Image:Dandelion clock quarter dft dct.png
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| Description |
the picture shows the difference between the DFT and a DCT of an image |
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| Source |
I made it by myself |
| Date |
13/05/2006 |
| Author |
Alessio Damato |
| Permission (Reusing this image) |
multilicensed (see below) |
| Other versions | the original image that was processed was Image:Dandelion_clock.jpg |
I used Image:Dandelion_clock.jpg to create this image. I wanted to show clearly the different behavior between the DFT and the DCT in the frequency domain.
The pictures are made of other figures. The first one on the top is just the original image: I used its gray-scale version. On the second line there is the DFT: its magnitude on the left, its histogram on the right. On the third line there is the DCT, with both magnitude and histogram.
The spectrum of the DFT has cropped so that the lowest frequencies are on the top-left of the picture, just like in the DCT. It is not such a rigorous process: the DFT in general is composed of two symmetric halves, but I put on the picture just one quarter, thus removing one quarter of necessary information. I did so to create an output that could be easily be compared with the DCT. Because of symmetry, I cropped to 1/4 the DCT as well, keeping the lower frequencies. Anyway it is clear how the DCT concentrates most of the energy into the lowest frequencies.
I created the single images with the following Matlab code:
% read the image
RGB = imread('Dandelion_clock.jpg');
% convert pixels to the [0 1] range
RGB = im2double(RGB);
% convert to grayscale
I = rgb2gray(RGB);
% calculate the size of the image and then divide
% by two, in order to crop it later
[X Y] = size(I);
Y = round(Y/2);
X = round(X/2);
% evaluate magnitude of the DFT
F = abs(fft2(I));
% take only a quarter
F = imcrop(F,[0 0 Y X]);
% use log scale
F = log(1 + F);
F = log(1 + F);
% normalize
F = F/max(F(:));
% evaluate magnitude of the DCT
C = abs(dct2(I));
% take only a quarter
C = imcrop(C,[0 0 Y X]);
% use log scale
C = log(1 + C);
C = log(1 + C);
% normalize
C = C/max(C(:));
% show all the results
imshow(F), colorbar, colormap(jet);
figure, imhist(F);
figure, imshow(C), colorbar, colormap(jet);
figure, imhist(C);
First it imports the RGB image and converts it to gray-scale. Then calculates the magnitude of both the transforms. Both pictures had a huge dynamic, so I calculated the logarithm of both, twice, in order to be able to show the transforms properly. Once all the pictures were shown on the screen, I just selected File -> Save as on Matlab to save all the pictures. I put them all together using Gimp.
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| current | 18:50, 13 May 2006 | 1,140×1,428 (542 KB) | Alejo2083 | ( == Summary == {{Information| |Description= the picture shows the difference between the DFT and a DCT of an image |Source= I made it by myself |Date= 13/05/2006 |Author= Alessio Damato |Permission= multilicensed (see below) |other_versions= the original) |
