“…dynamic meshes), which may be associated with colour information or texture maps. For its transmission, protection, visualization or manipulation (Chowdhuri, Chakraborty, Dey, Azar, Megeed Salem, Chaudhury & Banerjee 2014;Chowdhuri, Roy, Goswami, Azar, Dey, 2014), this 3D content is subject to a wide variety of processing operations such as compression, filtering, simplification, watermarking and so forth. These operations introduce distortions which may alter the visual quality of the 3D content; this is a critical issue, as these processing operations are often targeted at humancentered applications with viewing as the intended use.…”