1. An article of manufacture comprising: a machine-readable medium; and instructions carried by the medium and operable to cause a programmable processor to perform: obtaining images of objects and metadata associated with each image; automatically initializing a portion of the each image as at least one of a foreground portion and a background portion according to the metadata associated with the each image; segmenting the each image into the foreground portion and the background portion; determining at least one foreground portion depicting an object of the desired characteristics; and providing an image corresponding to the at least one foreground portion.