Digital Video

 

1.      If you have a 16x16 pixel image with each luminance or chrominance value taking 1 byte (i.e., y, u, v each taking 1 byte per pixel). How many bytes would the image take?

Ø      using a 4:4:4 sampling

Ø      using a 4:1:1 chroma sampling

Ø      using a 4:2:0 chroma sampling

2.      What is the entropy of a source with M symbols where half of the symbols have a probability of occurrence of p and the other half have a probability of q?

3.      Answer

a.      What is the aspect ratio for HDTV?

b.      Give the formula for Entropy of a source as defined by Shannon. Define the terms in the formula.

c.      What is the prefix property?

4.      Answer [true or false / fill blanks]

 

 

a.      The brighter the still image presented to the viewer, the longer the persistence of vision.

 



b.      The optimal viewing distance (for TV) is expressed in terms of the height of the screen.

 

c.      Digital video always uses composite video.

d.      Shannon-Fano algorithm is a significant improvement over Huffman.

e.      Both Shannon-Fano and Huffman algorithms exhibit the prefix property.

f.       The units of entropy are _____________