Reg. No.

Question Paper Code : 40429

B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021.

Sixth/Seventh/Eighth Semester

Biomedical Engineering

EC 8093 – DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

(Common to B.E. Computer Science and Engineering/B.E. Computer and

Communication Engineering/B.E. Electronics and communication Engineering/
B.E. Electronics and Instrument Engineering/B.E. Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineering/ B.E. Instrumentation and Control
Engineering/B.E. Mechatronics Engineering/B.E. Medical Electronics/
B.Tech. Information Technology)

(Regulations 2017)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A — (10  2 = 20 marks)

1. Differentiate photopic with scotopic in human eye.

2. State the equation for conversion of RGB to HSI color model.

110 100 243

3. Find the negative of 8 bit image f x , y   81 103 152 .
50 254 31

4. Sketch the perspective plot of an ideal lowpass filter transfer function and a
Butterworth lowpass filter transfer function.

5. Sketch the probability density function of Erlang noise.

6. Mention the reason why inverse filter has poor performance compare with
Wiener filter in image restoration process.

7. Recall the 3  3 point detection mask.

8. State the reason why oversegmentation occurs when image is segmented by

watershed algorithm.
9. Determine the average word length using Huffman coding for following set of
symbols and probabilities.
Symbol Probability
A 0.6
B 0.3
C 0.1

10. Calculate Euler number for the following region.

PART B — (5  13 = 65 marks)

11. (a) Describe the structure of human eye. (13)

Or
(b) (i) Explain RGB and HSI Model and their conversion. (8)
(ii) Describe the discrete cosine transform in detail. (5)
12. (a) (i) Summarize the various gray level transformations. (8)
(ii) Describe the Histogram equalization technique. (5)
Or
(b) Explain the process how image can be smoothened and sharpened by
using ideal. Butterworth and Gaussian filters. (13)
13. (a) (i) Characterize the various noise models by probability density
function. (8)
(ii) Discuss the various noise-reduction spatial mean filters. (5)
Or
(b) Explain how adaptive filter and band reject filters are used for noise
suppression process. (13)
14. (a) State and elaborate the principle of the following region based
segmentation procedure (13)
(i) Region — growing
(ii) Region — splitting and Merging
Or
(b) Explain in detail about how image can be segmented by morphological
watershed segmentation algorithm. (13)

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15. (a) Critically examine the JPEG and MPEG standard in detail. (13)

Or
(b) Explain how boundary of the region can be represented by Fourier
descriptors and Regional descriptors. (13)
PART C — (1  15 = 15 marks)

16. (a) Apply 3  3 Box filter and median filter for the following salt and pepper
noise corrupted image matrix and determine the resultant noise removal
image matrix. Assume zero padding at border (15)

40 50 80 120 160 145

100 255 90 48 96 120
45 65 0 90 100 145
110 105 145 255 146 133
65 85 95 117 165 123
48 255 145 32 0 89
Compare box filter output with median filter output and justify that
median filter produces better results than box filter.

Or
(b) Prove that first and second order derivatives can be used for edge
detection. Also explain the concept of edge linking via Hough transform.
(15)

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