APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SEGMENTING AN IMAGE AND/OR RECEIVING A SIGNAL REPRESENTING THE SEGMENTED IMAGE IN AN IMAGE CODING AND/OR DECODING SYSTEM

摘要

An apparatus usable in an image encoding and decoding system includes segmentation unit to divide an image into one or more blocks, to segment the blocks into a binary mask layer of a foreground and a background according to a cost optimized function and a feature vector to generate a segmentation image according to the segmented blocks.