Question Paper Code :

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M.E. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 Second Semester Communication Systems

CU 9222 MULTIMEDIA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES (Regulation 2009) Time : Three hours

PART A (10 2 = 20 Marks) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What is the need for compression?

What are the advantages of vector quantization? List the applications of Huffman coding.

For a simple fair die what is the tag for X = 3? Define pitch period. What is meant by formants? Define Signal to Prediction Error Ratio (SPER). Compare EZW and SPIHT Coders. Mention the profiles and levels used in MPEG-2 Video standard. What is meant by anchor frames?

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Compare scalar and vector quantization.

What are the methodologies to analyze and evaluate the errors? (8) Or

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Explain structured vector quantizers.

Explain source coding and source models with neat block diagram. (8) Encode the following message using Adaptive Huffman coding where alphabet consists 26 lower case letters. [b a a b a a g o a t]

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A sequence is encoded using LZW algorithm and the initial dictionary is Index Entry 1 2 3 4 a s c t

The output of the LZW encoder is the following sequence 3 1 4 6 8 4 2 1 2 5 10 6 11 13 6 (8)

Decode this sequence.

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Consider the probability model P(a2) = 0.12, P(a1) = 0.8, P(a3) = 0.08 if the arithmetic Tag generated is 0.772352 Decipher the tag. Encode the resulting decoded sequence and compare both are same. (16) (i) Explain G.722 and its applications for speech coding. Describe the basic sub-band coding algorithm with neat sketch. Or (8) (8) (8) (8)

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With neat sketch explain Code Excited Linear Prediction. Explain how progressive encoding is used for audio? 2

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PART B (5 16 = 80 Marks)

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How JBIG-2 standard enhances the compression performance? Or

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How an image is compressed using JPEG Image compression? Explain Transform coding with example.

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Describe motion compensation with suitable example. Discuss the compression schemes for Packet Video Or

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Explain MPEG2 video standard with neat sketch. How DVI technology is used in real time compression?

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Explain Constant Factor Adaptive Delta Modulation.

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