This adoption permits encoding the geometry positions in an order other
than {x,y,z}.  The --geometry_axis_order option causes the encoder to
load data from the ply file in a different order.  The order is
signalled in the SPS and the decoder will label the output axis as
appropriate.

David Flynn authored Jun 21, 2018 and David Flynn committed Nov 21, 2019

This commit enables the codec to encapsulate more than one frame in the
coded bitstream.  The number of frames to encode is controlled by the
frameCount option.

Support is added to encode multiple source frames from separate ply
files based on a template input file name.  A printf-like "%d" directive
acts as a placeholder for the current frame number.

Decoding functions in a similar way with a each frame decoded from the
bitstream being written to a separate ply file named according to a
template pattern.

The first frame number used for file I/O may be set using the
firstFrameNum option.

This adds:
 - a frame_idx syntax element to every geometry slice header.
 - (decoder) handling of a frame boundary data unit.

Frame boundaries are represented by changes in the value of frame_idx
or by the presence of a frame boundary data unit.

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 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 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)

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