Wei Zhang authored Jul 10, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

This avoids artefacts during trisoup generation by checking whether the
original slice partition interval is an integer multiple of the block
size W=2^(trisoup_node_size_log2). If not, the partition interval is
rounded up to the nearest integer that is exactly divisible by the block
size.

Yiting Shao authored Jun 14, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

This commit adds a process to limit the number of points per slice to be
within a hard upper limit and soft lower limit.

Yiting Shao authored Jun 14, 2019 and David Flynn committed Aug 12, 2019

Adjust the operation sequence of slice partition and geometry quantization. We
do geometry quantization first and then do the slice partition, so that the
point number of each slice would be kept in the predefined range under
lossless/lossy geometry coding conditions.

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

Yiting Shao authored Dec 07, 2018 and David Flynn committed Feb 06, 2019

This partitioning method (--partitionMethod=3) decomposes the input
pointcloud into an octree of depth --partitionOctreeDepth=d, with
each leaf node corresponding to a slice.

Yiting Shao authored Dec 07, 2018 and David Flynn committed Feb 06, 2019

This partitioning method (--partitionMethod=2) finds the longest edge of
the point cloud and divides it into --partitionNumUniformGeom=n slices
along the longest edge.

If n = 0, the ratio of longest edge to shortest edge determines
the number of slices.

This commit provides a basic frame work for partitioning a frame into
multiple slices, with the continued assumption of single-frame
sequences.

The decoder is modified to independently decode each slice and
accumulate decoded points in a buffer for output.

The encoder is updated to support partitioning the input point cloud
into slices and to independently code each slice.  Points from
reconstructed slices are accumulated and output at the end of the
frame period.

The partitioning process (partitioning methods are defined in
partitioning.cpp) proceeds as follows:

 - quantise the input point cloud without duplicate point removal
   or reordering points.

 - apply the partitioning function to produce a list of tiles
   and slices, each slice having an origin, id, and list of point
   indexes that identify points in the input point cloud.

 - producing a source point cloud for each partition as a subset
   of the input point cloud.

 - compressing each partition (slice) as normal by quantising
   the partitioned input.  Recolouring is necessarily performed
   against the partitioned input since the recolouring method
   cannot correctly handle recolouring a partition from a complete
   point cloud.

NB: this commit does not provide any partitioning methods.

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.

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 removes unnecessary include directives.

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 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.

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.

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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