1. A method for segmenting one or more candidates in an image having image elements, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a location for one of the candidates in the image, wherein the location is based at a given one of the image elements; computing one or more response values at one or more neighboring image elements that are in a neighborhood of the location; creating one or more image element clusters from the computed response values; and selecting one or more of the image element clusters as object segmentations for one or more of the candidates.