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Query Results: companies related to 3D Compression


  • IBM -- Developed MPEG4 Geometry Compression
  • Intel -- Many 3D software tools, helped with Metacreations and Macromedia's products
  • Sun -- Java3D has built-in geometry compression
  • Virtue3D -- Geometry compression startup, based on Gotsman's work
  • Viewpoint -- 3D model company, recently bought metacreations and its compression software
  • Webglide -- Compressed streaming textures, based on Cohen-Or, Siggraph 1999
  • Improv Technologies -- animated, interactive characters from Ken Perlin
  • Ipix -- image-based 3D movies
  • Hewlett-Packard -- Variety of research and development in 3D graphics
  • Apple's Quicktime VR -- Image based 3D, viewable in any Quictime Viewer

    Query Results: conferences related to 3D Compression


  • SIGGRAPH -- leading graphics conference
  • IEEE Visualization 2000
  • Data Compression Conference -- more on the info theory/sig proc side than the graphics side
  • I3D2001 -- ACM Symposion on Interactive 3D -- often has papers on fast rendering, simplification, image-based m
  • Pacific Graphics 2000
  • Graphics Interface -- a Canadian graphics conference, gets many good papers
  • SIGGRAPH-affiliated conferences -- a wide variety of conferences with some degree of sponsorship or help from ACM SIGGRAPH
  • Visualization 2001 -- big visualization conference, usually a whole session on compression
  • Eurographics 2001 -- biggest European graphics conference
  • Eurographics 2000 -- proceedings
  • Solid Modeling 20001 -- ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling, close ties to CAD and industry, often compression papers
  • CCCG 2000 -- Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, has had some more theoretical compression papers
  • CCCG 1999 -- Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry

    Query Results: downloads related to 3D Compression


  • Virtuso Optimizer -- converts 3d models to content for virtue3D's player
  • Virtuso Player -- Click downloads-virtuso player in order to load decompression plugin
  • IBM HotMedia -- Free Download, many web effects including MPEG4 compression/decompression
  • Java3D API Demo -- javahouse demo of the Java 3D API
  • 3D models for download -- see our 'models' page
  • Compression Engines Demo -- demo of 3D compression for volumetric/voxel data
  • Ipix plugin download -- download plugin to view ipix's 360 images and movies
  • DesignWorkShopLite -- a free architectural model viewer
  • Progressive Geometry Compression De -- Demo of Schroeder's Decompression. Does not include remeshing tools needed for encoding
  • Quicktime Player -- used for viewing Quicktime VR and movies
  • Heresy Triangle Mesh Compression -- Mitra and Chiueh, Stony Brook, published in Hardware Workshop 1998
  • IBM compressed VRML draft 4 plugin -- plugin to view compressed VRML. Draft standard, wasn't adopted officially
  • VRML compression model converter -- from IBM, create compressed VRML models
  • MPEG4 implementation w/ source -- from INT-SIM in France

    Query Results: models related to 3D Compression


  • Georgia Tech Large Models Archive -- collection of large polygon models for research
  • Viewpoint Datalabs -- 1000's of models, some free samples
  • Cyberware -- Free samples of range scanned models
  • Digital Michelangelo Models -- Large models of Michelangelo statues. License required, research use only.
  • Fort Irwin Terrain VRML file -- a terrain/elevation dataset from the military
  • GreatBuildings.com -- extensive collection of architectural models of real buildings
  • 3D Cafe -- free models, mostly textured, and info on 3d modeling

    Query Results: patents related to 3D Compression


  • 6,167,159 -- Touma&Gotsman;'s valence-based mesh compression
  • 6,046,744 -- Hoppe's Selective Refinement of Progressive Meshes
  • 5,590,248 -- Zarge&Schroeder;'s Mesh Decimation/Simplification Algorithm
  • 5,793,371 -- Deering's Compression used in Java3D
  • 5,825,369 -- Rossignac&Taubin;'s Topological Surgery
  • 6,047,088 -- vanBeek&Tekalp; -- dynamic 2D meshes
  • 5,736,987 -- Drucker&Mitchell;'s compression method for normals
  • 5,818,463 -- Tao et al. -- a method for animated 3D model compression using quads, 1998
  • 5,905,507 -- Rossignac&Taubin;'s Topological Surgery for generalized models
  • 5,929,860 -- Hoppe's Progressive Meshes
  • 5,963,209 -- Hoppe's Progressive Meshes -- Encoding and transmission
  • 5,966,133 -- Hoppe's Progressive Meshes -- Geomorphs and variable resolution
  • 5,966,140 -- Popovic&Hoppe;'s Progressive Simplicial Complices
  • 6,009,435 -- Taubin -- level of detail method that sends the highest LOD connectivity first plus cluster info
  • 6,031,548 -- Gueziec,Lazarus,Taubin -- Progressive Multi-level transmission
  • 6,016,153 -- Gueziec&Taubin; -- Cutting&Stitching;
  • 6,175,369 -- Dyer (HP) -- Fast decompression of surface normals
  • 6,169,819 -- Dyer (HP) -- Fast compression of surface normals
  • 6,169,549 -- Burr, 2001, method for continuous LOD control
  • 6,088,034 -- Deering's Java3D -- surface normal decompression
  • 5,870,094 -- Deering's Java3D -- system for transferring compressed 3D
  • 5,867,167 -- Deering's Java3D compression
  • 5,842,004 -- Deering's Java3D decompression
  • 6,028,610 -- Deering's Java3D -- geometry instructions for decompression
  • 5,933,153 -- Deering's Java3D -- mesh buffer for decompression
  • 5,905,502 -- Deering's Generalized Triangle Mesh compression
  • 6,144,773 -- Kolarov et all -- wavelets on M-d manifolds -- key patent for encoding geometry and attribs

    Query Results: related links related to 3D Compression


  • Multiresolution Modeling Page -- by Michael Garland, excellent page on simplification
  • Triangle delauney meshing software -- by Jonathan Shewchuk -- best delauney code available
  • Mathsoft's Wavelets page -- great directory of wavelet info
  • Georgia Tech Geometry Group -- research in graphics, geometry, 3D modeling
  • Computer Graphics Bibliograhy -- SIGGRAPH's excellent papers search engine
  • compression and info theory links -- my compression background page
  • ResearchIndex -- Paper citation finder and search engine -- don't do CS research without it!
  • graphicspapers.com -- a directory of papers on computer graphics
  • About.com Web3d page -- directory of web3D and vrml links, demos,etc.
  • DSP directory -- directory of DSP and multimedia research
  • compression pointers -- compression pointers web directory
  • A directory of papers on 3D compres -- by Dinesh Shikhare

    Query Results: researchers related to 3D Compression


  • Davis King
  • Andrzej Szymczak
  • Jarek Rossignac
  • Craig Gotsman
  • Gabriel Taubin
  • Hugues Hoppe
  • Peter Schroeder
  • Jack Snoeyink
  • Stefan Gumhold
  • Martin Isenburg
  • Renato Pajarola
  • Jiankun Li
  • C.-C. J. Kuo
  • Leif Kobbelt
  • Chandrajit Bajaj
  • Hans-Peter Seidel
  • Michael Deering
  • Daniel Cohen-Or
  • Igor Guskov
  • Wim Sweldens
  • Andrei Khodakovsky
  • Mike Chow
  • Guozhong Zhuang
  • Jed Lengyel
  • Tulika Mitra
  • Francoise Preteux
  • Gerard Mozelle
  • Mathieu Desbrun

    Query Results: standards and orgs related to 3D Compression


  • MPEG4 -- MPEG4 Synthetic/Hybrid Coding -- both geometry compression and hybrid geometry/video coding
  • WEB3D -- Lots of companies involved. Replaced VRML consortium.
  • Sun's Java3D standard -- Java3D compression documentation
  • VRML compressed binary working grou -- Based on IBM's topological surgery

    Query Results: wavelet researchers related to 3D Compression


  • Eero Simoncelli -- image compression, neurological vision, and multiscale image models
  • Said and Pearlman -- set partitioning for wavelet image compression
  • Ingrid Daubechies -- leading wavelet researcher

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