OpenCV Programming with Python on Linux Ubuntu Tutorial-17 Discrete Cosine Transform

Tutorial on how to apply the Discrete Cosine Transform on a selected image using Python, Numpy, and OpenCV on 64bit Linux Ubuntu 13.04 OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Adopted all around the world, OpenCV has more than 47 thousand people in their user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 6 million. Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics. helpful links: http://opencv.org/books.html http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/doc/py_tutorials/py_tutorials.html http://www.cgjennings.ca/toybox/hjpeg/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCbCr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/%7Emaucher/Python/MMCodecs/html/transforms.html#discrete-cosine-transform-dct for source code download visit my website: http://www.stemapks.com/