Lifting Wavelet Coding with Permutation and Coefficients Modification for Structured 3-D Geometry with Expanded Nodes

One promising method for coding 3D geometry is based on the structure processing of a 3-D model on triangle lattice planes, while maintaining connectivity. In the structuring process, each vertex may be assigned to several nodes on the triangular lattice planes. One of the nodes to which a vertex is assigned is selected as a representative node and the others are called expanded nodes. Only geometry data of the vertices at the representative nodes are required for reconstructing the 3D model. In this paper we apply a lifting wavelet transform with the permuting and modifying process for an expanded node at even locations and the neighboring representative node to reduce the correlations among the separated coordinate values in the lower frequency band. Experimental results show the proposed scheme gives better coding performance compared to the usual schemes.