Two-dimensional discrete cosine transform on sliding windows

The discrete cosine transform (DCT) has been successfully used for a wide range of applications in digital signal processing. While there are efficient algorithms for implementing the DCT, its use becomes difficult in the sliding transform scenario where the transform window is shifted one sample at a time and the transform process is repeated. In this paper, a new two-dimensional sliding DCT (2-D SDCT) algorithm is proposed for fast implementation of the DCT on 2-D sliding windows. In the proposed algorithm, the DCT coefficients of the shifted window are computed by exploiting the recursive relationship between 2-D DCT outputs of three successive windows. The theoretical analysis shows that the computational requirement of the proposed 2-D SDCT algorithm is the lowest among existing 2-D DCT algorithms. Moreover, the proposed algorithm enables independent updating of each DCT coefficient.