1. A method for detecting a pictorial region in a digital image, said method comprising: a) calculating a masked entropy value for each of a plurality of pixels in a digital image; b) determining a confidence level for each of said plurality of pixels based on said masked entropy values; c) determining a seed region based on said masked entropy values wherein said seed region comprises seed-region pixels from said plurality of pixels; and d) growing said seed region based on said confidence levels thereby producing a pictorial region wherein said pictorial region comprises pictorial-region pixels from said plurality of pixels.