A method for computing a dominant class of a scene includes: receiving an input image of a scene; generating a segmentation map of the input image, the segmentation map being labeled with a plurality of corresponding classes of a plurality of classes; computing a plurality of area ratios based on the segmentation map, each of the area ratios corresponding to a different class of the plurality of classes of the segmentation map; and outputting a detected dominant class of the scene based on a plurality of ranked labels based on the area ratios.