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.

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 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 provides support for each slice to have an origin
specified relative to the sequence bounding box.

Reconstructed points are offset by the slice origin prior to inverse
scaling and translation.

 - calculates the sequence bounding box at the start of encoding
   (in original coordinates as a decoder may reconstruct it)
 - signals bounding box in SPS
 - disables signalling of geometry box origin (always 0)

The configuration parameters seq_bounding_box_xyz0 and
seq_bounding_box_whd allow overriding the automatic derivation of
frame (sequence) bounding box, forcing the depth of the geometry
tree.

NB: seq_bounding_box_xyz0 and seq_bounding_box_whd are specified
    using unscaled co-ordinates.

NB: this patch does not signal these parameters in the SPS.

 - signal geom_slice_id / attr_geom_slice_id in geometry / attribute
   header.

 - attr_geom_slice_id set to current geom_slice_id to maintain
   relationship between attribute and geometry.

 - increment geom_slice_id after each round of encoding.

 - decoder checks that the attribute payload's attr_geom_slice_id
   corresponds to the most recently decoded geometry payload.

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 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 prepares for the possibility that geometry coding itself is
lossy.  Instead of performing recolouring just after input quantisation,
it is deferred until after geometry processing.

The recolouring functions are updated to handle differences in
pointcloud scales rather than requiring the target pointcloud to be
scaled identically to the source.

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