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 (230) 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.