Advanced Patch-Based Affine Motion Estimation for Dynamic Point Cloud Geometry Compression

Yiting Shao

doi:10.3390/s24103142

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Advanced Patch-Based Affine Motion Estimation for Dynamic Point Cloud Geometry Compression

2024-05-15

DOI：10.3390/s24103142

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The substantial data volume within dynamic point clouds representing three-dimensional moving entities necessitates advancements in compression techniques. Motion estimation (ME) is crucial for reducing point cloud temporal redundancy. Standard block-based ME schemes, which typically utilize the previously decoded point clouds as inter-reference frames, often yield inaccurate and translation-only estimates for dynamic point clouds. To overcome this limitation, we propose an advanced patch-based affine ME scheme for dynamic point cloud geometry compression. Our approach employs a forward-backward jointing ME strategy, generating affine motion-compensated frames for improved inter-geometry references. Before the forward ME process, point cloud motion analysis is conducted on previous frames to perceive motion characteristics. Then, a point cloud is segmented into deformable patches based on geometry correlation and motion coherence. During the forward ME process, affine motion models are introduced to depict the deformable patch motions from the reference to the current frame. Later, affine motion-compensated frames are exploited in the backward ME process to obtain refined motions for better coding performance. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme, achieving an average 6.28% geometry bitrate gain over the inter codec anchor. Additional results also validate the effectiveness of key modules within the proposed ME scheme.

Keywords:

dynamic point cloud geometry compression

affine motion estimation

patch generation

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