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

Figure 5

Details of step 3. (a) Input image $v$ and (b) oriented texture and irregular details $v_2$. Note that contrary to what happened in Figure 3(b), all oriented texture is highlighted in $v_2$; however, intrinsic contours (details of face) are lost or left with no definition.

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