1. A method for identifying an attribute of an object represented in an image comprising data defining a predetermined spatial granulation for resolving the object, where the object is in contact with another object, the method comprising: identifying the data whose values indicate they correspond to locations completely within the object; determining a first contribution to the attribute provided by the data; identifying additional data whose values indicate they correspond to locations that are partially within the object; interpolating second contributions to the attribute from the values of the additional data; and finding the attribute of the object from the first contribution and second contributions.