Progressive Lossless Mesh Compression Via Incremental Parametric Refinement
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2009
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel progressive lossless mesh compression algorithm based on Incremental Parametric Refinement, where the connectivity is uncontrolled in a first step, yielding visually pleasing meshes at each resolution level while saving connectivity information compared to previous approaches. The algorithm starts with a coarse version of the original mesh, which is further refined by means of a novel refinement scheme. The mesh refinement is driven by a geometric criterion, in spirit with surface reconstruction algorithms, aiming at generating uniform meshes. The vertices coordinates are also quantized and transmitted in a progressive way, following a geometric criterion, efficiently allocating the bit budget. With this assumption, the generated intermediate meshes tend to exhibit a uniform sampling. The potential discrepancy between the resulting connectivity and the original one is corrected at the end of the algorithm. We provide a proof-of-concept implementation, yielding very competitive results compared to previous works in terms of rate/distortion trade-off.
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@article{10.1111:j.1467-8659.2009.01507.x,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Progressive Lossless Mesh Compression Via Incremental Parametric Refinement}},
author = {Valette, Sebastien and Chaine, Raphaelle and Prost, Remy},
year = {2009},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01507.x}
}