UNIT I

1. Define Image?
An image may be defined as two dimensional light intensity function f(x, y)
where x and y denote spatial co-ordinate and the amplitude or value of f at any
point (x, y) is called intensity or grayscale or brightness of the image at that point.
2. What is Dynamic Range?
The range of values spanned by the gray scale is called dynamic range of an
image. Image will have high contrast, if the dynamic range is high and image will
have dull washed out gray look if the dynamic range is low.
3. Define Brightness?
Brightness of an object is the perceived luminance of the surround. Two objects
with different surroundings would have identical luminance but different brightness.
4. Define Tapered Quantization?
If gray levels in a certain range occur frequently while others occurs rarely, the
quantization levels are finely spaced in this range and coarsely spaced outside of it.
This method is sometimes called Tapered Quantization.
5. What do you meant by Gray level?
Gray level refers to a scalar measure of intensity that ranges from black to grays
and finally to white.
6. What do you meant by Color model?
A Color model is a specification of 3D-coordinates system and a subspace within
that system where each color is represented by a single point.
7. List the hardware oriented color models?
1. RGB model
2. CMY model
3. YIQ model
4. HSI model
8. Define Hue and saturation?
Hue is a color attribute that describes a pure color where saturation gives a
measure of the degree to which a pure color is diluted by white light.

9. List the applications of color models?

1. RGB model--- used for color monitor & color video camera
2. CMY model---used for color printing
3. HIS model----used for color image processing
4. YIQ model---used for color picture transmission
10. What is Chromatic Adoption?
The hue of a perceived color depends on the adoption of the viewer. For example,
the American Flag will not immediately appear red, white, and blue of the viewer
has been subjected to high intensity red light before viewing the flag. The color of
the flag will appear to shift in hue toward the red component cyan.
11. Define Resolution?
Resolution is defined as the smallest number of discernible detail in an image.
Spatial resolution is the smallest discernible detail in an image and gray level
resolution refers to the smallest discernible change is gray level.
12. What is meant by pixel?
A digital image is composed of a finite number of elements each of which has a
particular location or value. These elements are referred to as pixels or image
elements or picture elements or pels elements.
13. Define Digital image?
When x, y and the amplitude values of f all are finite discrete quantities , we call
the image digital image.
14. What are the steps involved in DIP?
1. Image Acquisition
2. Preprocessing
3. Segmentation
4. Representation and Description
5. Recognition and Interpretation
15. What is recognition and Interpretation?
Recognition means is a process that assigns a label to an object based on the
information provided by its descriptors.
Interpretation means assigning meaning to a recognized object.

16. Specify the elements of DIP system?

1. Image Acquisition
2. Storage
3. Processing
4. Display
17. Explain the categories of digital storage?
1. Short term storage for use during processing.
2. Online storage for relatively fast recall.
3. Archical storage for infrequent access.
18. What are the types of light receptors?
The two types of light receptors are
1. Cones
2. Rods
19. Differentiate photopic and scotopic vision?
1. The human being can resolve the fine details with these cones because each one
is connected to its own nerve end.
2. This is also known as bright light vision. Several rods are connected to one nerve
end. So it gives the overall picture of the image. This is also known as thin light
vision.
20. How cones and rods are distributed in retina?
In each eye, cones are in the range 6-7 million and rods are in the range 75-150
million.
21. Define subjective brightness and brightness adaptation?
Subjective brightness means intensity as preserved by the human visual system.
Brightness adaptation means the human visual system can operate only from
scotopic to glare limit. It cannot operate over the range simultaneously. It
accomplishes this large variation by changes in its overall intensity.
22. Define weber ratio
The ratio of increment of illumination to background of illumination is called as
weber ratio.(ie) _i/i
If the ratio (_i/i) is small, then small percentage of change in intensity is needed

(ie) good brightness adaptation.

If the ratio (_i/i) is large , then large percentage of change in intensity is needed
(ie) poor brightness adaptation.
23. What is meant by machband effect?
Machband effect means the intensity of the stripes is constant. Therefore it
preserves the brightness pattern near the boundaries, these bands are called as
machband effect.
24. What is simultaneous contrast?
The region reserved brightness not depend on its intensity but also on its
background. All centre square have same intensity. However they appear to the eye
to become darker as the background becomes lighter.
25. What is meant by illumination and reflectance?
Illumination is the amount of source light incident on the scene. It is represented
as i(x, y).
Reflectance is the amount of light reflected by the object in the scene. It is
represented by r(x, y).
26. Define sampling and quantization
Sampling means digitizing the co-ordinate value (x, y).
Quantization means digitizing the amplitude value.
27. Find the number of bits required to store a 256 X 256 image with 32 gray levels?
32 gray levels = 25
= 5 bits
256 * 256 * 5 = 327680 bits.
28. Write the expression to find the number of bits to store a digital image?
The number of bits required to store a digital image is
b=M X N X k
When M=N, this equation becomes
b=N^2k
30. What do you meant by Zooming of digital images?
Zooming may be viewed as over sampling. It involves the creation of new pixel
locations and the assignment of gray levels to those new locations.

31. What do you meant by shrinking of digital images?

Shrinking may be viewed as under sampling. To shrink an image by one half, we
delete every row and column. To reduce possible aliasing effect, it is a good idea to
blue an image slightly before shrinking it.
32. Write short notes on neighbors of a pixel.
The pixel p at co-ordinates (x, y) has 4 neighbors (ie) 2 horizontal and 2 vertical
neighbors whose co-ordinates is given by (x+1, y), (x-1,y), (x,y-1), (x, y+1). This
is called as direct neighbors. It is denoted by N4(P)
Four diagonal neighbors of p have co-ordinates (x+1, y+1), (x+1,y-1), (x-1, y-1),
(x-1, y+1). It is denoted by ND(4).
Eight neighbors of p denoted by N8(P) is a combination of 4 direct neighbors and
4 diagonal neighbors.
33. Explain the types of connectivity.
1. 4 connectivity
2. 8 connectivity
3. M connectivity (mixed connectivity)
34. What is meant by path?
Path from pixel p with co-ordinates (x, y) to pixel q with co-ordinates (s,t) is a
sequence of distinct pixels with co-ordinates.
35. Give the formula for calculating D4 and D8 distance.
D4 distance ( city block distance) is defined by
D4(p, q) = |x-s| + |y-t|
D8 distance(chess board distance) is defined by
D8(p, q) = max(|x-s|, |y-t|).
36. What is geometric transformation?
Transformation is used to alter the co-ordinate description of image.
The basic geometric transformations are
1. Image translation
2. Scaling
3. Image rotation
37. What is image translation and scaling?

Image translation means reposition the image from one co-ordinate location to
another along straight line path.
Scaling is used to alter the size of the object or image (ie) a co-ordinate system is
scaled by a factor.
38. What is the need for transform?
The need for transform is most of the signals or images are time domain signal
(ie) signals can be measured with a function of time. This representation is not
always best. For most image processing applications anyone of the mathematical
transformation are applied to the signal or images to obtain further information
from that signal.
39. Define the term Luminance?
Luminance measured in lumens (lm), gives a measure of the amount of energy an
observer perceiver from a light source.
40. What is Image Transform?
An image can be expanded in terms of a discrete set of basis arrays called basis
images. These basis images can be generated by unitary matrices. Alternatively, a
given NxN image can be viewed as an N^2x1 vectors. An image transform provides
a set of coordinates or basis vectors for vector space.
41. What are the applications of transform.
1) To reduce band width
2) To reduce redundancy
3) To extract feature.
42. Give the Conditions for perfect transform?
Transpose of matrix = Inverse of a matrix. Orthoganality.
43. What are the properties of unitary transform?
1) Determinant and the Eigen values of a unitary matrix have unity magnitude
2) the entropy of a random vector is preserved under a unitary Transformation
3) Since the entropy is a measure of average information, this means information
is preserved under a unitary transformation.

44. Define fourier transform pair?

45. Define fourier spectrum and spectral density?
46. Give the relation for 1-D discrete fourier transform pair?
47. Specify the properties of 2D fourier transform.
The properties are
1. Separability
2. Translation
3. Periodicity and conjugate symmetry
4. Rotation
5. Distributivity and scaling
6. Average value
7. Laplacian
8. Convolution and correlation
9. sampling
48. Explain separability property in 2D fourier transform
49. Properties of twiddle factor.
50. Give the Properties of one-dimensional DFT
1. The DFT and unitary DFT matrices are symmetric.
2. The extensions of the DFT and unitary DFT of a sequence and their
inverse transforms are periodic with period N.
3. The DFT or unitary DFT of a real sequence is conjugate symmetric
about N/2.
51. Give the Properties of two-dimensional DFT
1. Symmetric
2. Periodic extensions
3. Sampled Fourier transform
4. Conjugate symmetry.
52. What is meant by convolution?
The convolution of 2 functions is defined by
f(x)*g(x) = f() .g(x- ) d
where is the dummy variable

53. State convolution theorem for 1D

54. What is wrap around error?
The individual periods of the convolution will overlap and is referred to as
wrap around error
55. Give the formula for correlation of 1D continuous function.
The correlation of 2 continuous functions f(x) and g(x) is defined by
f(x) o g(x) = f*( ) g(x+ ) d
56. Give the relation for 1-D DCT.