Quiz 1 in CSE 190D (Spring 2013)

The first of our two quizzes will be on Monday, May 6. It will be in a mixed format, with some short-answer questions and some multiple-choice questions. It will be closed-book, and on paper.
 
Topics to be covered include the following.
  • RGB representation of pixels, with 8 bits per component.
  • Hue, saturation, and value representation of colors, with floating-point numbers in the range [0.0, 1.0].
  • Spatial frequency of an oscillating pattern in an image. Sampling rate.
  • Nyquist criterion. Aliasing.
  • Contrast enhancement: piecewise-linear method; thresholding method, including the valley method for threshold selection; histogram equalization method.
  • Push versus pull methods for geometric image transformation.
  • Box filtering, median filtering, convolution.
  • Python sequences: lists, tuples, and strings, including the range function.
  • Python control structures, including for, while, if, and else.
  • Python function definition with def, including the use of parameters and keyword parameters.
  • Python class and method definition, including inheritance and distinguishing instance members from class variables.