Methods and apparatuses for compressing and/or transmitting and/or receiving
data representing different views of an object. In one method according to the
present invention, the method stores a plurality of frames of an object wherein
each of these frames represents a view of the object. The method then assigns a
reference number to each of these frames, arranges these frames in a preferred
layout, divides the preferred layout into a plurality of blocks having frames sharing
spatial similarities, and compresses each of these blocks separately.