Neuro fuzzy and punctual kriging based filter for image restoration

► A hybrid image restoration method using punctual kriging, ANN and fuzzy logic. ► Type-I and type-II fuzzy sets and NFC are employed for selecting pixels that need estimation. ► Genetic algorithm is used to select optimum features for classification using NFC. ► ANN is employed to avoid matrix inversion failure and negative weights problems. ► Performance is analyzed using different image quality measures on 450 images.