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Optimized MPEG-4 animation encoder for motion capture data

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Blagica Jovanova,

Françoise PrêteuxAuthors Info & Claims

Web3D '07: Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on 3D web technology

Pages 181 - 190

https://doi.org/10.1145/1229390.1229425

Published: 15 April 2007 Publication History

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This paper presents first compression results on using the MPEG-4 BBA standard for encoding motion capture data. We first introduce a detailed description of the main compression mechanisms used in recently BBA standard: prediction, frequency transform, quantization and entropy encoder and discuss the theoretical range of encoding performances. Then we introduce an optimized BBA encoder including also a key-frame reduction mechanism and show the compression results on animation files from typical motion capture data-base. We compare the results with the ones reported in literature showing the advantages of the MPEG-4 BBA in terms of bit-rate, complexity and range control.

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Optimized MPEG-4 animation encoder for motion capture data
1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Data structures
      1. Data layout
        Data compression

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Web3D '07: Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on 3D web technology

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ISBN:9781595936523

DOI:10.1145/1229390

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