Figure 3.7. This branch-to-branch hopping repeats until mutual best fitting partners are
found
The procedure continues with another image object’s best neighbor. The procedure iter-
ates until no further image object mergers can be realized without violating the maximum
allowed homogeneity of an image object.
With any given average size of image objects, multiresolution segmentation yields good
abstraction and shaping in any application area. However, it has higher memory require-
ments and significantly slower performance than some other segmentation techniques and
therefore is not always the best choice.