ALCCS
NOTE:
· Question 1 is compulsory and carries
28 marks. Answer any FOUR questions from the rest. Marks are indicated against each question.
· Parts of a question should be
answered at the same place.
· All
calculations should be up to three places of decimals.
Q.1 a. Discuss the various methods of
controlling animation.
b. Discuss hypertext
and hypermedia. For what purpose are
they used?
c. An uncompressed
audio signal of telephone quality is sampled at 8 kHz and quantized with 8 bits
per sample. Find the bandwidth and
storage requirements needed to store one second of playback?
d. Describe the
four types of image coding used in MPEG for processing.
e. Discuss briefly
the various aspects of multimedia operating systems.
f. Discuss the
following:
(i) quality
of service
(ii) video-conferencing and their standards
g. What are the basic characteristics of
multimedia database management systems?
Discuss them. (74)
Q.2 a. Discuss
data streams characteristics for Continuous Media. (9)
b. A node X in a network transmits packets to
another node Y assuming Poisson process with parameter l =
2. If transmission is carried out for 30 minutes, find out the time interval to
make it strongly periodic. (9)
Q.3 a. Discuss various aspects of music Instrument
Digital Interface (MIDI) standard including devices. (9)
b. Compute storage requirement for a speech
lasting for one hour. What is the data rate of the channel to transmit / broadcast
online? (9)
Q.4 a. Discuss various characteristics of video signal representation, i.e.,
visual representation, transmission and digitization in detail. (9)
b. How many CDs of 690 MB size would be needed
for a video (RGB) of 2 hours duration and no compression technique has been
used and no sound is there in it. It is assumed that display unit is super VGA
and motion frequency is 25 Hz. (9)
Q.5 a. What are the basic compression techniques?
Discuss each one of them. (9)
b. For
a video (RGB) of one hour which is encoded in MPEG-1 standard, what would be
the storage requirement? For what resolution of the display device is it
suitable? Assume aspect ratio of device is 4/3 and motion frequency is 20 Hz. (9)
Q.6 a. Discuss MPEG standard in detail. (9)
b. Compute the same results for Q.5 (b), if
MPEG-II standard is used. (9)
Q.7 a. Discuss interactive video, audio and
Video-On-Demand systems in details. (9)
b.
Apply Huffman coding technique to encode the following symbols whose frequencies are given below.
Symbol
Frequency
A 24
B 12
C 10
D 8
E 8 (9)