A display apparatus includes a background image estimator configured to restructure a plurality of pixel signals of a panel image corresponding to a plurality of pixels arranged in an (n×m) matrix array into a row dataset and a column dataset and generate a row background image and a column background image with a Mura defect removed from the panel image using the row dataset and the column dataset through a Principal Component Analysis (PCA), a Mura image generator configured to generate a row binary image and a column binary image including a background and the Mura defect using differences between the panel image and the row background image and between the panel image and the column background image.