A method for efficient spatial domain filtering, directly in the discrete c
osine transform (DCT) domain, is developed and proposed, It consists of usi
ng the discrete sine transform (DST) and the DCT for transform-domain proce
ssing on the basis of recently derived convolution-multiplication propertie
s of discrete trigonometric transforms. The proposed scheme requires neithe
r zero padding of the input data nor kernel symmetry. It is demonstrated th
at, in typical applications, the proposed algorithm is significantly more e
fficient than the conventional spatial domain and earlier proposed DCT doma
in methods. The proposed method is applicable to any DCT-based image compre
ssion standard, such as JPEG, MPEG, and H.261.