Towards an Architecture for the Compression of Haptic Media

In this paper, we present I-CHAM, an architecture for the intelligent compression of haptic media. The I-CHAM architecture enables both, lossy and lossless compression modes and it encompasses several modules that, together, attempt to intelligently and efficiently compress a haptic media file. Furthermore, the proposed architecture is designed in such a manner to be haptic-application and device independent. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first in the literature to propose an architecture for the compression of haptic media files. The experimental results demonstrate that I-CHAM can achieve great compression ratios in both, lossless and lossy modes, while preserving the immersiveness of the haptic-based environment.