3d mesh compression: Survey, comparisons, and emerging trends

A Maglo, G Lavoué, F Dupont, C Hudelot - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
3D meshes are commonly used to represent virtual surface and volumes. However, their raw
data representations take a large amount of space. Hence, 3D mesh compression has been …

Edgebreaker: Connectivity compression for triangle meshes

J Rossignac - IEEE transactions on visualization and computer …, 1999‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edgebreaker is a simple scheme for compressing the triangle/vertex incidence graphs
(sometimes called connectivity or topology) of three-dimensional triangle meshes …

[PDF][PDF] Dynapack: space-time compression of the 3D animations of triangle meshes with fixed connectivity.

L Ibarria, J Rossignac - Symposium on Computer Animation, 2003‏ - academia.edu
Dynapack exploits space-time coherence to compress the consecutive frames of the 3D
animations of triangle meshes of constant connectivity. Instead of compressing each frame …

Curvature and torsion estimators based on parametric curve fitting

T Lewiner, JD Gomes Jr, H Lopes, M Craizer - Computers & Graphics, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Many applications of geometry processing and computer vision rely on geometric properties
of curves, particularly, their curvature. Several methods have already been proposed to …

Optimal discrete Morse functions for 2-manifolds

T Lewiner, H Lopes, G Tavares - Computational Geometry, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Morse theory is a powerful tool in its applications to computational topology, computer
graphics and geometric modeling. It was originally formulated for smooth manifolds …

Applications of Forman's discrete Morse theory to topology visualization and mesh compression

T Lewiner, H Lopes, G Tavares - IEEE Transactions on …, 2004‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Morse theory is a powerful tool for investigating the topology of smooth manifolds. It has
been widely used by the computational topology, computer graphics, and geometric …

[PDF][PDF] Constructing discrete Morse functions

T Lewiner - Master's thesis, Department of Mathematics, PUC …, 2002‏ - thomas.lewiner.org
Abstract Lewiner, Thomas; Lopes, Hélio Côrtes Vieira; Santos, Geovan Tavares dos.
Constructing Discrete Morse Functions. Rio de Janeiro, 2002. 89p. MsC Thesis …

Arc-length based curvature estimator

T Lewiner, JD Gomes, H Lopes… - … Brazilian symposium on …, 2004‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many applications of geometry processing and computer vision rely on geometric properties
of curves, particularly their curvature. Several methods have been proposed to estimate the …

[PDF][PDF] Geometric discrete Morse complexes

T Lewiner - advised by Hélio Lopes and Geovan Tavares, 2005‏ - cin.ufpe.br
Abstract Lewiner, Thomas; Lopes, Hélio Côrtes Vieira; Santos, Geovan Tavares dos.
Geometric Discrete Morse Complexes. Rio de Janeiro, 2005. 131p. PhD Thesis …

GEncode: Geometry‐driven compression for General Meshes

T Lewiner, M Craizer, H Lopes, S Pesco… - Computer Graphics …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Performances of actual mesh compression algorithms vary significantly depending on the
type of model it encodes. These methods rely on prior assumptions on the mesh to be …