High Efficiency Wiener Filter-based Point Cloud Quality Enhancement for MPEG G-PCC

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17467v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:24:58 GMT
• Title: High Efficiency Wiener Filter-based Point Cloud Quality Enhancement for MPEG G-PCC
• Authors: Yuxuan Wei, Zehan Wang, Tian Guo, Hao Liu, Liquan Shen, Hui Yuan,
• Abstract summary: Point clouds directly record the geometry and attributes of scenes or objects by a large number of points.<n> geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) standard for both static and dynamic point clouds.<n>We propose a high efficiency Wiener filter that can be integrated into the encoder and decoder pipeline of G-PCC.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Point clouds, which directly record the geometry and attributes of scenes or objects by a large number of points, are widely used in various applications such as virtual reality and immersive communication. However, due to the huge data volume and unstructured geometry, efficient compression of point clouds is very crucial. The Moving Picture Expert Group is establishing a geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) standard for both static and dynamic point clouds in recent years. Although lossy compression of G-PCC can achieve a very high compression ratio, the reconstruction quality is relatively low, especially at low bitrates. To mitigate this problem, we propose a high efficiency Wiener filter that can be integrated into the encoder and decoder pipeline of G-PCC to improve the reconstruction quality as well as the rate-distortion performance for dynamic point clouds. Specifically, we first propose a basic Wiener filter, and then improve it by introducing coefficients inheritance and variance-based point classification for the Luma component. Besides, to reduce the complexity of the nearest neighbor search during the application of the Wiener filter, we also propose a Morton code-based fast nearest neighbor search algorithm for efficient calculation of filter coefficients. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve average Bj{\o}ntegaard delta rates of -6.1%, -7.3%, and -8.0% for Luma, Chroma Cb, and Chroma Cr components, respectively, under the condition of lossless-geometry-lossy-attributes configuration compared to the latest G-PCC encoding platform (i.e., geometry-based solid content test model version 7.0 release candidate 2) by consuming affordable computational complexity.

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