ADISHANKARA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

KALADY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

QUESTION BANK

SUB. NAME : DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

SEM : VII

Prepared by
DIVYA V CHANDRAN (AP- ECE- ASIET)
Email ID: divya.ec@adishankara.ac.in

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MODULE 1
3 mark questions:
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What is quantization? How it is employed in digitizing an image?

Explain Machband effect and its applications?
State and explain Nyquist criteria?
Explain how an image is represented in a 2D space in digital format?
Explain different types of images?
Explain about image formation model?
Explain any two image file formats?
Distinguish between a raster and a vector image?
What do you mean by aliasing in the context of image sampling?
Describe the different applications of digital image processing?
When should we use PNG file format?

5 mark questions:
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What do you mean by the term image file format? Mention some of the frequently used
image file formats?
2 Compare JPEG, TIFF, and GIF image file formats with reference to features like number
of bits, compression etc.
3 State and prove the 2D sampling theorem?
4 Explain resolution and types of resolution?
5 Describe the importance of brightness , hue and saturation in Digital Image Processing?
6 Describe the importance of brightness and contrast?
7 Explain what do you mean by digital image and explain its types?
8 Explain the term file format and write a note on Jpeg file format?
9 Explain the 2 D sampling concept and violation of sampling theorem?
10 Describe about the components of Digital Image Processing?
11 Explain the laws associated with vision?
12 Differentiate photopic and scotopic vision
12 mark questions:
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Describe the elements of an image processing system ?

Describe different steps involved in processing an image with the help of block diagram
of a digital image processing system?
With the help of suitable example, explain how an image can be reconstructed from its
samples?
State and prove 2 D sampling theorem and describe the sampling of 2 D bandlimited
images?
Explain about the image file formats?
Explain 1) JPEG

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2) GIF
3) TIFF
4) BMP

MODULE 2
3 mark questions
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Describe the Z transform and need for transform?

Define 2D DFT. List its properties
Determine whether the 2 D signal x(n1,n2)= cos (/2 n1+ n2) is periodic or not . If
periodic , find the fundamental period?
Determine whether the system described by the following i/p -o/p relation is shift
invariant or not? y(n1, n2)= x(2 n1, 2 n2)
Check whether the DFT matrix is unitary or not?
Compute the 2D Z transform of x(n1, n2)= an1 (n1-n2)u(n1,n2) and find ROC
Describe 2D DFT and inverse 2D DFT
Describe walsh transform?
What are the features of KL transform?

5 mark questions
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Perform 2D linear convolution between two signals x(m,n)= 1 2 3

456

and h(m,n)= 1
1
1

using matrix method?

2 Determine the Z Transform of x(n1,n2)=(1/2)n1(1/2)n2u(n1,n2) and find ROC
3 Explain the flowchart which describes about the linear correlation between two matrices
x(m,n) & h(m,n) through matrix method
4 Explain the circular correlation through transform method with an example?
5 Explain about convolution and correlation property of 2D DFT?
6 Determine whether the given matrix is unitary or not? A=1/2

1 1
1 1

7 Compute the 2D Discrete fourier transform of a 4 x 4 grayscale image f(m,n) shown

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f(m,n) = 1 2

3 4

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2 3

12 mark questions:
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Describe Z transform and its properties?

Compute the linear correlation between two given matrices
x ( m , n )=

[ ]

[ ]

1 1
1 1
h( m , n)
1 1
1 1

and cross correlation between

x ( m , n )=

[ ]
1 1
1 1

and

[ ]

h ( m. n ) = 1 2
3 4

4 2
1 3

Perform KL T for the matrix X=

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Perform SVD for the given image:

Explain about 2D DFT and its properties?
Explain about i) Z Transform
ii) 2D DFT
iii) Walsh Transform
iv) Hadamard Transform

MODULE 3
3 MARK QUESTIONS
1. What is the value of the central pixel (marked by a round ) if it is smoothened by a 3x3
box filter?
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Explain high boost filtering

Explain the role of smoothing and sharpening filters.
What are digital negatives? Mention the use of it.
What do you meant by graylevel slicing?
Explain about different linear graylevel transformations

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7. Describe about image enhancement?

5 MARK QUESTIONS
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Explain about any three nonlinear graylevel transformations?

Write notes on homomorphic filters
Explain about sharpening filters?
Describe about LPF
Compute the median value of the marked pixels using 3x3 mask
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12 MARK QUESTIONS
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Describe the image enhancement through point operation?

List different histogram image enhancement techniques. Explain each one in detail?
What is a median filter ? Explain its operation on a 2D noisy image with uniform noise
Explain different gray level transformations?
Describe about local or neighbourhood operations?
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Describe about spatial filtering?
OR
Describe about smoothing and sharpening filters( LPF & HPF) in spatial domain?

6. Describe about the image enhancement in frequency domain?

7. Explain about homomorphic filters and derive the output equation with an example?

MODULE 4
3 MARK QUESTIONS
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Define image segmentation and its classification

Describe about edges and its classification?
Explain about region splitting?
Explain split and merge algorithm?
Write short notes on clustering?

5 MARK QUESTIONS
1. Compare canny edge detector with LOG edge detector?
2. Write notes on LOG and DOG edge detector?
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3. What are the three stages of canny edge detector? Briefly explain each phase?
4. Explain Hough transform and any one application?
5. Explain about the image segmentation by region growing method?
12 MARK QUESTIONS
1. Explain about the region approaches to image segmentation?
2. Explain different methods / techniques of image segmentation?
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Explain i)Clustering ii) Thresholding
3. Describe any five edge detectors?
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Explain about the edge segmentation / edge approach to image segmentation

MODULE 5
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Define image compression and need for compression?

Write notes on transform based compression?
Write notes on wavelet based compression?
Write notes on dictionary based compression
Explain run length coding?

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Construct Shannon-fano coding for the word MUMMY

Explain Huffman coding and its limitations?
Explain the analytical method of arithemetic coding?( encoding & decoding algorithms)
Explain predictive coding?
Perform runlength coding of the given sequences
(i)
111110001100100
(ii)

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12 MARK QUESTIONS
1. Explain about image compression standards( JPEG, GIFetc along with their compression
algorithm)?
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2. A source emits four symbols {a,b,c,d} with the probabilities 0.4,0.2,0.1, and 0.3
respectively. Construct arithmetic coding to encode and decode the word dad
3. Describe the LZW compression method and code the sequence ABABBABCABABBA
4. Give the Huffman coding algorithm: Find the set of code words &average code word
length using Huffman coding scheme for a set of input graylevels with corresponding
probabilities shown below:
i/p:
s1
s2
s3
s4
s5
s6
s7
s8
prob: 0.02 0.15 0.03 0.15 0.05 0.20 0.10 0.30
5. Describe about vector quantization and types?
6. Explain about Dictionary based image compression with an example.
7. Write a short note on wavelet based image compression
8. Give the Shannon-fano coding algorithm and code the given symbols A,B,C,D with
corresponding probabilities: 15/39 , 7/39, 6/39,6/39,5/39 using Shannon-fano coding
algorithm. Also find the efficiency & redundancy of the code?

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