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
US7899247B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 24, 2007 |
| Grant date | Mar 1, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 31, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30176
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
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.
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