Fig. 1 Flow chart of the proposed algorithm
Fig. 2 Input images (a) LET image (b) SET image
Fig. 3 Transfer function using LET image characteristics
Fig. 4 Transfer function using SET image characteristics
Fig. 5 Histogram of LET image
Fig. 6 Histogram of SET image
Fig. 7 Histogram of blended image
Fig. 8 Result images (a) blended image (b) proposed result image
Fig. 9 Histogram of proposed result image
Fig. 10 Hardware block diagram
Table. 1 Summary of Xilinx Synthetic Result
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