meaning of frequency domain for images and video

hi,
  ive seen that transforms takes signals from time domain to frequency
domain. this case is evident in audio and speech coding. but what does
frequency mean in images and video? is there something similar to
oscillations as in audio signals in freq domain.

please do help
TIA..

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Jagadeesh

jagadeeshbp@gmail.com wrote:
> hi,
>   ive seen that transforms takes signals from time domain to frequency
> domain. this case is evident in audio and speech coding. but what does
> frequency mean in images and video? is there something similar to
> oscillations as in audio signals in freq domain.
> 
> please do help
> TIA..
> 
> --
> Jagadeesh

That's an interesting question with an interesting answer. It's easy to 
imagine a picture that consists of a series of parallel bars in some 
direction. A Ronchi grating is an example with a square intensity 
profile, and sinusoidal profiles are possible. Frequency in picture land 
is measured not in cycles per second, but in cycles per unit length.

Jerry
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Jerry Avins wrote:
> jagadeeshbp@gmail.com wrote:
> > hi,
> >   ive seen that transforms takes signals from time domain to frequency
> > domain. this case is evident in audio and speech coding. but what does
> > frequency mean in images and video? is there something similar to
> > oscillations as in audio signals in freq domain.
> >
> > please do help
> > TIA..
> >
> > --
> > Jagadeesh
>
> That's an interesting question with an interesting answer. It's easy to
> imagine a picture that consists of a series of parallel bars in some
> direction. A Ronchi grating is an example with a square intensity
> profile, and sinusoidal profiles are possible. Frequency in picture land
> is measured not in cycles per second, but in cycles per unit length.
>
> Jerry
> --
> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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Thank you for that reply. Im still a beginner in DSP. I cant get how a
cycle comes into picture. Is it the length over which the a pixel value
goes from black to white and then back or vice versa. Or is it
something else. Again how can I see that Ronchi grating has a square
intensity profile as you had mentioned.

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Jagadeesh Bhaskar P

jagadeeshbp@gmail.com wrote:

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>                                                       I can't get how a
> cycle comes into picture. Is it the length over which the a pixel value
> goes from black to white and then back or vice versa. Or is it
> something else. Again how can I see that Ronchi grating has a square
> intensity profile as you had mentioned.

A cycle is exactly what you imagine; the distance from crest to crest or 
trough to trough. Unless the grating is parallel to an axis, the 
wavelength along an axis is greater than the wavelength measured along a 
line normal to the grating lines. One needs to be careful what one calls 
THE wavelength (or its reciprocal, spatial frequency.

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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Jag,

find a old video test pattern that has resolution wedges and is
calibrated in MHz.  That may help you understand.

Mark