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+## Copyright (C) 2001 Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@users.sf.net>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## y = dct (x, n)
+## Computes the discrete cosine transform of x. If n is given, then
+## x is padded or trimmed to length n before computing the transform.
+## If x is a matrix, compute the transform along the columns of the
+## the matrix. The transform is faster if x is real-valued and even
+## length.
+##
+## The discrete cosine transform X of x can be defined as follows:
+##
+## N-1
+## X[k] = w(k) sum x[n] cos (pi (2n+1) k / 2N ), k = 0, ..., N-1
+## n=0
+##
+## with w(0) = sqrt(1/N) and w(k) = sqrt(2/N), k = 1, ..., N-1. There
+## are other definitions with different scaling of X[k], but this form
+## is common in image processing.
+##
+## See also: idct, dct2, idct2, dctmtx
+
+## From Discrete Cosine Transform notes by Brian Evans at UT Austin,
+## http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/courses/ee381k/lectures/09_DCT/lecture9/
+## the discrete cosine transform of x at k is as follows:
+##
+## N-1
+## X[k] = sum 2 x[n] cos (pi (2n+1) k / 2N )
+## n=0
+##
+## which can be computed using:
+##
+## y = [ x ; flipud (x) ]
+## Y = fft(y)
+## X = exp( -j pi [0:N-1] / 2N ) .* Y
+##
+## or for real, even length x
+##
+## y = [ even(x) ; flipud(odd(x)) ]
+## Y = fft(y)
+## X = 2 real { exp( -j pi [0:N-1] / 2N ) .* Y }
+##
+## Scaling the result by w(k)/2 will give us the desired output.
+
+function y = dct (x, n)
+
+ if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
+ print_usage;
+ endif
+
+ realx = isreal(x);
+ transpose = (rows (x) == 1);
+
+ if transpose, x = x (:); endif
+ [nr, nc] = size (x);
+ if nargin == 1
+ n = nr;
+ elseif n > nr
+ x = [ x ; zeros(n-nr,nc) ];
+ elseif n < nr
+ x (nr-n+1 : n, :) = [];
+ endif
+
+ if n == 1
+ w = 1/2;
+ else
+ w = [ sqrt(1/4/n); sqrt(1/2/n)*exp((-1i*pi/2/n)*[1:n-1]') ] * ones (1, nc);
+ endif
+ if ( realx && rem (n, 2) == 0 )
+ y = fft ([ x(1:2:n,:) ; x(n:-2:1,:) ]);
+ y = 2 * real( w .* y );
+ else
+ y = fft ([ x ; flipud(x) ]);
+ y = w .* y (1:n, :);
+ if (realx) y = real (y); endif
+ endif
+ if transpose, y = y.'; endif
+
+endfunction