1.
Introduction
Various levels of image processing and different image processing problems
Steps of digital image processing and applications of digital image processing
Digital Image Processing
Fidelity Criteria and types of images
Elements of Visual Perception
Explain how to convert an analog image into digital image
How many size of 1400 * 1000 images into a digital image with 256 gray levels
can be stored in 1024MB storage capacity?
2. Image Enhancement and Restoration
Importance of Smoothing Filters. Different types of linear and non linear
smoothing filters
Characteristics of Image operations and neighborhood in Image process
Stretch the histogram contrast over the entire range
Image enhancement and zooming. Image enhancement filters
Difference between image enhancement and image restoration process.
Describe about image sharpening filters
Path based adjacency in pixels and different types of neighborhood and point
processing operations for image enhancement
Different noise present in an image. Image magnification techniques
Normalized histogram. How histogram can be used as an image enhancement
tool [Histogram equalization] and specification
First and second order differential filters. Histogram matching
Image restoration process
Relationship between pixels. State and illustrate how to overcome defect of
mean filters [filtering in frequency domain]
Spatial domain filtering. Bit plane slicing for image enhancement
Median filter along with algorithm m
3. Transformation Operation in Image
Sine transform and how it differs from cosine transform
Fourier transform and clustering
Inter and Intra frame coding. Explain transform coding based on DCT
Discrete Sine Transform, Hadamard Transformation
FFT is better than Fourier transform
Wavelet coding
4. Morphological Operation of Image
Differences between Dilation and Erosion
Boundary Filling Algorithm with example and boundary extraction
Skeletonization, dilation and erosion
Opening and Closing and their differences
Region Filling
5. Image Compression and Coding
Image coding and compression and why is it necessary?
Run Length coding, Huffman Encoding
Types of Redundancies. Explain LZW coding
Entropy Encoding Techniques.
Issues of Image Compression
Lossy Predictive Coding
6. Image Analysis
Segmentation. How do you select the threshold in segmentation by threshold
technique? Explain any one technique.
Image Analysis. Segmentation based on thresholding
Crack and Chain code
Edge detection or gradient operation
Region growing based segmentation
Image segmentation and template based edge detection
Global Thresholding and Region merging techniques
7. Pattern Recognition and Classification techniques
ANN based classifier, Clustering
8. Application of ANN in pattern recognition
Neural Network. Applications of image processing and PR
Application of ANN in pattern recognition
ANN based classifier
What is neural network and how can a neural network be applied in digital
image processing. Explain it with the help of a simple perceptron.
Self-Organizing Map