Geometric compression of a quadrilateral mesh

A new progressive compression algorithm for arbitrary topology with highly detailed triangle meshes is proposed in this paper. We firstly parameterize the original triangle mesh to a regular quadrilateral approximation. A wavelet transform is then applied to the approximation to remove a large amount of correlation between neighboring vertices. Finally, We used low cost zerotree coding and subdivision based reconstruction to build a sequence of progressive models. Our method will greatly reduce the cost of transportation with acceptable quality loss as shown in the experimental results. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.