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Question Paper Code :

Reg. No. :

Elective
Applied Electronics

M.E. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010

AP 9251 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

(Common to M.E. Communication Systems)
(Regulation 2009)

Maximum : 100 Marks

Time : Three hours

Answer ALL questions

PART A (10 2 = 20 Marks)

State 2D sampling theorem.

2.

What is meant by dither?

3.

What is the advantage is Walsh transform over Fourier transform?

4.

List the properties of Haar transform.

5.

What is median filtering? State its properties.

6.

What are the advantages of Kalman filters for image restoration over that of

1.

Wiener filters?

What are the three stages of the canny edge detector?

8.

What is meant by supervised learning in image segmentation?

7.

10.

What is the difference between zonal coding and threshold coding?

PART B (5 16 = 80 Marks)
(a)

(i)

Draw the block diagram consisting all the elements of a digital

image processing system and explain the functions of each block in
detail.
(9)

(ii)

Explain the working principles of digital camera.

Or

(b)

11.

What is the need for image compression?

9.

(i)

Explain the practical limitations of sampling and reconstruction. (5)

(ii)

Explain image quantization.

(7)

(iii) What do you mean by 2D system? Explain its properties.

(i)

What is meant by energy compaction and energy conservation in

image transform? Explain the significance of energy compaction in
image processing.
(7)

(ii)

Define 2D discrete cosine transform and list its properties.

(a)

(4)

12.

(7)

(9)

Or

13.

(a)

(i)

Explain how the SVD representation of an image can be obtained?(8)

(ii)

Define slant transform and list its properties.

(i)

Explain the process of Histogram modification for contrast

enhancement.
(8)

(ii)

Discuss smoothing filters used for reducing noise and blurring in an

image.
(4)

(b)

(8)

(iii) Briefly explain Harmonic-mean filters for image enhancement.

(4)

(i)

Explain the model of image degradation process and discuss its role
in image restoration.
(6)

(b)

Or

(ii)

Explain the image restoration scheme using inverse filtering. What

are its limitations?
(6)

(iii) What is gray-level interpolation?

2

(4)

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(a)

(i)

Explain image segmentation based on amplitude thresholding.

(ii)

Explain various
segmentation.

edge

detection

techniques

15.

(a)

image
(8)

(i)

Explain the Bayes classifier for a Gaussian density function.

(5)

(ii)

Explain the important features of minimum distance classifiers. (5)

(iii) Explain neural network approach to pattern recognition.

(6)

(i)

What is meant by lossless and lossy compression?

(3)

(ii)

Explain run length coding used for image compression.

(5)

(b)

in

Or

used

(8)

14.

(iii) Explain the data compression scheme using transform coding with
a block diagram.
(8)
Or
Explain tree-search vector quantization for data compression.

(6)

(ii)

Explain the features of JPEG 2000 standards.

(6)

(i)

(b)

(iii) Write short note on EZW.

(4)

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