Space-Efficient Boundary Representation of Volumetric Objects [article]

Lukas Mroz, Helwig Hauser
2001 EUROVIS 2005: Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization  
In this paper we present a compression technique for efficiently representing boundary objects from volumetric data-sets. Exploiting spatial coherency within object contours, we are able to reduce the size of the volumetric boundary down to the size of just a few images. Allowing for direct volume rendering of the down-scaled data in addition to compression ratios up to 250:1, interactive volume visualization becomes possible, even over the Internet and on low-end hardware.
doi:10.2312/vissym/vissym01/193-201 fatcat:jad4twvxzzbmvo7fteh5fs7cri