In this research, Böhler K340 cold work tool steel was subjected to three different heat treatment protocols, conventional (CHT), shallow cryogenic (SCT), and deep (DCT). The study compares the effect of SCT DCT on microstructure consequently selected mechanical properties (micro- macroscale hardness impact toughness). shows no significant difference in after treatments. However, microhardness ...

Abstract: In paper two types of the discrete cosine (and sine) transforms (DCT/DST) are analyzed. These transforms are useful for many applications. It is shown that if an operator, connected with the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), is referred to an appropriate basis it takes block-diagonal form. These blocks coincide with DCT-2/DST-2 for even dimensions of the signals’ space and with DCT6/D...

─ The Discrete Tchebichef Transform (DTT) based on orthogonal Tchebichef polynomials can be an alternative to Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for JPEG image compression standard. The properties of DTT are not only very similar to DCT; it has also higher energy compactness and lower computational advantage using a set of recurrence relation. Through extensive simulation, image reconstruction acc...

2-D Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) applies on image data compression and saves more memories. In this paper, we use fast DCT algorithm, and propose a parallel-pipelined architecture to implement a 8 8× DCT/IDCT processor. This architecture involves two 8-point DCT processors, dual-bank of SRAM (128 words) and the coefficient ROM, three multiplexers, timing controller and 7-bit counter. The ker...

DCT-based image/video coding is still popular now. In this paper, a novel embedded image coding scheme based on integer reversible DCT is proposed. It integrates lossy and lossless coding schemes perfectly. The transform is implemented by factoring the float DCT transform matrix into a series of integer reversible transform matrices. We apply the series of matrices to image samples, and encode ...

In this paper, modeling of optimized Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) with reduced hardware and implementation of JPEG Image compression in MATLAB is presented. DCT is the heart of the JPEG image compression. The computation of DCT is hardware intensive and power consumption is also very high. In JPEG Image Compression pipeline, a quantizer follows the DCT. Such structural pipeline is advantageo...

Alternative fully DCT-based video codec architectures have been proposed in the past to address the shortcomings of the conventional hybrid motion compensated DCT video codec structures traditionally chosen as the basis of implementation of standardcompliant codecs. However, no prior effort has been made to ensure interoperability of these two drastically different architectures so that fully D...

Image up-sampling in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain is a challenging problem because DCT coefficients are de-correlated, such that it is nontrivial to estimate directly high-frequency DCT coefficients from observed low-frequency DCT coefficients. In the literature, DCT-based up-sampling algorithms usually pad zeros as high-frequency DCT coefficients or estimate such coefficients wit...

This paper proposes two optimal Cordic Loeffler based DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform algorithm) architectures: a fast and low Power DCT architecture and a high PSNR DCT architecture. The rotation parameters of CORDIC angles required for these architectures have been calculated using a MATLAB script. This script allows the variation of the angle’s precision from 10−1 to 10−4. The experimental re...

The paper presents novel recursive algorithms for realization of one-dimensional type-II discrete cosine transform (DCT) and inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) of any length. By using some mathematical techniques, recursive expressions for DCT and IDCT have been developed. The number of additions and multiplications in the recursive algorithm for DCT are less in comparison with some other...