Hello,
I want to perform a convolution with the clAmdFft library (by the way: good work!). The input data and the convolution kernel are both real.
The general procedure is:
transform input A
transform kernel B
multiply the results componentwise
transform back the product
in words: A o B = iFT[FT * FT]
I've implemented it with complex-to-complex (C2C) transformations only and it works fine. The resulting convolution is real data only. Because I have also other operations (kernels) dealing with the input data, I have to expand the buffer A from real to complex then convolve it and then reduce the results from complex to real. This looks somewhat unnecessary for me ...
Here's the question: Do I have to perform a complex-to-complex FFT in the convolution algorithm? Or might it be sufficient to use real-to-complex (R2C) transformation for A and B, gaining hermitian data and then use complex-to-real (C2R) for inverse transforming the componentwise product? I.e.:
A o B = iC2R_FT[R2C_FT * R2C_FT]