“…In fact, the DCT is a robust approximation for the optimal Karhunen-Loève transform when first-order Markov signals, such as images, are considered [12,30,38].Indeed, the DCT has found application in several image and video coding schemes [5,12], such as JPEG [36], , , H.261 [23], H.263 [24], and H.264 [32, 46, 51].Through the decades signal processing literature has been populated with efficient methods for the DCT computation, collectively known as fast algorithms. This can be observed in several works with efficient hardware and software implementations, including [2,3,13,14,17,21,31,44]. Methods such as the Arai DCT algorithm [2] can greatly reduced the number of arithmetic operations required for the DCT evaluation.…”