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

  • US 20080175476A1
  • Filed: 01/24/2007
  • Published: 07/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus usable in an image encoding and decoding system, comprising:

  • a segmentation unit to divide an image into one or more blocks, to segment the blocks of the image into a binary mask layer of a foreground and a background according to a cost optimized function and a feature vector of the respective blocks, so as to generate an segmentation image.

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