Wavelet Based 3D Compression with Fast Random Access for Very Large Volume Data

  • Authors:
  • Flemming Friche Rodler

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • PG '99 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1999

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper we propose a wavelet based method for compressing volumetric data with little loss in quality allowing fast random access to individual voxels within the volume. Such a method is important since storing and visualizing very large volumes impose heavy demands on internal memory and external storage facilities, a problem not likely to become less in the future, making it accessible only to users with huge and expensive computers. Experimental results on the CT data-set of the Visible Human have shown that our method provides very high compression rates with fairly fast random access.