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1. Q:Imageandvideoprocessinghasapplicationsin(youcanselectmorethanonecorrectanswer.)
Outerspaceimages
Medicalimages
Consumerimages
A:Theanswerisalltheabovesince,aswehaveseenintheintroductoryvideos,imageprocessinghasapplicationsinconsumerimages,medical
images,outerspaceimages,andmuchmore.
2. Q:Imagesexistonlyinthevisualspectrum.
True
False
A:ThestatementthatimagesexistonlyinthevisualspectrumisFalse,aswehaveseenintheearlyvideos.Checkvideo3,Figure1.5(around
01:30)andthenumerousexamplesprovidedthere.
3. Q:Whenyouenteradarkroominabrightday,ittakessometimebeforeyoucanseereasonablewellintheroom.Whichvisualprocessexplains
thisphenomena?
Dilatedpupils
Binocularvision(2eyes)
Colorvision
Brightnessadaptation
A:Brightnessadaptationisthevisualprocessthatexplainsthatwhenyouenterdarkroominabrightday,ittakessometimebeforeyoucansee
reasonablewellintheroom.CheckFigure2.4invideo4(around04:30).
4. Q:Consideranimagewith100linesand1000pixelsperline.Eachpixelcantake256differentvalues.Thetotalamountofbitsneededtostore
thatimageis
Largerthantheharddriveinmycomputer.
10,000
25,600,000
800,000
A:Wehaveatotalof100x1000pixelsintheimage,andweneed8bitsperpixeltorepresent256differentvalues.Thetotalnumberofbitsisthen
8x100x1000.
5. Q:Samplingrefersto
Inversionofthepixelvalues
Discretizationofthespatialimagedomain.
Testingthepossiblepositionsofanobjectinanimage
Discretizationofthevaluesanimagepixelcantake
A:Samplingreferstodiscretizationofthespatialimagedomain.Seefigures2.16(around03:50)and2.17(around07:17)invideo5.
6. Q:Quantizationrefersto
Discretizationofthespatialimagedomain.
Inversionofthepixelvalues.
Testingthepossiblepositionsofanobjectinanimage.
Discretizationofthevaluesanimagepixelcantake.
A:Quantizationreferstodiscretizationofthevaluesanimagepixelcantake.Seefigures2.16(around03:50)and2.17(around07:17)invideo5.
7. Q:Goingfromapixelwithcoordinate(1,1)toapixelwithcoordinate(0,0)takes
Onestepfor8adjacencyand2stepsfor4adjacency
Twostepsfor8adjacencyand2stepsfor4adjacency.
Twostepsbothfor4and8adjacencyneighborhoods.
Onesinglestepbothfor4and8adjacency.
A:Whilewith8adjacencywecantraveldiagonally(andthenasinglestep),for4adjacencywecanonlymovedownandthenleft(atotalof2
steps).
8. Q:Thedeterminantofascalingmatrixisequalto1.
False
True
A:False.Thedeterminantactuallyrepresentsthescale,seeTable2.2(around11:42)invideo6.
9. Q:Thedeterminantofarotationmatrixis...
A:Thedeterminantofarotationmatrixisequalto1,seeTable2.2(around11:42)invideo6aswellastheexcellentandverydetailedforum
discussiononthisquestion.
10. Q:Whenwequantizeanimage,theamountofmemoryneededtostoreit

Decreases
Increases
A:Itdecreases.Aswewillseelater,quantizationiscriticalforcompression,reducingtheamountofstorageneededwhilemaintainingimportant
visualcharacteristics.
11. Q:Avideohas30frames(images)persecond.Consideringthateachimagesis1000 1000 pixels.Anhourofvideowilloccupy
Allthememoryinmymobilephone.
864000000000bits
Wecantknow.
864000000bits
A:Wecantknowbecausethenumberofgraylevelsperpixelwasnotspecified.
12. Q:Ifwequantizeanimagewithdoubleresolution(meaningweusedoublenumberofbitsperpixel)andsampleitwithhalftheresolutionineach
direction,then
Thetotalstorageneededremainsthesame.
Thetotalstorageneededisreducedbyhalf.
Thetotalstorageneededisreduced4times.
Theimagequalityremainsthesame.
A:Sincewearereducingtheresolutionby2ineachdirection,thetotalnumberofpixelsisreducedby4.Atthesametimewearedoublingthe
numberofbitsperpixelandthereforethetotalstorageisonlyreducedby2.

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