The document discusses the 2D discrete Fourier transform (DFT). It defines the 2D DFT and explains that it treats a 2D signal as periodic, resulting in periodicity properties. The 2D DFT can be computed as sequential 1D DFTs along rows and columns due to the separability of its basis functions. It also introduces the related 2D discrete cosine transform (DCT), which uses cosine basis functions.