17-1 A Study on Compression of Surface Light Fields Using Wavelets

Abstract

Surface Light Fields(SLF) are light fields parameterized to the surface of a geometric model. Although SLF enable generation of an arbitrary view image with high-quality, the amount of data is huge. In order to enable efficient transmission and storage, data compression is needed. In this paper, we propose a data compression scheme which enable both progressive compression and memory efficient rendering, and investigate its performance and its characteristics by experiments.