Scalable Linear Predictive Coding of Time-Consistent 3D Mesh Sequences

We present a linear predictive compression approach for time-consistent 3D mesh sequences supporting and exploiting scalability. The algorithm decomposes each frame of a mesh sequence in layers employing patch-based mesh simplification techniques. This layered decomposition is consistent in time. Following the predictive coding paradigm, local temporal and spatial dependencies between layers and frames are exploited for compression. Prediction is performed vertex-wise from coarse to fine layers exploiting the motion of already encoded 1-ring neighbor vertices for prediction of the current vertex location. It is shown that a predictive exploitation of the proposed layered configuration of vertices can improve the compression performance upon other state-of-the-art approaches by up to 16% in domains relevant for applications.