The invention discloses a medium-long wave dual-band infrared image fusion method. The method comprises the following steps: 1, ; reading an image to be fused, processing a Y channel, extracting detail features of a medium-wave image, extracting difference features of the medium-wave image and a long-wave image, calculating reference mean values of a Cb channel and a Cr channel, calculating reference variances of the Cb channel and the Cr channel, calculating a mean value and a variance of a source image, transferring colors, superposing the features, and outputting a final fused image. The medium-long wave infrared image fusion algorithm provided by the invention is based on a color transfer theory, does not need to refer to that the image has a good visual effect in each scene, has extremely high environmental adaptability, has more radiation characteristics and detail characteristics, and is easy to popularize and apply.