Sample Questions: Applied Signal and Image Processing
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1. Define signal. State anapplications of digital signal processing.
2. Define the following terms
a. Periodic signals
b. Impulse noise
c. Spectral decomposition
3. What is periodic noise? Explain.
4. Define Noise. Explain different types of Noise (like white noise, pink noise, black noise,
Gaussian noise, Brownian noise etc.)
5. Explain different types of noise in special types of signals. (Audio, video, Radio, image)
6. What do you mean by uncorrelated uniform noise? Explain.
7. Write a note on integrated spectrum.
8. Define correlation of signal and its significance in digital signal processing. State
applications of signal correlation.
9. Explain serial, cross and auto correlation of digtal signals.
10. Explain the use and benefit of correlation in image signals.
11. Compare and contrast between convolution, cross-correlation and autocorrelation.
12. Write a note on sharpening and smoothing filter in signal processing.
13. Define Digital image.
14. Write a note on representing an image as signals.
15. Write note on
a. Fourier transform
b. Low pass filters
c. High pass filters
16. Differentiate between Sampling and Quantization w.r.t. digital image processing.
Highlight the effect of applying them on a gray scale image.
17. State various applications of Digital Image Processing.
18. Define Image enhancement. Briefly describe the two domains of image enhancements
(spatial and frequency domains)
19. Briefly outline the prominent image enhancement tasks.
20. Differentiate between
a. Image Smoothing and Image Sharpening
b. Unsharp masking and Highboost Filtering
21. What is Image Histogram? How does histogram processing useful in digital image
processing.
22. Define histogram equalization. What is its effect on a grey scale image?
23. What are the principal objectives of image enhancement?
24. What is meant by good image in image enhancement related tasks? Explain.
25. State the significance of Mask/Fileter in image processing. Give and example of image
enhancement mask in spatial domain.
26. State and explain various grey level intensity transformations in image processing.
27. What is the effect of the folowing on the grey scale image?
a. Log transformation
b. Power law transformation
c. Contrast streatching
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Sample Questions: Applied Signal and Image Processing
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internal or final examination of any of the course. Learners are advised to use it for guiding their study only.
28. What is bit-plane slicing? What imaformation does it convey?
29. What is histogram equalization? What is so special about this operation? What are its
advantages?
30. Suitable example on Histogram equalization. For e.g. consider the following image and
obtain the enhanced image using histogram equalization.
31. What is meant by spatial filtering? State the signifinace of neighbourhood operations in
spatial filtering. Give example.
32. Compare between
a. Linear and non-linear spatial filtering methods.
b. Opening and closing
c. Dialation and erosion
d. Average filter and median filter
e. Averaging and Guassian Filter
33. What is the use of correlation in image processing? Explain.
34. Briefly explain with suitable illustration the spatial filtering process.
35. What is the effect of smoothing spatial filters?
36. Explain the effect of low pass filters on an image.
37. State and explain the drwaback of applying box filter on the image. How can we
overcome them?
38. What are non-linear filters? How are they different from linear filters? Give example of
each type of filters.
39. Explain the working of median filter and its merits over avaeraging filter.
40. What is salt and pepper noise? How can you remove them?
41. What are sharpening (High-pass) filters? Explain its types.
42. What is the use of applying derivative filetrs? Explain the effect of first order and second
order derivative filters on a greyscale image.
43. List and describe any three gradiant filters.
44. Define and edge. List various types of edge detectors.
45. Write the spatial mask for the following
a. Prewite Mask
b. Laplacial Mask
c. Sobel Mask
46. What is the effect of applying laplacial mask on a greyscal image?
47. Write a note on different types of image file formats.
48. Briefly explain the image processing pipelilne
49. What is histogram matching? Explain.
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Sample Questions: Applied Signal and Image Processing
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internal or final examination of any of the course. Learners are advised to use it for guiding their study only.
50. Define Image Morphology. List various types of morphological operations on a given
images and its effect.
51. Compare and contrast between
a. Dialation and erosion
b. Opening and closing
c. Thining and skeletonization
d. Guassian Pyramid and Laplacian Pyramid
52. What limitation of dialation and erosion operations? How can you overcome them using
opening and closing operations/filters.
53. Write a note on hit-or-Miss Transforamation.
54. Define Convex Hull. Beriefly describe how do you compute convex hull?
55. How will you remove small holes from the given image? Also atate how will you
remove small objects?
56. Write a note on
a. White and black hot-hats
b. Extracting Boundary of object
57. State and explain the effect of applying morphological operations on greyscale images.
58. What are LoG and DoG filters? How are they useful in edge detection?
59. What are image Pryramids? Explain differen types of Image Pyramids.
60. What are feature detectors? How are they useful in image processing applications?
61. What are structuring element? How are they used in processing boundary and shapes?
62. Write a note on Harris Corner Detector.
63. Briefly explain the use of watershet algorithm fir image segmentation. Explain differet
techniques for watershed algorithm.
64. What do you mean by active contour algorithm? What is it used for? Explain its
working.
65. Write a note on active contour snake models.
66. What are morphological snakes? Explain the two types of morphological snake
methods.
67. Define Image segmentation. Suggest differen approched to image segmenation.
68. Briefly describe Hough transforma for detecting lilnes and circles.
69. Define Thresholding. Explain the idea of multilevel thresholding technique.
70. What is fixed thresholding? What are its merits and demerits?
71. Write a note on
a. Global thresholding
b. Basic Adaptive thresholding
c. Optimal Thresholding
72. Define segmentation. Write a note on region oriented segmentation technique.
73. Briefly explain the region growing and splitting techniques for image segmenattion.
74. Write a note on region growing by pixel aggregation. Give suitable illustration.
75. How is region splitting and merging useful in image segmentation? Explain.
76. Write a note on quad-tree segmentation algorithm for region extraction.
77. Describe the Otsu’ssegmentation method.
78. Briefly outline the segmentation using Grabcut method.
79. What are Haar-like Features? What is it used for? Explain.
80. Write a note on scale invariant transformations.
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