| CPC G06T 5/00 (2013.01) [G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01)] | 11 Claims |

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1. A color image inpainting method comprising:
obtaining a color image of an object to be recognized, the color image including a missing portion where at least part of image information is missing;
obtaining an infrared image of the object;
identifying the missing portion in the color image; and
after the missing portion in the color image is identified, inpainting the missing portion in the color image identified in the identifying to obtain an inpainted color image of the object,
wherein the inpainting includes inpainting the missing portion by using information which is obtained only from a part of the infrared image, the part corresponding to the missing portion in the color image.
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