Hybrid pyramidal/vector-quantized volume compression

Ranjit P. Desai; Jai P. Menon

doi:10.1117/12.269752

Translator Disclaimer

21 March 1997 Hybrid pyramidal/vector-quantized volume compression

Ranjit P. Desai; Jai P. Menon

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 3023, Three-Dimensional Image Capture; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.269752
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Compression and decompression of volume data is gaining increasing importance, especially with wide use of volume visualization techniques in distributed environments. Hitherto researchers have used direct extensions of still- image and video compression techniques to volume data, but these are associated with limitations of scalar quantization. We present an orientation band (ORB) technique for volume compression that exploits orientation information, and consequently preserves structure within the data. The ORB scheme uses a hybrid of lossless (pyramidal) and lossy (vector quantized) techniques to compress within user-specified space and error bounds. The resulting compressed volumes are suited for progressive network transmission and for fast volume rendering.

Citation Download Citation

Ranjit P. Desai and Jai P. Menon "Hybrid pyramidal/vector-quantized volume compression", Proc. SPIE 3023, Three-Dimensional Image Capture, (21 March 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.269752

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE