This paper demonstrates how Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) can be used for face hallucination. Different with other KPCA-based methods, KPCA in this paper handles samples from two subspaces, namely the high-and lowresolution image spaces. As KPCA learns not only linear features but also non-linear features, it is anticipated that more detailed facial features could be synthesized. We propose a new model and give theoretical analysis on when it is applicable. Algorithm is then developed for implementation. Experiments are conducted to compare the proposed method with the existing well-known face hallucination methods in terms of visual quality and mean square error. Our results are better and encouraging.
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