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I know how to compute the 1D FFT (and interpret values from 0 to Nyq). When computing the 2D FFT, do we compute the FFT of row[1] then the FFT of row[2] then the FFT of row[3] up to the last row. And then compute the FFT of col[1] col[2] for each of columns across ? But to report the RESULT of the 2D FFT ( do we report the complex value of each final row from col[0] to col[N/2] for each row from top to bottom ?

What INFO does the 2D complex FFT result convey ?

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Yes, due to the separability of the kernel :

$$e^{-j \left(\frac{2\pi}{N_1} n_1 k_1 + \frac{2\pi}{N_2} n_2 k_2 \right) } = e^{-j \frac{2\pi}{N_1} n_1 k_1} \cdot e^{-j \frac{2\pi}{N_2} n_2 k_2}$$

the 2D-DFT sum $$X[k_1,k_2] = \sum_{n_1} \sum_{n_2} f[n_1,n_2] e^{-j \frac{2\pi}{N_1} n_1 k_1} e^{-j \frac{2\pi}{N_2} n_2 k_2} $$

can be implemented using row-column (or column-row) decompositions.

$$X[k_1,k_2] = \sum_{n_1} \left( \sum_{n_2} f[n_1,n_2] e^{-j \frac{2\pi}{N_2} n_2 k_2} \right) e^{-j \frac{2\pi}{N_1} n_1 k_1} $$

The following MATLAB/OCTAVE code shows how to apply :

N = 8;            % length of columns-rows 
x = randn(N,N);   % row data

X = fft(x,N) ;    % 1D-fft along columns of x[n1,n2]
X = fft(X.',N).' ;% 1D-fft along rows of intermediate X[k1,k2]
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  • $\begingroup$ For 3d-grid, how to perform FFT? X = fft(X.',N).' ;% 1D-fft along rows of intermediate X[k1,k2] This I do no understand. $\endgroup$
    – jomegaA
    Feb 7, 2020 at 11:02

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