Spectral compression of mesh geometry

  • Authors:
  • Zachi Karni;Craig Gotsman

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel;Computer Science Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We show how spectral methods may be applied to 3D mesh data to obtain compact representations. This is achieved by projecting the mesh geometry onto an orthonormal basis derived from the mesh topology. To reduce complexity, the mesh is partitioned into a number of balanced submeshes with minimal interaction, each of which are compressed independently. Our methods may be used for compression and progressive transmission of 3D content, and are shown to be vastly superior to existing methods using spatial techniques, if slight loss can be tolerated.