Multi-resolution analysis in image segregation

An automated, computerized method for processing an image, comprising the steps of:

• providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory;
• forming a set of selectively varied representations of the image file each expressed as a multi-band representation with each band corresponding to a segment of the electro-magnetic spectrum;
• and
• performing an image segregation operation on at least one preselected representation of the image of the image file to generate intrinsic images corresponding to the image, such that at least one of the intrinsic images comprises a material representation and at least another one of the intrinsic images comprises an illumination representation independent of said at least one of the intrinsic images comprising a material representation, wherein the image segregation operation is performed on the bands of the at least one preselected image directly by utilizing a spatio-spectral operator/constraint/solver model.