Predictive Generalized Graph Fourier Transform for Attribute Compression of Dynamic Point Clouds
As 3D scanning devices and depth sensors advance, dynamic point clouds have attracted increasing attention as a format for 3D objects in motion, with applications in various fields such as tele-presence, navigation for autonomous driving and heritage reconstruction. Nevertheless, the tremendous amount of data in dynamic point clouds significantly burden transmission and storage. We thus propose a complete compression framework for attributes of 3D dynamic point clouds, focusing on optimal inter-coding. Firstly, we derive the optimal inter-prediction and predictive transform coding assuming the Gaussian Markov Random Field model for attributes of dynamic point clouds, where the optimal predictive transform proves to be the Generalized Graph Fourier Transform (GGFT). Secondly, we propose refined motion estimation via efficient registration prior to inter-prediction, which searches the temporal correspondence between adjacent frames of point clouds. Finally, we construct a complete framework based on the optimal inter-coding and our previously proposed intra-coding, where we determine the optimal coding mode from rate-distortion optimization with the proposed offline-trained λ-Q model. Experimental results show that we achieve 13.4 average and up to 25.8 Transform method.
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