A Decomposition and Noise Removal Method Combining Diffusion Equation and Wave Atoms for Textured Images

Figure 3

Details of step 2. (a) Input image $v$ and (b) intrinsic contours and parts of the texture, here represented by $v_1$. Note in $v_1$ that although there are texture losses close to the neck and background, face intrinsic contours are preserved, such as eyes, mouth, and hair.

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