The document discusses compressing a 512x512 image using the discrete cosine transform (DCT) technique. It involves breaking the image into 8x8 pixel chunks, applying DCT to each chunk, dropping frequencies with small contributions based on a 10% tolerance threshold, and converting back with pixel values clipped between 0-255. The task is to write a Python function called compress_chunk() that takes an 8x8 chunk as input, compresses it using the described DCT technique, and returns the compressed chunk with pixel values between 0-255. This function would then be used to construct and return the compressed image.