This document discusses a DSP project that aims to compress digital images using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). It begins by introducing the team members working on the project and explains that image compression is important because it reduces the large amount of storage space required for digital images. It then describes the mechanisms of lossy and lossless compression. The document outlines the steps of the DCT compression algorithm, which involves converting the image to grayscale, applying the DCT, quantizing coefficients, and reconstructing the image. It also discusses how the user can select a quality level to control the balance between compression and quality. In testing with an example image, the algorithm was able to reduce the file size by over 40% with little quality