Optimal 4-8 Mesh simplification

Laurent L Balmelli balmelli at us.ibm.com
Wed Mar 7 10:31:21 PST 2001


Dear Computational Geometry Lovers,

My PhD thesis,

     RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMAL MESH SIMPLIFICATION FOR COMMUNICATIONS
                              Laboratory for Audio-Visual Communications
                     Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL), Switzerland

is available in pdf format at
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/b/balmelli/
See the topics covered below.


all the best

Laurent Balmelli, Research Staff Member
IBM Research Division

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TOPICS COVERED

                    (1) Conceptual system for the transmission of textured
meshes,
                    (2) Analysis of a set of approximation algorithms for
the polyline in the
                    computation-rate-distortion sense,
                    (3) Analysis in computational geometry of binary
subdivided meshes, also
                    known as 4-8 meshes,
                    (4) Efficient quadtree data structure for subdivision
surfaces providing O(1)
                    neighbor-finding access methods,
                    (5) Optimal mesh simplification in the Rate-Distortion
Sense,
                    (6) Joint Mesh-Texture optimization using Marginal
Analysis.


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