# scipy.fftpack.dct¶

scipy.fftpack.dct(x, type=2, n=None, axis=-1, norm=None, overwrite_x=False)[source]

Return the Discrete Cosine Transform of arbitrary type sequence x.

Parameters
xarray_like

The input array.

type{1, 2, 3, 4}, optional

Type of the DCT (see Notes). Default type is 2.

nint, optional

Length of the transform. If n < x.shape[axis], x is truncated. If n > x.shape[axis], x is zero-padded. The default results in n = x.shape[axis].

axisint, optional

Axis along which the dct is computed; the default is over the last axis (i.e., axis=-1).

norm{None, ‘ortho’}, optional

Normalization mode (see Notes). Default is None.

overwrite_xbool, optional

If True, the contents of x can be destroyed; the default is False.

Returns
yndarray of real

The transformed input array.

idct

Inverse DCT

Notes

For a single dimension array x, dct(x, norm='ortho') is equal to MATLAB dct(x).

There are theoretically 8 types of the DCT, only the first 4 types are implemented in scipy. ‘The’ DCT generally refers to DCT type 2, and ‘the’ Inverse DCT generally refers to DCT type 3.

Type I

There are several definitions of the DCT-I; we use the following (for norm=None):

                                   N-2
y[k] = x[0] + (-1)**k x[N-1] + 2 * sum x[n]*cos(pi*k*n/(N-1))
n=1


If norm='ortho', x[0] and x[N-1] are multiplied by a scaling factor of sqrt(2), and y[k] is multiplied by a scaling factor f:

f = 0.5*sqrt(1/(N-1)) if k = 0 or N-1,
f = 0.5*sqrt(2/(N-1)) otherwise.


New in version 1.2.0: Orthonormalization in DCT-I.

Note

The DCT-I is only supported for input size > 1.

Type II

There are several definitions of the DCT-II; we use the following (for norm=None):

          N-1
y[k] = 2* sum x[n]*cos(pi*k*(2n+1)/(2*N)), 0 <= k < N.
n=0


If norm='ortho', y[k] is multiplied by a scaling factor f:

f = sqrt(1/(4*N)) if k = 0,
f = sqrt(1/(2*N)) otherwise.


Which makes the corresponding matrix of coefficients orthonormal (OO' = Id).

Type III

There are several definitions, we use the following (for norm=None):

                  N-1
y[k] = x[0] + 2 * sum x[n]*cos(pi*(k+0.5)*n/N), 0 <= k < N.
n=1


or, for norm='ortho' and 0 <= k < N:

                                    N-1
y[k] = x[0] / sqrt(N) + sqrt(2/N) * sum x[n]*cos(pi*(k+0.5)*n/N)
n=1


The (unnormalized) DCT-III is the inverse of the (unnormalized) DCT-II, up to a factor 2N. The orthonormalized DCT-III is exactly the inverse of the orthonormalized DCT-II.

Type IV

There are several definitions of the DCT-IV; we use the following (for norm=None):

          N-1
y[k] = 2* sum x[n]*cos(pi*(2k+1)*(2n+1)/(4*N)), 0 <= k < N.
n=0


If norm='ortho', y[k] is multiplied by a scaling factor f:

f = 0.5*sqrt(2/N)


New in version 1.2.0: Support for DCT-IV.

References

1

‘A Fast Cosine Transform in One and Two Dimensions’, by J. Makhoul, IEEE Transactions on acoustics, speech and signal processing vol. 28(1), pp. 27-34, DOI:10.1109/TASSP.1980.1163351 (1980).

2

Wikipedia, “Discrete cosine transform”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform

Examples

The Type 1 DCT is equivalent to the FFT (though faster) for real, even-symmetrical inputs. The output is also real and even-symmetrical. Half of the FFT input is used to generate half of the FFT output:

>>> from scipy.fftpack import fft, dct
>>> fft(np.array([4., 3., 5., 10., 5., 3.])).real
array([ 30.,  -8.,   6.,  -2.,   6.,  -8.])
>>> dct(np.array([4., 3., 5., 10.]), 1)
array([ 30.,  -8.,   6.,  -2.])


#### Previous topic

scipy.fftpack.irfft

#### Next topic

scipy.fftpack.idct