Learned Nonlinear Predictor for Critically Sampled 3D Point Cloud Attribute Compression

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Main Authors: Do, Tam Thuc, Chou, Philip A., Cheung, Gene
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author Do, Tam Thuc
Chou, Philip A.
Cheung, Gene
author_facet Do, Tam Thuc
Chou, Philip A.
Cheung, Gene
contents We study 3D point cloud attribute compression via a volumetric approach: assuming point cloud geometry is known at both encoder and decoder, parameters $θ$ of a continuous attribute function $f: \mathbb{R}^3 \mapsto \mathbb{R}$ are quantized to $\hatθ$ and encoded, so that discrete samples $f_{\hatθ}(\mathbf{x}_i)$ can be recovered at known 3D points $\mathbf{x}_i \in \mathbb{R}^3$ at the decoder. Specifically, we consider a nested sequences of function subspaces $\mathcal{F}^{(p)}_{l_0} \subseteq \cdots \subseteq \mathcal{F}^{(p)}_L$, where $\mathcal{F}_l^{(p)}$ is a family of functions spanned by B-spline basis functions of order $p$, $f_l^*$ is the projection of $f$ on $\mathcal{F}_l^{(p)}$ represented as low-pass coefficients $F_l^*$, and $g_l^*$ is the residual function in an orthogonal subspace $\mathcal{G}_l^{(p)}$ (where $\mathcal{G}_l^{(p)} \oplus \mathcal{F}_l^{(p)} = \mathcal{F}_{l+1}^{(p)}$) represented as high-pass coefficients $G_l^*$. In this paper, to improve coding performance over \cite{do2023volumetric}, we study predicting $f_{l+1}^*$ at level $l+1$ given $f_l^*$ at level $l$ and encoding of $G_l^*$ for the $p=1$ case (RAHT($1$)). For the prediction, we formalize RAHT(1) linear prediction in MPEG-PCC in a theoretical framework, and propose a new nonlinear predictor using a polynomial of bilateral filter. We derive equations to efficiently compute the critically sampled high-pass coefficients $G_l^*$ amenable to encoding. We optimize parameters in our resulting feed-forward network on a large training set of point clouds by minimizing a rate-distortion Lagrangian. Experimental results show that our improved framework outperforms the MPEG G-PCC predictor by $11\%$--$12\%$ in bit rate.
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spellingShingle Learned Nonlinear Predictor for Critically Sampled 3D Point Cloud Attribute Compression
Do, Tam Thuc
Chou, Philip A.
Cheung, Gene
Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
We study 3D point cloud attribute compression via a volumetric approach: assuming point cloud geometry is known at both encoder and decoder, parameters $θ$ of a continuous attribute function $f: \mathbb{R}^3 \mapsto \mathbb{R}$ are quantized to $\hatθ$ and encoded, so that discrete samples $f_{\hatθ}(\mathbf{x}_i)$ can be recovered at known 3D points $\mathbf{x}_i \in \mathbb{R}^3$ at the decoder. Specifically, we consider a nested sequences of function subspaces $\mathcal{F}^{(p)}_{l_0} \subseteq \cdots \subseteq \mathcal{F}^{(p)}_L$, where $\mathcal{F}_l^{(p)}$ is a family of functions spanned by B-spline basis functions of order $p$, $f_l^*$ is the projection of $f$ on $\mathcal{F}_l^{(p)}$ represented as low-pass coefficients $F_l^*$, and $g_l^*$ is the residual function in an orthogonal subspace $\mathcal{G}_l^{(p)}$ (where $\mathcal{G}_l^{(p)} \oplus \mathcal{F}_l^{(p)} = \mathcal{F}_{l+1}^{(p)}$) represented as high-pass coefficients $G_l^*$. In this paper, to improve coding performance over \cite{do2023volumetric}, we study predicting $f_{l+1}^*$ at level $l+1$ given $f_l^*$ at level $l$ and encoding of $G_l^*$ for the $p=1$ case (RAHT($1$)). For the prediction, we formalize RAHT(1) linear prediction in MPEG-PCC in a theoretical framework, and propose a new nonlinear predictor using a polynomial of bilateral filter. We derive equations to efficiently compute the critically sampled high-pass coefficients $G_l^*$ amenable to encoding. We optimize parameters in our resulting feed-forward network on a large training set of point clouds by minimizing a rate-distortion Lagrangian. Experimental results show that our improved framework outperforms the MPEG G-PCC predictor by $11\%$--$12\%$ in bit rate.
title Learned Nonlinear Predictor for Critically Sampled 3D Point Cloud Attribute Compression
topic Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13539