What is energy compaction?
By energy compaction, we refer to the capability of a transform to redistribute the signal energy into a small number of transform coefficients.
What is energy compaction of Image Transform?
If A is the transformation matrix that is unitary, it can be proved that the energy in x and Ax are same. Energy conservation property. Energy compaction means that the energy of Ax=y is more concentrated in some elements compared to the distribution of energy in x. DCT is said to have energy compaction property.