In recent years, low-rank based tensor completion, which is a higher-order
extension of matrix completion, has received considerable attention. However,
the low-rank assumption is not sufficient for the recovery of visual data, such
as color and 3D images, where the ratio of missing data is extremely high. In
this paper, we consider "smoothness" constraints as well as low-rank
approximations, and propose an efficient algorithm for performing tensor
completion that is particularly powerful regarding visual data. The proposed
method admits significant advantages, owing to the integration of smooth
PARAFAC decomposition for incomplete tensors and the efficient selection of
models in order to minimize the tensor rank. Thus, our proposed method is
termed as "smooth PARAFAC tensor completion (SPC)." In order to impose the
smoothness constraints, we employ two strategies, total variation (SPC-TV) and
quadratic variation (SPC-QV), and invoke the corresponding algorithms for model
learning. Extensive experimental evaluations on both synthetic and real-world
visual data illustrate the significant improvements of our method, in terms of
both prediction performance and efficiency, compared with many state-of-the-art
tensor completion methods.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure