Sehoon Yea authored Sep 25, 2019 and David Flynn committed Nov 21, 2019

This adoption permits prediction of residuals between components of
the same attribute, coding the residual resulting from this second
prediction.

ChenJiafeng authored Oct 18, 2019 and David Flynn committed Nov 21, 2019

This adoption implements a different context selection method for the
isOne syntax element in attribute coding.

This converts an unrolled loop (with special case for the initial
iteration) to the rolled up form in order to improve readability.

This commit refactors calling the LoD generation routines to pass
the aps rather than a long list of syntax variables.

Satoru KUMA authored May 31, 2019 and David Flynn committed Nov 21, 2019

This provides a means to achieve spatial scalability for a G-PCC
bitstream.  For bitstreams encoded with aps_scalable_enabled_flag set,
the decoder may partially decode the geometry octree
(minGeomNodeSizeLog2) and the corresponding point attributes.  The
functionality is achieved by constraining the LoD generation process to
align with partial geometry decoding.

David Flynn authored Feb 13, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

Rather than code bypass bins using a simplified mode of the
arithmetic coder, this commit adds the ability to signal bypass bins
in a separate byte-reversed sub-stream.

Noritaka Iguchi authored Jul 02, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

This commit allow individual QP offsets to be specified for each
LoD/RAHT layer in attribute coding.

In order to simplify the introduction of quantisation using the
multiplicative inverse, the existing quantiser state is refactored
into a Quantizer class that represents the current step size.

The quantization functions are applied to both fixed-point and unitary
precision data using the same QP.  This commit moves the implicit
conversion adjustment out of the quantiser and into the calling code.

For each 2×2×2 block, a predicted block is produced by upconverting the
previous transform level.  The prediction is transformed and subtracted
from the transformed attributes at the encoder.

David Flynn authored Feb 22, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

In order to support transform domain prediction of AC coefficients using
upsampled previously reconstructed transform levels, this commit
replaces the existing RAHT implementation with a descent based RAHT tree
traversal for both encoder and decoder with the transform performed in
units of 2×2×2 blocks.

Toshiyasu Sugio authored May 17, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

This adoption permits removal of an arithmetic coding dependency in the
predicting lod scheme when lifting_adaptive_prediction_threshold is
equal to 0.

Toshiyasu Sugio authored Jul 09, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

This functionality is now handled by the unified generation process.

A 64 bit integer can represent a three dimensional 21 bit position with
one spare bit.  In order te allow the computation of abs(a-b), a signed
representation should be used, making use of the full 64 bits.

Toshiyasu Sugio authored Mar 01, 2019 and David Flynn committed Apr 16, 2019

This commit introduces prediction by previously coded points within
the same level of detail using the predicting attribute coder.
The feature is controlled using --intraLodPredictionEnabled=0|1.

This method has been replaced by an LoD decimation method.

Valery Valentin authored Mar 05, 2019 and David Flynn committed Apr 16, 2019

This LoD generation (subsampling) method uses the Morton-based ordering
of points that is used to determine prediction neighbours.  Each LoD
level comprises 3/4 of the points of the previous.

Toshiyasu Sugio authored Mar 01, 2019 and David Flynn committed Apr 16, 2019

This commit introduces zero run length coding for attribute residual
value along with an eq1 flag which indicates if residual value is equal
to 1 based on the current residual coding specification. In zero run
length coding, the number of zeros prior to each residual value is
counted as zerorun, and then zerorun is encoded instead of encoding
sequence of 0s

This commit permits signalling a per-slice delta QP for luma and
chroma attribute components.  The delta is relative to the base
value derived from the APS.

NB: while syntax support and derivation processes are provided,
this commit does not contain any method to control the delta
QP value at the encoder.

Noritaka Iguchi authored Mar 27, 2019 and David Flynn committed Apr 16, 2019

This commit introduces control of the quantisation step size using
the familiar HEVC | AVC quantisation parameter.

This is part of a series attempting to remove unhelpful typedefs.

The old typedefs (PCCVector3D, PCCPoint3D, PCCColor3B) are retained for
compatibility, but marked as deprecated.

This is part of a series that implements a single method of Cartesian to
Morton code conversion.

Vladyslav Zakharchenko authored Dec 14, 2018 and David Flynn committed Feb 06, 2019

This uses a binary-tree to generate the levels-of-details for the
lifting/predicting transforms as an alternative to Euclidean distance
thresholding methods.

Jungsun Kim authored Jan 30, 2019 and David Flynn committed Feb 05, 2019

This simplified attribute prediction scheme avoids computing the
LoD structure in order to reduce the computational complexity of
both the encoder and the decoder.  It is activated by setting
levelOfDetailCount=0.

NB: this is only configured for lossless/near-lossless predictive
attribute coding of cat3 sequences.

Danillo Bracco Graziosi authored Dec 12, 2018 and David Flynn committed Feb 05, 2019

This replaces the previous floating point transform implementation with
a fixed-point alternative with essentially identical compression
performance.

Khaled Mammou authored Sep 22, 2018 and David Flynn committed Nov 01, 2018

Replace the k-d tree based nearest neighbour search with an approximate
search based upon the points in Morton order.

Toshiyasu Sugio authored Sep 20, 2018 and David Flynn committed Nov 01, 2018

This commit provides an ability to vary the number of direct neighbours
used in the predicting transform.  Mode 0 corresponds to the existing
averaging, and mode n selects the n-th nearest neighbour for direct
prediction.

The provided code has been reworked to:
 - rewrite unary coding to be a little more obvious
 - tidy the mode decision path
 - add configuration for max_num_direct_predictors (renamed from
   MaxNumPredCand)
 - now counts the number of single predictors, rather than prediction
   modes.

This commit adds an arithmetic codec interface class that allows a
compile time choice of arithmetic codec implementation.  Context types
are renamed to support compile time selection, and existing support
functions that were added to the third-party arithmetic codec are
moved to the wrapper.

Khaled Mammou authored Sep 18, 2018 and David Flynn committed Nov 01, 2018

This commit replaces the m-ary coding of transform coefficient values
with a binary coding using the dual-lut coder.

Reworked to include a bug fix where the maximum attribute symbol value
used by the dual lut coder is 64 rather than 255

This commit moves various constants from PCCTMC3Common.h to a new
constants.h.  Hard coded values of constants have been replaced with
their symbolic name.

Khaled Mammou authored Aug 22, 2018 and David Flynn committed Aug 29, 2018

This commit removes the ability to vary quant_step_size on a per-LoD
basis.  This greatly simplifies the codec configuration, especially
when used in conjunction with dist2 derivation.

cfg update:
 - rename quantizationSteps* -> quantizationStep*
 - update quantizationStep* to single values:
   - lossless-geom lossy-attrs:        8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 [8bit]
   - lossless-geom nearlossless-attrs: no change
   - lossless-geom lossless-attrs:     no change
   - lossy-geom    lossy-attrs:        8                       [8bit]

 => 16-bit cat3 sequences are have 8-bit qs values multipled by 255

This commit maintains consistency with other static AttributeEncoder
and AttributeDecoder methods.

Khaled Mammou authored Aug 23, 2018 and David Flynn committed Aug 29, 2018

This commit removes PCCBuildLevelOfDetail2()

Khaled Mammou authored Aug 22, 2018 and David Flynn committed Aug 29, 2018

This commit replaces the hard coded threshold values with APS signalling.
The default configuration maintains the hard-coded threshold values based
on bitdepth.

This is an editorial change to improve naming clarity: attr_count
represents the number of elements (dimensionality) in an attribute
set rather than the total number of attributes.

Khaled Mammou authored Aug 23, 2018 and David Flynn committed Aug 29, 2018

This commit fixes a premature determination of the point count, resulting
in no predictor weights being calculated.