PANIMALAR ENGINEERNG COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ECE
EC8093 – DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Multiple Choice Questions
UNIT 2 – IMAGE ENHANCEMENT

1.Which of the following filter passes the low frequency?

a. High pass filter
b. Low pass filter
c. Band pass filter
d. None of the above
2.Which of the following filter is used to find the brightest point in the image?
a. Max filter
b. Median filter
c. Min filter
d. None of the above
3.Which is the image processing technique used to improve the quality of image for human
viewing?
a. compression
b. enhancement
c. restoration
d. analysis
4.To remove "salt-and-pepper" noise without blurring we use
a. Max Filter
b. Median Filter
c. Min Filter
d. Smoothing Filter
5. Both the_____ and_____ filters are used to enhance horizontal edges
(or vertical if transposed)
a) Prewitt and Sobel
b) Sobel and Gaussian
c) Prewitt and Laplacian
d) Sobel and Laplacian
6. Transforming the pixel values of an image using the log () transformation is an example of
contrast compression of the dark pixels
 a) True
b) False
7. Which one of the following filters is nonlinear?
a) Gaussian Filter
b) Averaging Filter
c) Laplacian Filter
d) Median Filter

8. The sum of all elements in the mask of the smoothing averaging spatial filtering must be
equal to
a) m rows
b) n columns
c) m * n
d) 1
9. Sharpening the images is commonly accomplished by performing a spatial_________of
the image field.
a) Min Filter
b) Smoothing Filter
c) Integration
d) Differentiation
10. Which type of enhancement operations are used to modify pixel values according to the
value of the pixel‘s neighbours?
a) point operations
b) local operations
c) global operations
d) mask operations
11. Logic operations between two or more images are performed on pixel-by-pixel basis, except
for one that is performed on a single image. Which one is that?
a) AND
b) OR
c) NOT
d) None of the mentioned
12. What is the equivalent for a black, 8-bit pixel to be processed under logic operation on grey
scale image?
a) A string: 00000000
 b) A string: 11111111
c) A string: 10000000
d) A string: 01111111
13. Two images having one pixel gray value 01010100 and 00000101 at the same location, are
operated against AND operator. What would be the resultant pixel gray value at that
location in the enhanced image?
a) 10100100
b) 11111011
c) 00000100
d) 01010101
14. The expression [∂2 f(x,y)/∂x2 +∂2 f(x,y)/∂y2] is considered as _________ where f(x, y) is an
input image.
a) Laplacian of f(x, y)
b) Gradient of f(x, y)
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
15. An enhanced image can be obtained as: g(x,y)=f(x,y)-∇2 f(x,y), where Laplacian is being
subtracted from f(x, y) the input image. What does this conclude?
a) That the center spike would be negative
b) That the immediate neighbors of center spike would be positive.
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
16. Subtracting Laplacian from an image is proportional to which of the following?
a) Unsharp masking
b) Box filter
c) Median filter
d) None of the mentioned
17. The Laplacian is which of the following operator?
a) Nonlinear operator
b) Order-Statistic operator
c) Linear operator
d) None of the mentioned
18. In Histogram Matching r and z are grey level of input and output image and p stands for
PDF, then, what does pz(z) stands for?
a) Specific probability density function
 b) Specified pixel distribution function
c) Specific pixel density function
d) Specified probability density function
19. Inverse transformation plays an important role in which of the following Histogram
processing Techniques?
a) Histogram Linearization
b) Histogram Equalization
c) Histogram Matching
d) None of the mentioned
20. Let us suppose an image containing a quite small square under a large dark square with
both having very close gray level values. If an image contains some of this such that the
small squares can’t be visualized and some noise blurred enough to reduce its noise content
as shown in fig. below, which of the following method would be preferred for obtaining the
small square clear enough?

Figure: original image.

a) Global histogram equalization
b) Local histogram equalization
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
21. What is the sum of all components of a normalized histogram?
a) 1
b) -1
c) 0
d) None of the mentioned

22. If r be the grey-level of image before processing and s after processing then which
expression defines the negative transformation, for the grey-level in the range [0, L-1]?
a) s = L – 1 – r
b) s = crᵞ, c and ᵞ are positive constants
 c) s = c log (1 + r), c is a constant and r ≥ 0
d) none of the mentioned
23. What is gamma correction?
a) A process to remove power-law transformation response phenomena
b) A process to remove log transformation response phenomena
c) A process to correct log transformation response phenomena
d) A process to correct power-law transformation response phenomena
24. What is the technique for a grey-level transformation function called, if the transformation
would be to produce an image of higher contrast than the original by darkening the levels
below some grey-level m and brightening the levels above m in the original image.
a) Contouring
b) Contrast stretching
c) Mask processing
d) Point processing
25. What is the method that is used to generate a processed image that have a specified
histogram?
a) Histogram linearization
b) Histogram equalization
c) Histogram matching
d) Histogram processing
26. In a dark image, the components of histogram are concentrated on which side of the grey
scale?
a) High
b) Medium
c) Low
d) Evenly distributed
27. Which of the following is the primary objective of sharpening of an image?
a) Blurring the image
b) Highlight fine details in the image
c) Increase the brightness of the image
d) Decrease the brightness of the image
28. When is the contrast stretching transformation a linear function, for r and s as grey-value of
image before and after processing respectively?
a) r1 = s1 and r2 = s2
b) r1 = r2, s1 = 0 and s2 = L – 1, L is the max grey value allowed
 c) r1 = 1 and r2 = 0
d) None of the mentioned
29. When is the contrast stretching transformation a thresholding function, for r and s as grey-
value of image before and after processing respectively?
a) r1 = s1 and r2 = s2
b) r1 = r2, s1 = 0 and s2 = L – 1, L is the max grey value allowed
c) r1 = 1 and r2 = 0
d) None of the mentioned
30. In general, which of the following assures of no ringing in the output?
a) Gaussian Lowpass Filter
b) Ideal Lowpass Filter
c) Butterworth Lowpass Filter
d) All of the mentioned
31. If D0 is the cutoff distance measured from origin of frequency rectangle and D(u, v) is the
distance from point(u, v). Then what value does an Ideal High pass filter will give if D(u, v)
≤ D0 and if D(u, v) >D0?
a) 0 and 1 respectively
b) 1 and 0 respectively
c) 1 in both case
d) 0 in both case
32. The feature(s) of a high pass filtered image is/are ___________
a) Have less grey-level variation in smooth areas
b) Emphasized transitional grey-level details
c) An overall sharper image
d) All of the mentioned

33. Enhancement of differences between images is based on the principle of ____________

a) Additivity
b) Homogeneity
c) Subtraction
d) None of the Mentioned

34. A commercial use of Image Subtraction is ___________

a) Mask mode radiography
b) MRI scan
 c) CT scan
d) None of the Mentioned

35. Region of Interest (ROI) operations is commonly called as ___________

a) Shading correction
b) Masking
c) Dilation
d) None of the Mentioned

36. Consider two regions A and B composed of foreground pixels. The ________ of these two
sets is the set of elements belonging to set A or set B or both.
a) OR
b) AND
c) NOT
d) XOR

37. Image processing approaches operating directly on pixels of input image work directly in
____________
a) Transform domain
b) Spatial domain
c) Inverse transformation
d) None of the Mentioned
40. Ideal Low pass filters suffer _______________
a) Thinning effect
b) Thickening effect
c) Ringing effect
d) all of the above

41. Homomorphic filtering is a based on ___________________

a) Brightness-Luminance model
b) Radiance-Luminance model
c)Illumination-Reflectance model
d) None of the above
42. Smoothing filters are otherwise known as
a) Low pass filters
b)Highpass filters
c) Bandpass filters
d)Bandreject filters

43. Sharpening filters are otherwise known as

a) Low pass filters
b) Highpass filters
c) Bandpass filters
d)Bandreject filters

44. Ringing effect will not be found when _______________________ is used

a) Ideal LPF
b) Gaussian LPF
c) Butterworth LPF
d) Ideal HPF

45. Histogram Equalisation produces an image whose histogram will have

a) Gaussian Distribution
b) Random distribution
c) Uniform distribution
d) None of the above