Digital Image Processing Question Bank
1. With an example, explain the concept of histogram equalization.
2. Define neighbours of a pixel.
3. Write the difference between image restoration and image enhancement.
4. What is the advantage of color in image processing applications?
5. Explain the following two properties of 2D-DFT:
i) Convolution ii) Periodicity
6. Explain image smoothing using ideal lowpass filters.
7. Explain the statement “A median filter is only 50 % efficient”.
8. Compute the Haar transform of the 2 x 2 image
9. Explain about image sampling and Quantization.
10.Explain image sharpening using Laplacian operator.
11. Find the Haar transformation matrix for N = 2 and N=4.
12. Find the convolution of matrices A and h.
1 3 2
A = #5 6 7* h = [1 2 1]
1 2 1
13.Describe the different image noise models commonly used.
14. What is log transformation? How it is useful in image processing?
15. What is meant by moiré patterns? Explain.
16. Describe image formation in the eye with brightness adaptation and discrimination.
17. Write short notes on Haar Transforms.
18. Define D4 and D8 distances.
19. Define brightness, hue and saturation.
20. Light Receptors in the eye.
21.What are primary and secondary colours?
22.What is Tristimulus Value as regards to colour image processing?
23.Discuss briefly the different colour models.
24.What is the drawback of an inverse filter?
25. How does a Wiener filter score over an inverse filter? Derive the expression for a Parametric Weiner Filter.
26. What is the need of image transform? List out various transform used in image processing.
27. Define brightness, hue and saturation.
28. State 2D sampling theorem and explain about aliasing in images.
29. Explain the following terms: Adjacency (ii) Connectivity (iii) Regions (iv) Boundaries
30. Draw the functional block diagram of general image compression system and explain it
31. What is the drawback of an inverse filter?
32. How does a Wiener filter score over an inverse filter? Derive the expression for a Parametric
Weiner Filter.
33. How to find Gaussian Filter using Pascals Triangle.
34. Different Filters and its uses.
35. Show a 3X3 mean filter is a low pass filter.
36. Explain the following morphological operations: (i) Erosion (ii) Dilation
37. Explain the function of image sensor.
38. Explain the theory of sampling of an image.
39. Explain the mid -rise and mid-tread quantizer.
40. Define histogram equalization. Explain the procedure for histogram equalization.
41. Explain about Huffman coding by taking an example.
42. Write the properties of DCT.
43. Discuss about Roberts, Prewitt and Sobel edge detectors.
44. Explain about Run Length coding with an example.
45.What is the role of image enhancement step? How it differs from image restoration?
46. With neat diagram explain fundamental steps in digital image processing.
47. What is image sensing & digitization? Specify objectives of image enhancement technique.
48. What is the need of image transform. Define DFT?
49. Discuss image enhancement using point operations.
50. Explain histogram equalization with example.
51. Explain RGB color model.
52. Explain HIS color model.
53. Write note on Run length coding.
54. Define neighbors of pixel. What is Image Negative?
55. What is the purpose of image restoration? Explain the model of image degradation and
restoration process using suitable block diagram.
56. Discuss any two color model used in color image processing.
57. Given the following dataset : {a,a,a,a,b,b,b,b,b,c,c,c,d,d,e}, derive the code word for the
data using Huffman Coding. What is coding efficiency, average code length and entropy?
58. Decode the message 0.23355 using arithmetic decoding process by using the following coding
model
Symbol Probability
A 0.2
E 0.3
I 0.1
O 0.2
U 0.2
59. Encode the ASCII string "𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒄𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒂" by using LZW coding algorithm.
60. What are the redundancies available in an image? Explain in details the JPEG image
compression techniques along with block diagram.
61. Properties of Walsh and Hadamard Transform.
And other problems done in the class like the convolution, histogram equalization, image
filtering etc.
