LPCM通过球坐标系建模点云几何相关性,提升激光雷达压缩效率。
LPCM: Learning-based Predictive Coding for LiDAR Point Cloud Compression
- 用球坐标系构建预测树,分高低比特率模式分别处理角度与半径
- 在高比特率下用LSTM捕捉长期几何相关性,低比特率下直接压缩半径
- 提出基于差分进化算法的量化参数选择,无需增加编码时间
由于激光雷达点云数据量巨大,高效压缩对降低存储和传输成本至关重要。现有学习方法未利用激光雷达固有的角分辨率,且忽略不同比特率下几何信息相关性的显著差异。基于几何的点云压缩标准(G-PCC)中的预测几何编码利用角分辨率预测方位角,但仅建模了邻近点方位角间的简单线性关系,且未优化球坐标系中各坐标轴残差的量化参数。本文提出一种基于学习的预测编码方法(LPCM),支持高、低比特率编码模式。LPCM使用球坐标系将点云转换为预测树:在高比特率模式下,采用轻量级长短期记忆预测模块(LSTM-P)捕捉不同坐标间的长期几何相关性,高效预测并压缩仰角;在低比特率模式下,引入变分半径压缩(VRC)模块直接压缩点云半径。同时分析球坐标与笛卡尔坐标量化差异,提出基于差分进化(DE)的量化参数选择方法,在不增加编码时间的前提下提升率失真性能。在语义KITTI和MPEG指定的Ford数据集上的实验结果表明,LPCM优于G-PCC及其他学习方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Since the data volume of LiDAR point clouds is very huge, efficient compression is necessary to reduce their storage and transmission costs. However, existing learning-based compression methods do not exploit the inherent angular resolution of LiDAR and ignore the significant differences in the correlation of geometry information at different bitrates. The predictive geometry coding method in the geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) standard uses the inherent angular resolution to predict the azimuth angles. However, it only models a simple linear relationship between the azimuth angles of neighboring points. Moreover, it does not optimize the quantization parameters for residuals on each coordinate axis in the spherical coordinate system. We propose a learning-based predictive coding method (LPCM) with both high-bitrate and low-bitrate coding modes. LPCM converts point clouds into predictive trees using the spherical coordinate system. In high-bitrate coding mode, we use a lightweight Long-Short-Term Memory-based predictive (LSTM-P) module that captures long-term geometry correlations between different coordinates to efficiently predict and compress the elevation angles. In low-bitrate coding mode, where geometry correlation degrades, we introduce a variational radius compression (VRC) module to directly compress the point radii. Then, we analyze why the quantization of spherical coordinates differs from that of Cartesian coordinates and propose a differential evolution (DE)-based quantization parameter selection method, which improves rate-distortion performance without increasing coding time. Experimental results on the LiDAR benchmark \textit{SemanticKITTI} and the MPEG-specified \textit{Ford} datasets show that LPCM outperforms G-PCC and other learning-based methods.
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