This document discusses properties of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) for 2D signals. It outlines properties including periodicity, conjugation, rotation, distributivity, scaling, and convolution/correlation. It also discusses how the fast Fourier transform (FFT) reduces the computational complexity of the DFT from O(N^4) to O(N^2logN) for 2D signals with N samples. The properties of the DFT allow operations in the frequency domain to correspond to operations in the spatial domain, which makes the Fourier transform useful for applications like image processing and computer vision.