Abstract：An image can be decomposed into texture part and cartoon part adhering to different geometric features. An image fusion method based on these two features is proposed in this paper. A cartoon dictionary and a texture dictionary are learned from the sample images based on their different cartoon and texture features. In the fusion process, the cartoon and texture parts of the source image are fused using the specific cartoon and texture dictionary respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed method is very effective.
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