Apparatus and method of segmenting an image in an image coding and/or decoding system

摘要

An apparatus usable in an image encoding and/or decoding system includes a segmentation unit (130) to convert a first image of a first resolution into a second image of a second resolution, to segment the second image of the second resolution with one or more blocks of a binary mask layer having a foreground and a background, and to convert the segmented second image into a third image of a third resolution as a segmented image.