Segmentation of digital images using a binary mask

A computer program product, comprising one or more computer readable hardware storage devices having computer readable program code stored therein, said program code containing instructions executable by one or more processors of a computer system to implement a method for segmenting digital images obtained by a digital camera and analyzing the segments by a machine learning model (MLM), said method comprising:

• receiving, by the one or more processors, a first digital image of a scene obtained by a digital camera, said first digital image characterized by a first pixel configuration;
• receiving, by the one or more processors, a second digital image of the scene obtained by a depth sensor, said second digital image characterized by a second pixel configuration;
• said first and second digital images being obtained quasi-simultaneously;
• generating, by the one or more processors using the second digital image, a binary mask characterized by the second pixel configuration, wherein said generating the binary mask comprises selectively digitizing each pixel of the binary mask to 1 or 0 to identify one or more regions of the scene to be subsequently segmented from the first digital image;
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• generating, by the one or more processors by applying the binary mask to the first digital image, one or more segments of the first digital image, each generated segment corresponding to a subset of the pixels of the binary mask that are digitized to 1.

A computer system, comprising one or more processors, one or more memories, and one or more computer readable hardware storage devices, said one or more hardware storage devices containing program code executable by the one or more processors via the one or more memories to implement a method for segmenting digital images obtained by a digital camera and analyzing the segments by a machine learning model (MLM), said method comprising:

• receiving, by the one or more processors, a first digital image of a scene obtained by a digital camera, said first digital image characterized by a first pixel configuration;
• receiving, by the one or more processors, a second digital image of the scene obtained by a depth sensor, said second digital image characterized by a second pixel configuration;
• said first and second digital images being obtained quasi-simultaneously;
• generating, by the one or more processors using the second digital image, a binary mask characterized by the second pixel configuration, wherein said generating the binary mask comprises selectively digitizing each pixel of the binary mask to 1 or 0 to identify one or more regions of the scene to be subsequently segmented from the first digital image;
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• generating, by the one or more processors by applying the binary mask to the first digital image, one or more segments of the first digital image, each generated segment corresponding to a subset of the pixels of the binary mask that are digitized to 1.