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Generative face video coding (GFVC) is vital for modern applications like video conferencing, yet existing methods primarily focus on video motion while neglecting the significant bitrate contribution of audio. Despite the well-established…
This document describes a deep learning-based point cloud geometry codec and a deep learning-based point cloud joint geometry and colour codec, submitted to the Call for Proposals on JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding issued in January 2022. The…
Recent advances in learned image codecs have been extended from human perception toward machine perception. However, progressive image compression with fine granular scalability (FGS)-which enables decoding a single bitstream at multiple…
Perceptual video compression leverages generative priors to reconstruct realistic textures and motions at low bitrates. However, existing perceptual codecs often lack native support for variable bitrate and progressive delivery, and their…
For a long time, the point cloud completion task has been regarded as a pure generation task. After obtaining the global shape code through the encoder, a complete point cloud is generated using the shape priorly learnt by the networks.…
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Recently, deep learning methods have shown promising results in point cloud compression. For octree-based point cloud compression, previous works show that the information of ancestor nodes and sibling nodes are equally important for…
Due to limitations in acquisition equipment, noise perturbations often corrupt 3-D point clouds, hindering down-stream tasks such as surface reconstruction, rendering, and further processing. Existing 3-D point cloud denoising methods…
Efficient 3D LiDAR point cloud compression (LPCC) and streaming are critical for edge server-assisted robotic systems, enabling real-time communication with compact data representations. A widely adopted approach represents LiDAR point…
Rate-control plays an important role in video coding. However, in the conventional rate-control algorithms, the number and position of Macroblocks (MBs) inside one basic unit for rate-control is inflexible and predetermined. The different…
Although recent generative image compression methods have demonstrated impressive potential in optimizing the rate-distortion-perception trade-off, they still face the critical challenge of flexible rate adaption to diverse compression…
We propose a mixed-resolution point-cloud representation and an example-based super-resolution framework, from which several processing tools can be derived, such as compression, denoising and error concealment. By inferring the…
We propose sandwiched video compression -- a video compression system that wraps neural networks around a standard video codec. The sandwich framework consists of a neural pre- and post-processor with a standard video codec between them.…
Point cloud completion is a vital task focused on reconstructing complete point clouds and addressing the incompleteness caused by occlusion and limited sensor resolution. Traditional methods relying on fixed local region partitioning, such…
Given the popularity of 360{\deg} images on social media platforms, 360{\deg} image compression becomes a critical technology for media storage and transmission. Conventional 360{\deg} image compression pipeline projects the spherical image…
This study proposes a practical approach for compressing 360-degree equirectangular videos using pretrained neural video compression (NVC) models. Without requiring additional training or changes in the model architectures, the proposed…
While point cloud-based applications are gaining traction due to their ability to provide rich and immersive experiences, they critically need efficient coding solutions due to the large volume of data involved, often many millions of…
Compressing a set of unordered points is far more challenging than compressing images/videos of regular sample grids, because of the difficulties in characterizing neighboring relations in an irregular layout of points. Many researchers…
This paper presents SurfelSoup, an end-to-end learned surface-based framework for point cloud geometry compression, with surface-structured primitives for representation. It proposes a probabilistic surface representation, pSurfel, which…
Learning based video compression attracts increasing attention in the past few years. The previous hybrid coding approaches rely on pixel space operations to reduce spatial and temporal redundancy, which may suffer from inaccurate motion…