Chapter 2 – the Discrete Fourier Transform
Ivan W. Selesnick et al. "The Discrete Fourier Transform" The Transform and Data Compression Handbook Ed. K. R. Rao et al. Boca Raton, CRC Press LLC, 2001 © 20001 CRC Press LLC Chapter 2 The Discrete Fourier Transform Ivan W. Selesnick Polytechnic University Gerald Schuller Bell Labs 2.1 Introduction The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is a fundamental transform in digital signal processing, with applications in frequency analysis, fast convolution, image process- ing, etc. Moreover, fast algorithms exist that make it possible to compute the DFT very efficiently. The algorithms for the efficient computation of the DFT are collectively called fast Fourier transforms (FFTs). The historic paper by Cooley and Tukey [15] N N N made well known an FFT of complexity log2 , where is the length of the data vector. A sequence of early papers [3, 11, 13, 14, 15] still serves as a good reference for the DFT and FFT. In addition to texts on digital signal processing, a number of books devote special attention to the DFT and FFT [4, 7, 10, 20, 28, 33, 36, 39, 48]. The importance of Fourier analysis in general is put forth very well by Leon Co- hen [12]: . Bunsen and Kirchhoff, observed (around 1865) that light spectra can be used for recognition, detection, and classification of substances because they are unique to each substance. This idea, along with its extension to other waveforms and the invention of the tools needed to carry out spectral decomposition, certainly ranks as one of the most important discoveries in the history of mankind. The kth DFT coefficient of a length N sequence {x(n)} is defined as N−1 kn X(k) = x(n) WN ,k= 0,...,N − 1 (2.1) n=0 where π π W = e−j2π/N = 2 − j 2 N cos N sin N nk is the principal N-th root of unity.
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