scipy.fft.dct#
- scipy.fft.dct(x, type=2, n=None, axis=- 1, norm=None, overwrite_x=False, workers=None, orthogonalize=None)[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. Ifn > x.shape[axis]
, x is zero-padded. The default results inn = x.shape[axis]
.- axisint, optional
Axis along which the dct is computed; the default is over the last axis (i.e.,
axis=-1
).- norm{“backward”, “ortho”, “forward”}, optional
Normalization mode (see Notes). Default is “backward”.
- overwrite_xbool, optional
If True, the contents of x can be destroyed; the default is False.
- workersint, optional
Maximum number of workers to use for parallel computation. If negative, the value wraps around from
os.cpu_count()
. Seefft
for more details.- orthogonalizebool, optional
Whether to use the orthogonalized DCT variant (see Notes). Defaults to
True
whennorm=="ortho"
andFalse
otherwise.New in version 1.8.0.
- Returns
- yndarray of real
The transformed input array.
See also
idct
Inverse DCT
Notes
For a single dimension array
x
,dct(x, norm='ortho')
is equal to MATLABdct(x)
.Warning
For
type in {1, 2, 3}
,norm="ortho"
breaks the direct correspondence with the direct Fourier transform. To recover it you must specifyorthogonalize=False
.For
norm="ortho"
both thedct
andidct
are scaled by the same overall factor in both directions. By default, the transform is also orthogonalized which for types 1, 2 and 3 means the transform definition is modified to give orthogonality of the DCT matrix (see below).For
norm="backward"
, there is no scaling ondct
and theidct
is scaled by1/N
whereN
is the “logical” size of the DCT. Fornorm="forward"
the1/N
normalization is applied to the forwarddct
instead and theidct
is unnormalized.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="backward"
)\[y_k = x_0 + (-1)^k x_{N-1} + 2 \sum_{n=1}^{N-2} x_n \cos\left( \frac{\pi k n}{N-1} \right)\]If
orthogonalize=True
,x[0]
andx[N-1]
are multiplied by a scaling factor of \(\sqrt{2}\), andy[0]
andy[N-1]
are divided by \(\sqrt{2}\). When combined withnorm="ortho"
, this makes the corresponding matrix of coefficients orthonormal (O @ O.T = np.eye(N)
).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="backward"
)\[y_k = 2 \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} x_n \cos\left(\frac{\pi k(2n+1)}{2N} \right)\]If
orthogonalize=True
,y[0]
is divided by \(\sqrt{2}\) which, when combined withnorm="ortho"
, makes the corresponding matrix of coefficients orthonormal (O @ O.T = np.eye(N)
).Type III
There are several definitions, we use the following (for
norm="backward"
)\[y_k = x_0 + 2 \sum_{n=1}^{N-1} x_n \cos\left(\frac{\pi(2k+1)n}{2N}\right)\]If
orthogonalize=True
,x[0]
terms are multiplied by \(\sqrt{2}\) which, when combined withnorm="ortho"
, makes the corresponding matrix of coefficients orthonormal (O @ O.T = np.eye(N)
).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="backward"
)\[y_k = 2 \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} x_n \cos\left(\frac{\pi(2k+1)(2n+1)}{4N} \right)\]orthogonalize
has no effect here, as the DCT-IV matrix is already orthogonal up to a scale factor of2N
.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.fft 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.])