SUB CODE: IT – 014/CS034

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B.Tech END PAPER EXAMINATION MAY 2020

MULTIMEDIA COMMNICATION & SYSTEM DESIGN

TIME: 3 Hours MAX MARKS: 100

Note: Attempt all questions, the marks assigned to each

question is indicated at question itself.
Q1. Attempt any four of the following: 5x4

a) What is multimedia? Discuss its various elements.

b) Differentiate between digital audio and MIDI.
c) Explain how Content based retrieval of text and images are done?
d) Write a note on silence compression.
e) Define PCM, DPCM and ADPCM.

f) Write a short note on Copyright and methods of licensing for multimedia.

Q2. Attempt any four of the following: 5x4

a) Write short notes on MIDI.

b) What do you understand by sound capturing? Explain with a suitable example.
c) What is digitization? Where it is used?
d) Explain the following terms with respect to sound:
(i) Amplitude
(ii) Time period
(iii)Pitch
e) What are the stages of a multimedia project development?
f) Explain workflow for Video Messaging and Video Conferencing.

Q3. Attempt any two of the following: 10x2

a) Explain JPEG compression technique.

b) Code the letter “GERMAN” using arithmetic coding.
The probability distribution of the symbol is:
Y E R G N M A F C
0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

c) Discuss with the help of suitable examples / diagram in context to digital audio:
(i) Sampling Variables
(ii) Loss less compression of sound.
Q4. Attempt any two of the following: 10x2

a) Illustrate CMYK color model. How is it different with RGB color model?
Justify your answer.
b) A text message contains five distinct symbols and
their frequencies in the message are as follows :
Symbol: B M P Q R
Frequency: 15 7 6 6 5

Construct the Huffman tree and generate the Huffman code for each symbol.
c) Explain Indexing and retrieval of Video Database.
Q5. Attempt any two of the following: 10x2

a) Explain the procedure of adaptive Huffman coding for compression of text.

b) Discuss LZW technique.
c) (i) Explain MPEG compression in brief.
(ii) What is bitmap and how is it different from vector drawing?