset.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Watershed in image processing borrows the land meaning: the method treats a picture like a map and 'floods' low areas to separate regions, so the name shows it splits an image into parts like water dividing into rivers.