Unless I'm missing a connection you've made, no. You might have been exposed to the singular-value decomposition to compress a matrix, and representing an imag

Unless I'm missing a connection you've made, no. You might have been exposed to the singular-value decomposition to compress a matrix, and representing an image as a matrix e.g. [1]. JPEG encoding is about transforming the signal into a frequency domain (think FFTs) where it is less detrimental to throw away information. If there is a connection to what you're saying, I expect you should try to make some statement about the eigenvalues of the DCT matrix [2] [1] http://www.math.utah.edu/~goller/F15_M2270/BradyMathews_SVDImage.pdf http://www.math.utah.edu/~goller/F15_M2270/BradyMathews_SVDI... [2] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/962533/why-does-the-discrete-cosine-transform-as-matrix-multiplication-work-this-way https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/962533/why-does-the...