Set No.

Code No: RR410507

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2006

DIGITAL SPEECH & IMAGE PROCESSING SPEECH & IMAGE
PROCESSING
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology
and Electronics & Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

1. What are the elements required to acquire digital images? Explain in detail about
various imaging systems.
[16]
2. (a) Derive the transformation function applicable for histogram equalization.
(b) What are the advantages of histogram equalization.

[10+6]

3. (a) What are the applications of high-pass filters and low-pass filters.
(b) What is the expression for performing auto correlation. Explain the terms
involved in it?
[8+8]
4. Explain various discontinuity detection methods in detail with suitable examples.
[16]
5. (a) Explain the characteristics of averaging mask and Laplacean masks. Show the
corresponding masks.
(b) In a given application, an averaging mask is applied to input images to reduce
noise and then a Laplaceian mask is applied to enhance small details. What
would be the effect if the order of these operations is reversed.
[8+8]
6. (a) With examples, explain how morphology operations are used in region filling
(b) Discuss the various applications for gray scale morphology.

[8+8]

7. (a) What do you mean by relative address coding?

(b) Differentiate one dimentional and two dimentional Run length coding.
(c) What are the advantages of white block skipping?

[6+6+4]

8. How statistical coding is differentiated from spatial coding? Give one example for
both the coding. Explain.
[16]

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Code No: RR410507

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2006

DIGITAL SPEECH & IMAGE PROCESSING SPEECH & IMAGE
PROCESSING
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology
and Electronics & Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

1. With a brief note on satellite imagery technique, explain in detail about various
methods of acquiring images from satellite.
[16]
2. (a) Explain histogram equalization in detail.
(b) What do you mean by histogram matching? Explain.

[8+8]

3. Explain how the computations are performed with spatial filters on the input image.
What are the corresponding effects of the filters on the input image?
[16]
4. Explain various discontinuity detection methods in detail with suitable examples.
[16]
5. A sample image of size 5 5 is shown below:

3 2 3 4
0 2 4 3

3 4 2 1

4 1 3 3
5 4 5 4

1
7
0
7
6

Apply the mask corresponds to the Laplacean function of the form

2 f = 4Z5 (Z2 + Z4 + Z6 + Z8 ) .
and show the truncated output image of size 33.

[16]

6. (a) With necessary diagrams explain the operation of opening.

(b) Let A and B are two sets in Z 2 . Show that

AB = (A)b
bB

[8+8]

7. For a 512*512 image of your choice design DPCM coders using mean square predictors of orders up to four. Implement the coders for B=3 and compare the
reconstructed images visually as well as on the basis of their mean square error and
entropies.
[16]
8. (a) Mention different types of coding used in error free compression.
(b) Discuss about Huffman coding.

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[8+8]

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Code No: RR410507

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2006

DIGITAL SPEECH & IMAGE PROCESSING SPEECH & IMAGE
PROCESSING
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology
and Electronics & Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Define range image.

(b) What are the steps needed to obtain geometric information from a range
image?
(c) Explain how Light Detecting and Ranging(LIDAR) is useful in acquiring range
images?
[4+6+6]
2. (a) Explain why the discrete histogram equalization technique does not in general,
yield a flat histogram.
(b) Suppose that a digital image is subjected to histogram equalization, show that
a second pass of histogram equalization will produce exactly same result as
first pass.
[8+8]
3. (a) Discuss the characteristics of averaging and weighted averaging filters. Give
an example for each kind.
(b) What is meant by directional smoothing.

[10+6]

4. Write short notes on the following:

(a) Optimal thresholding
(b) Role of Illumination in thresholding.

[8+8]

5. Design a technique for detecting gaps of length ranging between 1 and L pixels in
line segments of a binary image. Assume that the lines are 1 pixel thick.
[16]
6. (a) With necessary diagrams explain the operation of opening.
(b) Let A and B are two sets in Z 2 . Show that

AB = (A)b
bB

[8+8]

7. (a) What is false contouring?

(b) Differentiate
i. compression and decompression
ii. coding and decoding and
iii. mapper and demapper
(c) How the word distance is related with hamming code?
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[3+9+4]

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8. (a) What is meant by statistical coding? Classify.

(b) Explain briefly about the types of statistical coding.

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[6+10]

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Code No: RR410507

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2006

DIGITAL SPEECH & IMAGE PROCESSING SPEECH & IMAGE
PROCESSING
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering, Information Technology
and Electronics & Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Write a short note on image model.

(b) Explain in detail about different types of CCD sensors used for image acquisition.
[6+10]
2. For the following image of size 3 3, derive the output image
(a) after applying histogram equalization one time and
(b) after applying histogram equalization two times.

[8+8]

0 0 2
5 1 2
0 3 4

3. (a) What are the steps involved in the design of median filter.
(b) List the circumstances in which the median filters are most suitable.
(c) Distinguish the averaging and median filters.

[6+4+6]

4. Explain various discontinuity detection methods in detail with suitable examples.

[16]
5. Discuss about the following edge detection techniques
(a) Laplacean
(b) Laplacean of Gaussian (LOG) and
(c) Zero crossing.

[5+6+5]

6. Explain about the following morphological operations used in gray scale image
representation.
(a) Dilation
(b) Erosion
(c) Opening
(d) Closing.

[4+4+4+4]

7. (a) What is false contouring?

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(b) Differentiate
i. compression and decompression
ii. coding and decoding and
iii. mapper and demapper

(c) How the word distance is related with hamming code?

[3+9+4]

8. (a) Explain about

i. slope overload
ii. granular noise.
(b) List out the advandages and drawbacks of different types of lossy compression
techniques.
[8+8]

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