When using cluster analysis, the marketer or analyst will experiment with the data looking for suitable segments. If it was a survey in the airline industry, then some of the image questions might be asked respondents to rate a number of airlines on a range of attributes including: service, reliability, value, friendliness, convenience, professionalism, and so on. The software would then produce an output where each individual responded is allocated to one of these for groups.
The analyst would then have to further review the data and identify why the software has allocated these respondents to the same group that is, what do they have in common? As you can see, in this case we have three segments, the first being value based, the second being service oriented and the third being having the need for reliability. Therefore, we have constructed three segments using a benefits sought segmentation base.
This process of looking at the output from different variables continues until the marketer has a segmentation which helps provide a useful way of looking at the market for the firm. The second main approach to segmentation is by using a segmentation tree. This approach is helpful when valid statistical or research data is not available.
The following diagram is a simple example for a segmentation tree. As you can see, in this approach the overall market branches out like a tree. If you have studied finance or economics, you may have also constructed a decision tree, this is a similar concept. The overall market forms the tree trunk, which then branches off into the first level of segmentation in this case, a demographic segmentation using three age groups. Then these main branches are segmented into a behavioral segmentation base frequency of eating out.
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Learn how your comment data is processed. Image segmentation Image segmentation is the process of partitioning an image in multiple segments. Here we present the three task of image segmentation present in the industry: Instance segmentation: in instance segmentation each individual object of the image is annotated at the pixel level.
It is the equivalent of pixel accurate bounding boxes. Semantic segmentation: in semantic segmentation requires each pixel of an image to be associated to a semantic label without distinction of instances. Panoptic segmentation: in panoptic segmentation is a combination of instance segmentation and semantic segmentation, each pixels is associated to a semantic label taking into account each instance of objects within the image In addition to being time consuming, image segmentation is also not safe against human errors especially when taking into account the tiredness of annotators after labeling multiple images!
Tooling for image segmentation We can class the tools used to perform image segmentation in three categories: Digital brush and pen In its most classic form pixel accurate segmentation can be obtained using a digital pen or digital brush that allow the user to manually annotate the different entities of an image.
Segmentation based tools Tools based on superpixels segmentation displays pre-computed clusters of pixels on the image allowing users to annotate an object in only a couple clicks. Newer superpixels algortihms are able to clearly display boundaries of objects left As shown on the previous pictures adaptive superpixels allow for a high precision segmentation of entities within a picture.
Display format Autonomous driving Satellite imagery Crop detection Cell detection Superpixels outperform deep learning on most use cases From the presented experiments we can conclude the following: Deep learning powered tools are somewhat efficient but depending on the use case their performance is mitigated. As an example, we did not display the results of those tool on the satellite image as we mostly had to use the digital pen to adjust the generated annotations.
While performing the annotations we observed that those tools usually require too many clicks to obtain a decent segmentation of an object. First you have to place the bounding box or points around the object and then you need to adapt the boundaries so that it fits perfectly. These steps are time consuming and costly when annotating multiple objects.
Superpixels are instead really efficient in most use cases.
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