EC8093 – DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Multiple Choice Questions

UNIT 4 – IMAGE SEGMENTATION

1. What role does the segmentation play in image processing?

a) Deals with extracting attributes that result in some quantitative information of
interest
b) Deals with techniques for reducing the storage required saving an image, or the
bandwidth required transmitting it
c) Deals with partitioning an image into its constituent parts or objects
d) Deals with property in which images are subdivided successively into smaller
regions
2. What is the process of breaking an image into groups?
a) Edge detection
b) Smoothing
c) Segmentation
d) None of the mentioned
3. Example of discontinuity approach in image segmentation is:
a. Edge based segmentation
b. Boundary based segmentation
c. Region based segmentation
d. Both a & b
4. Image segmentation is based on?
a. Morphology
b. Set theory
c. Extraction
d. Recognition
5. Thresholding gives the
a. large image
b. gray scale image
c. color image
d. binary image
6. Segmentation algorithms depends on intensity values
a. Discontinuity
b. Similarity
c. Continuity
d. Both a & b
7. During segmentation every pixel of an image should be in
a. connected set
b. boundaries
c. region
d. concerned area

8. Algorithm stating that boundaries of the image are different from background is
a. Discontinuity
b. Similarity
c. Extraction
d. Recognition
9. What are the two approaches to segmentation?
 a. Haar-like feature & 3-D rectangle approach
b. Region based segmentation & edge segmentation
c. Adaboost approach & edge segmentation
d. None of the above
10. Dilation followed by erosion is called
a. Opening
b. Closing
c. Blurring
d. Translation
11. With dilation process shapes in images get
a. Thinner
b. Shrinked
c. Thicker
d. Sharpened
12. Erosion followed by dilation is called
a. Opening
b. Closing
c. Blurring
d. Translation
13. Dilation is used for
a. Bridging gaps
b. Translation
c. Scaling
d. Rotation
14. Examples of discontinuity approach in image segmentation is
a. edge based segmentation
b. boundary based segmentation
c. Region based segmentation
d. Both a and b
15. Image segmentation is also based on
a. morphology
b. set theory
c. extraction
d. recognition
16. Lines in an image can be oriented at angle
a. 0
b. 90
c. 30
d. Both a and b
17.Mexican hat function is used to refer
a) Laplacian
b) Gaussian
c)Laplacian of Gaussian
d)Gaussian of Laplacian
18. Hough Transform is used for
a) Noise removal
b) Edge detection
c) Edge linking
d) Smoothing
19. Quadtree is a tree in which the nodes will have exactly ____________descendants
a) 2
b) 4
c) 6
d) 8
20. ________________ is used to control over-segmentation due to morphological
watersheds
a) Stoppers
b) Slopes
c) Markers
d) None of the above
21. Points at which a drop of water when placed is equally likely to fall to more than one
minimum are called
a) Watersheds
b) Catchment basin
c) Watershed lines
d) None of the above
22. A Laplacian operator is used to detect
a) Lines
b) Thick edges
c) Thin edges
d) All of the above
23. Identify the operator ?

a) Canny’s operator
b) Prewitt’s operator
c) Sobel’s operator
d) Laplacian operator
24. Identify the mask

a) Canny’s operator
b) Prewitt’s operator
c) Sobel’s operator
d) Laplacian operator
25. Identify the mask

0 -1 0
-1 4 -1
 0 -1 0

a) Canny’s operator
b) Prewitt’s operator
c) Sobel’s operator
d) Laplacian operator

26. Laplacian operator is a__________________

a) First order derivative filter
b) Second order derivative filter
c) Integral filter
d) None of the above

27. Which of the following are first order derivative filters

a) Robert’s cross gradient operator
b) Prewitt’s operator
c) Sobel’s operator
d) All of the above

28. The given mask is used to detect _________________

-1 -1 -1
2 2 2
-1 -1 -1
a) Horizontal lines
b) Vertical lines
c) +45 degree diagonal lines
d) -45 degree diagonal lines

29. The given mask is used to detect _________________

-1 2 -1
-1 2 -1
-1 2 -1
a) Horizontal lines
b) Vertical lines
c) +45 degree diagonal lines
d) -45 degree diagonal lines

29. The given mask is used to detect _________________

2 -1 -1
-1 2 -1
-1 -1 2
a) Horizontal lines
b) Vertical lines
c) +45 degree diagonal lines
d) -45 degree diagonal lines
30. The given mask is used to detect _________________

-1 -1 2
-1 2 -1
2 -1 -1
a) Horizontal lines
b) Vertical lines
c) +45 degree diagonal lines
d) -45 degree diagonal lines

31._____________ can be used to detect whether an edge pixel lies on dark or light side of an
edge
a) First order derivative filters
b) Second order derivative filters
c) Integral filters
d) None of the above

32. Identify the gradient operator equation

a) |Gx| + |Gy|
b) |Gx| - |Gy|
c) |Gx| * |Gy|
d) |Gx| / |Gy|

33. The process of region growing starts with identifying the

a) Key points
b) Edges
c) Lines
d) Seed points

34. Thresholding is a type of segmentation based on

a) Discontinuity
d) Similarity
c) Continuity
d) All of the above
35. When the desired object is detected segmentation should be

a. Paused
b. Cleared
c. Continued
d. Stopped

36. Identify the mask ?

 a) Laplacian
b) Sobel’s
c) Laplacian of Gaussian
d) Prewitt’s
37. Which of the following can be used for detecting point discontinuities?
a) Prewitt’s
b) Sobel’s
c) Canny’s
d) Laplacian

38. Which of the following are Laplacian operators

a)
-1 -1 2
-1 2 -1
2 -1 -1

b)
1 2 1
0 0 0
-1 -2 -1

c)
-1 -1 -1
-1 8 -1
-1 -1 -1

d)
1 0 -1
2 0 -2
1 0 -1

39. If intersection of two regions is a null set, it indicates those two regions are
a) Connected
b) Disjoint
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above

40. Dams are constructed by setting all the points in the path to a value _____________
the maximum intensity value of the image.
a) Greater than
b) Smaller than
c) Equal to
d) None of the above