Jongwook Jin (20025299) jwjin@vr.kaist.ac.kr VR Lab, CS Dep, KAIST

SEP/22/2002

Title : Mobile Geo – Info – Service Project

Problem Definition:

To service geological 3D map information on the low bandwidth wireless network, we need proper transfer mechanism of 3D models.

Motivation:

Very complex 3D model is too heavy to transfer on the low bandwidth network. To service massive geological information, we must adopt some geometric simplification mechanism to transfer 3D models on the low bandwidth network.

Approach:

Initially, geological map has 2D connectivity which reduces the complexity of 3D model simplification method. With the methods[1][2], the 3D geometry information can be transfer with progressive fashion. This progressive transmission will reduce the user's await and details of 3D model will go higher with time.

For the geometric data of initial service, the geometric data comes from height level image. Off-line S/W will sample the height image to make height blocks. User will request one of them to server.

After building mobile service, experiment finds the optimal configurations with given 3D model sets for mobile service. Experiments are the following:

1. Usability

2. Empirical server and client configuration

 

Schedule

OCT/28      Off-line geometry simplification method

NOV/7       Complete the On-line service with TCP-IP

on top of IEEE 802.11.

NOV/15      Experiment of usability

NOV/30      Empirical configuration of service

 

Deliverable:

The results will be

1. Analysis of usability and empirical configuration of mobile service

2. Off-line map simplification with high resolution image

3. On-line server and client

4. Korea area height map information

 

 

Reference list

[1] Hoppe, H. Progressive meshes. SIGGRAPH 1996, pp 99-108

[2] Hoppe, H. View-Dependent Refinement of Progressive Meshes.
 Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 1997 Proceedings), pages 189-198.

 

Remark