A demonstration of MobiTree: progressive 3D tree models streaming on mobile clients

We demonstrate MobiTree, a system we built that allows progressive streaming and rendering of 3D tree models on a mobile phone. MobiTree enables user to retrieve not only typical media describing a species (such as text and image), but also a 3D model that yields detail information about the structure of the branches and the foliage. MobiTree adopts our previous proposed progressive representation to speed up display of trees at the mobile client, trading off latency and quality. Progressivity also allows MobiTree to flexibly adopt the level of details to the capability of the mobile devices. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous General Terms Design, Human Factors Keywords Streaming, Plant Models, Progressive Coding, Progressive Transmission, Mobile Applications

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MM
• Authors: Andra Doran, Sebastien Mondet, Romulus Grigoras, Géraldine Morin, Wei Tsang Ooi, Frédéric Boudon
• Keywords: MM 2009, Mobile Phone, Multimedia, Progressive Representation, Progressive Streaming