1. An imaging apparatus for automatic occlusion detection, comprising: an orientation component configured to determine an orientation of an object from a first image representative of the object; a segmentation component configured to segment a second image representative of the object to generate a segmented image based upon one or more segmentation parameters, at least one of the one or more segmentation parameters dynamically adjusted as a function of the determined orientation of the object; and a feature extraction component configured to identify, from the segmented image, a potential occlusion region in the second image.