通过重稠密化与跨尺度传播,实现激光点云的实时高效压缩。
Re-Densification Meets Cross-Scale Propagation: Real-Time Neural Compression of LiDAR Point Clouds
- 先重稠密化再重稀疏化,提升几何特征表达能力。
- 跨尺度传播利用多分辨率占用信息,减少冗余计算。
- 在KITTI上达26帧/秒,12位量化下性能领先。
激光雷达点云在诸多应用中至关重要,但高精度扫描带来巨大的存储与传输开销。现有方法通常将无序点转换为分层八叉树或体素结构进行稠密到稀疏的预测编码。然而,几何细节的极端稀疏性阻碍了有效上下文建模,限制了压缩性能与速度。为此,我们提出生成紧凑特征以实现高效预测编码。框架包含两个轻量模块:首先,几何重稠密化模块对编码后的稀疏几何进行重稠密化,提取更密集尺度的特征,再重新稀疏化用于预测编码,避免在高度稀疏细节上的高成本计算,同时保持轻量级预测头。其次,跨尺度特征传播模块利用多分辨率层级的占据信号引导层次化特征传播,促进跨尺度信息共享,减少冗余特征提取,并为几何重稠密化模块提供更丰富的特征。通过整合这两个模块,我们的方法生成紧凑特征表示,实现高效上下文建模并加速编码过程。在KITTI数据集上的实验表明,该方法达到业界领先的压缩比和实时性能,在12位量化下实现编码/解码26 FPS。代码已公开于https://github.com/pengpeng-yu/FastPCC。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet high-precision scans incur substantial storage and transmission overhead. Existing methods typically convert unordered points into hierarchical octree or voxel structures for dense-to-sparse predictive coding. However, the extreme sparsity of geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting their compression performance and speed. To address this challenge, we propose to generate compact features for efficient predictive coding. Our framework comprises two lightweight modules. First, the Geometry Re-Densification Module re-densifies encoded sparse geometry, extracts features at denser scale, and then re-sparsifies the features for predictive coding. This module avoids costly computation on highly sparse details while maintaining a lightweight prediction head. Second, the Cross-scale Feature Propagation Module leverages occupancy cues from multiple resolution levels to guide hierarchical feature propagation. This design facilitates information sharing across scales, thereby reducing redundant feature extraction and providing enriched features for the Geometry Re-Densification Module. By integrating these two modules, our method yields a compact feature representation that provides efficient context modeling and accelerates the coding process. Experiments on the KITTI dataset demonstrate state-of-the-art compression ratios and real-time performance, achieving 26 FPS for encoding/decoding at 12-bit quantization. Code is available at https://github.com/pengpeng-yu/FastPCC.
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