DCT-History - How I Came Up With The Discrete Cosine Transform
Nasir ahmed came up with the discrete cosine transform (dct) in 1972. The KLT was the optimal transform, but there was no efficient algorithm available to compute it. He wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) 1051.2004 / 91$1.
DCT-History - How I Came Up With The Discrete Cosine Transform