ched to the MSERs by fitting ellipses to the
regions. For a more in-depth explanation of the MSER detector, see
our <a href="%pathto:root;api/mser_8h.html">API reference for
MSER</a></p>

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<h1 id="tut.mser.extract">Extracting MSERs</h1>
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<p>Each MSERs can be identified uniquely by (at least) one of its
pixels <code>x</code>, as the connected component of the level set 