In this work, a new order-8 dyadic transform (DT) is developed for ima
ge compression. Implementation of DT is very simple that it can be com
puted using a fast algorithm with operations of addition and binary sh
ift only. Various evaluations show that the performance of the new tra
nsform is very close to DCT and there is a certain degree of compatibi
lity between DCT and DT. (C) 1997 Academic Press.