METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING IMAGE ELEMENTS

摘要

A method, system, and machine-readable medium for classifying an image element as one of a plurality of categories, including assigning the image element based on a ratio between an unoccluded perimeter of the image element and an occluded perimeter of the image element and coding the image element accordi ng to a coding scheme associated with the category to which the image element i s classified. Exemplary applications include image compression, where categori es include image foreground and background layers.