1. Explain Up-sampling and down sampling.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using

Up-sampling and down sampling?
2. Explain the concept of decimation and interpolation and what is the role of decimation and
interpolation in sampling rate conversion?
3. a) What are the advantages of DCT over DTFT? Compute the discrete cosine transform (DCT)
and IDCT matrix for N=4.
b) Find the DCT of x[n]=(1,2,3,4)
4. What do you mean by short-term and long-term linear prediction? Explain.
5. Briefly explain ADPCM algorithm.
6. Explain about the analysis by synthesis linear prediction algorithms.
7. Explain about the code exited linear prediction algorithms.
8. Explain about the LP-based Wideband Audio Coding Methods.
9. Explain multipulse excitation model for wideband audio coding.
10. Explain the following:
a) NMT, b) TMN, and c) NMN
11. Describe the psychoacoustic principle?
12. What are the steps of computation of global masking threshold? Briefly explain each step.
13. Explain perceptual entropy?
14. What do you mean by perceptual bit allocation? Explain.
15. Briefly explain about absolute threshold of hearing and critical band.
16. Explain Simultaneous and non simultaneous masking.
17. What is the application of motion estimation in Video coding?
18. What are the benefits of block matching algorithms in video processing?
19. Explain any two of the block matching algorithm.
20. What do you understand by pixel based motion estimation for video
processing? Briefly explain.