Towards Practical Lossless Neural Compression for LiDAR Point Clouds
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| author | Yu, Pengpeng Li, Haoran Jiang, Runqing Li, Dingquan Wang, Jing Lin, Liang Guo, Yulan |
| author_facet | Yu, Pengpeng Li, Haoran Jiang, Runqing Li, Dingquan Wang, Jing Lin, Liang Guo, Yulan |
| contents | LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To address this challenge, we propose a compact representation for efficient predictive lossless coding. Our framework comprises two lightweight modules. First, the Geometry Re-Densification Module iteratively densifies encoded sparse geometry, extracts features at a dense scale, and then sparsifies the features for predictive coding. This module avoids costly computation on highly sparse details while maintaining a lightweight prediction head. Second, the Cross-scale Feature Propagation Module leverages occupancy cues from multiple resolution levels to guide hierarchical feature propagation, enabling information sharing across scales and reducing redundant feature extraction. Additionally, we introduce an integer-only inference pipeline to enable bit-exact cross-platform consistency, which avoids the entropy-coding collapse observed in existing neural compression methods and further accelerates coding. Experiments demonstrate competitive compression performance at real-time speed. Code will be released upon acceptance. Code is available at https://github.com/pengpeng-yu/FastPCC. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Practical Lossless Neural Compression for LiDAR Point Clouds Yu, Pengpeng Li, Haoran Jiang, Runqing Li, Dingquan Wang, Jing Lin, Liang Guo, Yulan Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To address this challenge, we propose a compact representation for efficient predictive lossless coding. Our framework comprises two lightweight modules. First, the Geometry Re-Densification Module iteratively densifies encoded sparse geometry, extracts features at a dense scale, and then sparsifies the features for predictive coding. This module avoids costly computation on highly sparse details while maintaining a lightweight prediction head. Second, the Cross-scale Feature Propagation Module leverages occupancy cues from multiple resolution levels to guide hierarchical feature propagation, enabling information sharing across scales and reducing redundant feature extraction. Additionally, we introduce an integer-only inference pipeline to enable bit-exact cross-platform consistency, which avoids the entropy-coding collapse observed in existing neural compression methods and further accelerates coding. Experiments demonstrate competitive compression performance at real-time speed. Code will be released upon acceptance. Code is available at https://github.com/pengpeng-yu/FastPCC. |
| title | Towards Practical Lossless Neural Compression for LiDAR Point Clouds |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25260 |