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3D Game Content Distributed Adaptation in Heterogeneous Environments

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2007, Article number: 093027 (2007) Cite this article

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Most current multiplayer 3D games can only be played on a single dedicated platform (a particular computer, console, or cell phone), requiring specifically designed content and communication over a predefined network. Below we show how, by using signal processing techniques such as multiresolution representation and scalable coding for all the components of a 3D graphics object (geometry, texture, and animation), we enable online dynamic content adaptation, and thus delivery of the same content over heterogeneous networks to terminals with very different profiles, and its rendering on them. We present quantitative results demonstrating how the best displayed quality versus computational complexity versus bandwidth tradeoffs have been achieved, given the distributed resources available over the end-to-end content delivery chain. Additionally, we use state-of-the-art, standardised content representation and compression formats (MPEG-4 AFX, JPEG 2000, XML), enabling deployment over existing infrastructure, while keeping hooks to well-established practices in the game industry.

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  1. Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Francisco Morán

  2. Département ARTEMIS, Institut National des Télécommunications, Évry, 91011, France

    Marius Preda

  3. DESICS, Interuniversitair Micro Electronica Centrum, Leuven, 3001, Belgium

    Gauthier Lafruit

  4. Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Boecillo, 47151, Spain

    Paulo Villegas

  5. Philips Research, Eindhoven, 5656 AE, The Netherlands

    Robert-Paul Berretty

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Morán, F., Preda, M., Lafruit, G. et al. 3D Game Content Distributed Adaptation in Heterogeneous Environments. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2007, 093027 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/93027

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