1. A telecommunication device, comprising: an image capture device capturing an image of a local participant in a telecommunication session, the image comprising foreground and background images defined by plural pixels, each of the plural pixels having a pixel magnitude related to a sample of the image at a spatial location of the respective pixel; a processor coupled with the image capture device; and a memory coupled with the processor and storing there a set of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: receive the captured image from the image capture device; segment the plural pixels of the captured image into foreground and background sets of pixels based on spatial coordinates of the pixels and independent of pixel magnitudes; replace the background set of pixels with a template set of pixels to form a new background set of pixels, each selected pixel in the template set of pixels having a different magnitude than a magnitude of the corresponding pixel in the background set of pixels replaced by the selected pixel; combine the new background set of pixels with the foreground set of pixels to form modified image information; and provide the modified image information to a remote endpoint and/or to a display to display the modified image information to the local participant.