INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Disclosed is a method for accurately and efficiently detecting a modality of input data, including the steps of projecting the input data into a plurality of projection data using each of a plurality of transformation matrix groups U1·(Σ12U2T), generating a plurality of inverse projection data by performing inverse projection of the transformation matrix groups on the plurality of generated projection data, calculating a correlation between the input data and the generated inverse projection data with respect to each transformation matrix group U1·(Σ12U2T), and identifying a modality represented by a transformation matrix group having a highest calculated correlation as the modality of the input data.