Apparatus and method of segmenting an image according to a cost function and/or feature vector 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.