NR

Code No: NR410507

IV B.Tech I Semester Supplimentary Examinations, May/Jun 2009

DIGITAL SPEECH AND IMAGE PROCESSING
( Common to Computer Science & Engineering 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 how the multi-image averaging is performed.
(b) What are the advantages of multi-image averaging?

[10+6]

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. The mean and standard deviation of the background pixels in the image shown
are 110 and 15 respectively. The object pixels have mean and standard deviation
values of 200 and 40 respectively. Give a thresholding solution for segmenting the
objects of the image.
[16]
5. Show that the Sobel and Prewitt gradient masks give isotropic results only for
horizontal and vertical edges oriented at 450 .
[16]
6. Explain the methodology adopted to extend the morphology operations to gray
scale images.
[16]
7. (a) Describe about Transform coding.
(b) Write notes on optimal quantization.

[8+8]

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

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

1 of 1

[6+10]