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.

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.

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.

This commit provides trisoup_node_size_log2 as a replacement for
the following HLS syntax variables:
 - geom_codec_type (redundant wrt. triangle node size derivation)
 - trisoup_depth (redundant wrt. bounding box)
 - trisoup_triangle_level (semantics simplified)

The following config options have been removed:
 - geometryCodec (redundant wrt. trisoup_node_size_log2)
 - triSoupLevel  (replaced by trisoup_node_size_log2)
 - triSoupDepth  (unnecessary)
 - triSoupIntToOrigScale (redundant wrt. positionQuantizationScale)

This commit provides a method to predict the child occupancy bits of a
node based on the node's 26 neighbours.  The prediction is used to
contextualise coding of each occupancy bit.

This tool requires the use of the occupancyAtlas for neighbour lookup.
NB: a restriction in the current implementation requires that the
atlas size is at most 8³.

intra_pred_max_node_size_log2: 6

Bitwise geometry occupancy coding uses a mapping table to select entropy
contexts.  This commit employs a dynamic mapping which is updated after
each coding operation, replacing the previous static mapping tables.

NB: the proposed version used a context with a halving period
(max_count) of 64 symbols.  However, this conflicts with another
adoption (512 symbols), and a wholesale replacement of the arithmetic
codec and context model.  To resolve the conflict, the existing halving
period (128) is used.

This commit adds configuration data for new cat1 and cat3 sequences:

cat1, voxelised frames:
  boxer_viewdep_vox12
  longdress_viewdep_vox12
  loot_viewdep_vox12
  redandblack_viewdep_vox12
  soldier_viewdep_vox12
  thaidancer_viewdep_vox12

cat3, LiDaR sqeuences:
  qnxadas-junction-approach: 74 frames
  qnxadas-junction-exit:     74 frames
  qnxadas-motorway-join:     500 frames
  qnxadas-navigating-bends:  300 frames

Khaled Mammou authored Aug 27, 2018 and David Flynn committed Sep 03, 2018

Certain test sequences with 16-bit reflectance are actually 8-bit data that
has been scaled by 255.  This commit adds non-normative support to the
encoder and decoder to convert between the two representations through
the option "hack.reflectanceScale".

This configuration unifies the old configuration files and provides
greater test coverage.  Notable changes are:

 - configuration sets for octree vs trisoup, and pred/lift vs raht.

 - cat1 test sequences added to all test configurations

 - attribute quantization step sizes are aligned between all coding
   schemes.

 - levelOfDetailCount is unified where possible (cat3 = 10, mostly)

 - config dependent dist2 variation for a given sequence is removed