  This work presents an analysis of Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition
(HO-SVD) applied to lossy compression of 3D mesh animations. We describe
strategies for choosing a number of preserved spatial and temporal components
after tensor decomposition. Compression error is measured using three metrics
(MSE, Hausdorff, MSDM). Results are compared with a method based on Principal
Component Analysis (PCA) and presented on a set of animations with typical mesh
deformations.
