preprocessing
/priːˈprɑsɛsɪŋ/
noun
- The act or process of preparing data or materials before the main processing or analysis.
- The preprocessing step took longer than the actual analysis.
- Image preprocessing includes resizing and color correction.
- Preprocessing of the survey data removed incomplete responses.
verb
- Present participle of preprocess: performing preparation steps in advance.
- He spent the morning preprocessing the text files for the database.
- They are preprocessing the video footage to stabilize the frames.
- The team is preprocessing the sensor readings before feeding them into the algorithm.