Khaled Mammou authored Sep 19, 2018 and David Flynn committed Nov 01, 2018

This commit provides an m-ary entropy coder based on a fixed-size
dictionary with periodic updates, a cache of recently used symbols
(updated using an LRU eviction policy), and a fallback direct binary
coding of any unhandled symbols.

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.

Philip A. Chou authored Jul 19, 2018 and David Flynn committed Nov 01, 2018

This commit integrates a c++ trisoup codec, replacing the previous matlab
implementation.

The provided code has been reworked to avoid duplicating code, dead code,
and operate with the current HLS.

This commit splits the handling of the geometry brick header and octree
geometry coding.  The encoder/decoder classes now take care of coding
the header, while the geometry coder handles the geometry coding itself.

This commit moves method definitions out of a header file
into a separate compilation unit.

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.

This commit moves method definitions out of a header file
into a separate compilation unit.

The geometry coder is quite large, especially with trisoup and has no
benefit to being a header only implementation.  This commit moves the
geometry octree coder out of the header files and into
geometry_octree_{en,de}coder.cpp.

This commit rewrites the codec high-level syntax:

 - the bitstream is divided into "bricks" (akin to an AVC/HEVC
   slice/tile).

 - sequence, geometry and attribute parameter sets describe the coding
   parameters in use generally and for a specific brick.

 - marshalling the bitstream payloads to a file format is achieved using
   a type-length-value encoding scheme.

Additionally, the triSoup bitstream scale and translation values have
been unified with (replaced by) the octree counterparts.  For
compatibility, existing command line parameters continue to function
as before.

NB: this commit does not incorporate flexibility in the decoding order.
The decoder requires the bitstream to be presented in a fixed order.

This commit removes the bundled Intel Threading Building Blocks library
from the repository.

Philip A. Chou authored Mar 29, 2018 and David Flynn committed Jun 05, 2018

This commit does not add the triangle soup geometry compressor to TMC3,
rather.  Rather, it adds a means to call out to TMC1 binaries to perform
the compression, integrate the results into the bitstream.

Attribute compression is performed natively by the TMC13 codec.

Philip A. Chou authored Mar 25, 2018 and David Flynn committed Jun 05, 2018

This commit ports the Region Adaptive Hierarchical Transform for
attribute coding with colour and reflectance variants.

In order to support multiple different attribute compression schemes,
this commit moves the existing attribute compression code into a
self-contained class.

In order to support multiple different attribute compression schemes,
this commit moves the existing attribute compression code into a
self-contained class.

In order to avoid obscure broken builds when switching branches
or otherwise adding/removing files, this commit removes the use
of wild cards for source files in the tmc3 directory.

To add files to or remove from the build, the tmc3/CMakeLists.txt
must be modified, thereby permitting the build system to detect
changes in the file list.

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This commit changes the application's reporting of elapsed time to
measure user time rather than wall time in order to reduce sources
of noise in evaluating runtime.

For output is now of the form:

  ```
  Processing time (wall): 123.456 s
  Processing time (user): 123.456 s
  ```



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This commit replaces the previous command-line argument parsing with
program-options-lite, which additionally serves as a simple config-file
parser.

A table based configuration of options provides in a single place
option naming, help text, and default values.

Side effects of this change are to:

 - adds further error checking for unknown arguments (warning only), parse
   failures, required options.

 - replace the default constructor of Parameters,
   PCCAttributeEncodeParamaters, and PCCAttributeEncodeParamaters
   with defaults in args handler

 - updates the type of Parameters::mode & ...::colorTransform to be more
   more descriptive.



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