KCFA-based missing area restoration including new priority estimation

A kernel cross-modal factor analysis (KCFA) based missing area restoration method including a new priority estimation scheme is presented in this paper. The proposed method estimates latent relationship between missing areas and their neighboring areas by deriving projection matrices minimizing their errors in the latent space based on KCFA. This latent relationship represented by the derived projection matrices is optimal for accurately restoring missing areas within the target image. Furthermore, the proposed method adopts a new priority estimation scheme which determines the restoration order of missing areas. Specifically, this priority is estimated based on the criterion representing the restoration performance derived from KCFA, and it enables adaptive selection of missing areas successfully restored by our method. Consequently, it becomes feasible to accurately perform the restoration of missing areas by using the proposed KCFA-based method. Experimental results show subjective and quantitative improvements of the proposed method over previously reported restoration methods.