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Common to M.E. Computer and Communication/ M.E. Communication Systems Second Semester

251204 MULTIMEDIA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES (Regulation 2010) Time : Three hours

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Answer ALL questions.

PART A (10 2 = 20 marks) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How is information quantified?

Mention the models used in lossless compression schemes. In what way adaptive Huffman coding differ from Huffman coding? What is static and adaptive dictionary?

What is frequency or auditory masking?

Write the expression for the A law and law of companding. Write about the noises that occur in Delta modulation? What are the advantages of DCT over other image transforms? What is error resilience coding? Mention examples. What is the function of the deblocking filter? PART B (5 16 = 80 marks)

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Describe vector quantization theory. Discuss its merits over scalar quantization. (16)

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Estimate the amount of storage required for different classes of multimedia data and justify the need for multimedia compression techniques. (8) Outline the taxonomy of compression techniques for multimedia and briefly explain their salient features. (8)

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M.E./M.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE 2011.

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Maximum : 100 marks

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Explain arithmetic coding. Or

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Describe the steps involved in Huffman encoding. Given the eight symbols A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H with probabilities 1/30, 1/30, 1/30, 2/30, 3/30, 5/30, 5/30, and 12/30, draw the Huffman tree for these symbols and compute the average code size and efficiency. (8) (8)

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Give a detailed description of G.722 audio coding scheme. Or

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Explain the basic idea of dictionary based compression techniques. Explain how the LZW dictionary encoding is done. Illustrate with an example. (16) (16)

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Describe the various steps of JPEG compression process. Enumerate the difference between JPEG and JBIG standards. (16)

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What is sub band coding. Explain the principle of Quadrature mirror filters. (10) Explain the basic concept of wavelet transform for image compression. (6) Explain with block diagram, the MPEG4 video encoder and decoder. (8) Outline the key features of various MPEG standards. Or (8) (8) (8)

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Describe the encoding stages of a H.261 source encoder. Briefly explain the DVI technology for real time compression.

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What are channel vocoders. Describe the concept of CELP vocoders in speech compression. (16)

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