High-quality mipmapping texture compression with alpha maps for graphics processing units

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 589-599

  Sun, Chih Hao ^a   Tsao, You Ming ^a   Chien, Shao Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Graphics hardware; Graphics processing unit; Mobile graphics; Texture compression

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CHANNEL; COLOR SPACE; DIFFERENTIAL MODE; DIRECTX; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HARDWARE COST; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; HIGH IMAGE QUALITY; HIGH QUALITY; LAYER OVERLAPPING; LINEAR PREDICTION; LOW MEMORY; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MOBILE GRAPHICS; SIMULATION RESULT; TEXTURE COMPRESSION; TEXTURE MEMORY; TWO CHANNEL; VLSI IMPLEMENTATION;

BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 67349243331     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2009.2017637     Document Type: Article

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