A new IDCT-DFT relationship reducing the IDCT computational cost

This paper reconsiders the discrete cosine transform (DCT) algorithm of Narashima and Peterson (1978) in order to reduce the computational cost of the evaluation of N-point inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) through an N-point FFT. A new relationship between the IDCT and the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is established. It allows the evaluation of two simultaneous N-point IDCTs by computing a single FFT of the same dimension. This IDCT implementation technique reduces by half the number of operations.