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Module 1
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No.
1 Distinguish between a raster and a vector image. 3 CO1 L2

Define what is “Weber ratio” and discuss what is meant by brightness L1

2 3 CO1
adaptation in human visual system.

3 What is brightness discrimination? 3 CO1 L1

Give the practical limitations in sampling and reconstruction of L3

4 3 CO1
images.

Describe the terms: brightness, Machband effect, hue and L2

5 5 CO1
saturation with respect to a digital image.
Define 2-D Sampling theorem and discuss what is meant by fold over L1
6 10 CO1
frequencies

7 Explain the working principle of Vidicon 5 CO1 L2

8 Explain Differentiate between brightness and contrast 5 CO1 L2

9 Explain Mach band effect. 5 CO1 L2

10 Define Adjacency, Digital Path, Connectivity and Region 8 CO1 L1

11 Explain simultaneous contrast. 5 CO1 L2

12 How a digital image is represented? 5 CO1 L2

13 What are called 4-neighbors of a pixel? 5 CO1 L1

14 What are diagonal neighbours of a pixel? 5 CO1 L1

15 Define 4-connectivity. 3 CO1 L1

16 Define 8-connectivity 3 CO1 L1

17 Define m-connectivity. 3 CO1 L1

18 Explain the working principle of Vidicon. 12 CO1 L2

19 Explain about human visual system. (Not in syllabus). 12 CO1 L2

Explain the function of an image processing system. L2

20 12 CO1
(Acquisition, Enhancement, restoration, Segmentation, . . .)

21 State and prove Sampling theorem for images (2D signals). 12 CO1 L1

22 With neat diagram, explain the elements of an image processing 12 CO1 L1

system. (Image acquisition element, Image Storage Mechanism,

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Image Display)

Explain the function of an image processing system. L2

23 12 CO1
(Acquisition, Enhancement, restoration, Segmentation, . . .)
24 Explain different types of image file format 12 CO1 L2

25 Explain different Colour models. 12 CO1 L2

Module 2
Sl.
Question Marks CO BL
No.
1 Give the names of image transforms 3 CO2

2 What is the need for image transforms? 3 CO2 L1

3 Give the expression for Walsh transform of a 2D signal. 3 CO2 L1

Give the expression for Discrete Cosine transform of a 2D L2

4 3 CO2
signal.

5 Explain row and column ordering of matrices. 3 CO2 L2

6 State and prove the properties of 2D DFT 5 CO2 L2

Find the kernel/basis of DFT, Walsh, Hadamard, Haar, Slant L3

7 Transforms, DCT and how to find out 2D DFT using that 5 CO2
kernel?

Why KL transform is called signal dependent transform? What L3

8 5 CO2
are its advantages and disadvantages?

9 How Singular value Decomposition is done on images? 5 CO2 L2

10 How is image compression possible using SVD? Explain. 5 CO2 L2

11 What are Toeplitz, circulant and block matrices? 5 CO2 L1

12 With examples, give the classification of systems. 12 CO2 L2

13 Explain Hadamard transform and Walsh transform. 5 CO2 L1

14 Determine the DCT of the 1D sequence x(n) = {11,22,33,44}. 5 CO2 L1

15 Determine the kernel of Haar transform of order N=4. 5 CO2 L1

1. Write short note on KL transform. Determine the K L transform L2

16 10 CO2
of

172. Determine the singular value decomposition of 10 CO2 L1

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Module 3

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Why is image enhancement important? Give the main L2

1 classification of enhancement techniques (Spatial and frequency 3 CO3
domain).
2 Why image enhancement in frequency domain is required? 3 CO3 L2

Give the arithmetic operations used in images (Addition, L1

3 3 CO3
subtraction, multiplication, etc.).
4 Explain spatial domain methods for image enhancement 5 CO3 L1

What are the different types of point operation in image L1

5 5 CO3
enhancement?

What is histogram? Why histogram equalization is used in L1

6 5 CO3
image enhancement?
7 Explain the concept of spatial filtering with an example 5 CO3 L2

8 What are the drawbacks of averaging filter? 5 CO3 L2

What is the advantage of Median filter over Mean (Average) L1

9 5 CO3
filter?

Explain about spatial domain high pass filtering or image L2

10 5 CO3
sharpening

What do you mean by bit plane slicing concept used in image L2

11 5 CO3
enhancement?

With block diagram, explain homomorphic filtering used in L1

12 5 CO3
image enhancement

Explain different types of point operation in image L2

13 12 CO3
enhancement?

Explain the types of linear and non-linear gray-level L2

14 12 CO3
transformations

Explain the types of spatial filters used (Mean, Median, Barlett, L2

15 12 CO3
Gaussian . . .).
16 With neat sketches, explain about different types of filters used 12 CO3 L2

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in image enhancement in frequency domain

Module 4

1 Explain the image restoration mechanism using a Weiner filter. 7 CO4 L2

Explain how a degraded image can be restored using an inverse L2

2 7 CO4
filter. Explain its limitations.

3 Explain any two geometric transformations on an image 4 CO4 L2

Distinguish between image enhancement and image restoration. L1

4 4 CO4
Give an example for each

5 Write a short note on spatial transformations on images 5 CO4 L1

6 Explain Inverse transformation on images 5 CO4 L2

Explain how the blur caused by uniform linear motion is L2

7 6 CO4
removed

8 Differentiate Unconstrained and constrained restoration 8 CO4 L3

Module 5

Write the main classification of image segmentation techniques L1

1 3 CO5
(global and local).

What are the 2 approaches that lead to the classification of L1

2 image segmentation techniques – Region based segmentation 3 CO5
and Edge based segmentation
3 What are the classifications of edges in images? 3 CO5 L1

4 Explain about Region based Segmentation and types 5 CO5 L2

5 What do you mean by clustering? Explain the types. 5 CO5 L1

6 Give the details of any edge detection operator. 5 CO5 L1

7 Explain about canny edge detector 5 CO5 L2

8 What are the categories of edge linking? 5 CO5 L2

9 What is Hough transform? 5 CO5 L2

Explain about the active contour method for edge linking L2

10 5 CO5
(Greedy algorithm).
11 Explain about Region based Segmentation and types. 12 CO5 L2

What do you mean by clustering? How K-means clustering is L1

12 12 CO5
done? Explain it using an example

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Explain the image segmentation based on thresholding and its L2

13 12 CO5
types.
14 Explain different edge detection operators used. 12 CO5 L2

15 Explain about Hough transform. 12 CO5 L2

Module 6

1 What is the need for compression? 3 CO6 L2

2 What is the limitation of Huffman coding? 3 CO6 L1

What is the concept of Dictionary based technique for image L1

3 3 CO6
compression?

4 What are steps involved in JPEG image compression standard. 3 CO6 L1

5 Explain the types of redundancies present in images. 5 CO6 L2

6 Give the main classification of image compression schemes. 5 CO6 L1

7 With an example explain run-length coding. 5 CO6 L1

8 Write the steps to perform Huffman coding, arithmetic coding 5 CO6 L1

Give the classification of Dictionary based technique for image L1

9 5 CO6
compression

With a block diagram, explain the concept of Transform based L1

10 5 CO6
image compression

11 Which transform is the best for image compression? Explain 5 CO6 L1

12 Explain about vector quantization. 5 CO6 L2

13 Which transform is used in JPEG 2000? Explain JPEG 2000. 5 CO6 L2

14 Explain JPEG standard 12 CO6 L2

15 Explain MPEG standard. MPEG 1, 2, 4 and 7. 12 CO6 L2

16 Explain wavelet based image compression 12 CO6 L2

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