This commit aims to reduce the overload on the --mode option and to
restore it to the previous encode/decode functionality.  To this end,
a new option (--geometryCodec=...) is added that selects the geometry
codec.

Version v1.0 use of --mode=... is supported.

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.

Rather than coding all syntax elements for both transform types
irrespective of the in-use type, this commit codes only those that
are necessary for a given transform type.

Philip A. Chou authored Apr 03, 2018 and David Flynn committed Jun 05, 2018

This commit introduces the rahtLeafDecimationDepth parameter to allow
chroma sub-sampling by decimating the coefficients in the bottom n
levels of the tree.

The default value of 3 provides chroma sub-sampling by a factor of 2
in each dimension.

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.

Khaled Mammou authored Mar 25, 2018 and David Flynn committed May 17, 2018

This commit reduces the number of nearest neighbours used in attribute
prediction to 4 from 8 in order to reduce memory usage.

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Khaled Mammou authored Mar 25, 2018 and David Flynn committed May 17, 2018

This commit removes the ability to control the quantization dead-zone
parameters since they have always been identical to the step size.

Rather than hard-coding the dead-zone size parameter to be the same as
the step size, this commit:

 - Sets the dead-zone to be ±(2 * stepsize / 3) rather than ±stepsize

 - Does not narrow the interval following the dead-zone.

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Ohji Nakagami authored Apr 13, 2018 and David Flynn committed May 11, 2018

This commit eliminates the blending of point attribute values during
the attribute transfer process used in geometry quantisation by forcing
the blending weight to be 0|1 (m42141).

m42538 also recommends to disable the bounded search of the closest
attribute from the contributing set by setting searchRange=0.  This is
reflected by a change to the software defaults and configuration.

This commit provides an implementation of m42239, permitting early
coding termination of sub-trees that contain few points:

 - the so-called IDCM feature uses an eligibility criteria prior
   to permitting an encoder mode decision.

 - the feature may be controlled via the command line / config file
   using the --inferredDirectCodingMode=1|0 option

This commit provides an implementation of m42238 to code occupancy:

 - a node's child occupancy is contextualised based on the adjacent
   neighbours of the parent node.

 - when an isolated node is occupied by only a single child, the
   sub-node address [0,7] is directly coded instead of the 8-bit
   occupancy word.

 - collection of neighbour occupancy is performed using a scatter/
   gather operation upon the insertion of each child node into the
   fifo queue.

 - the feature may be controlled via the command line / config file
   using the --neighbourContextualisation=1|0 option

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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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