Predictive image compression for interactive remote visualization

The standard way of remotely visualizing 3D models is by first downloading them to the user´s computer, and then rendering them. This approach is plagued by many problems which can be overcome by moving the rendering at server´s side and by essentially turning interactive visualization into the transmission of user´s prompted images. How to effectively compress the rendered views which need to be transmitted to the client is a fundamental issue within this remote visualization scenario. This work presents a predictive compression scheme for remote visualization based on image based rendering. Its experimental performance is discussed with respect to the use of JPEG and JPEG2000 within it.