• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.3108-3120
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• 2019

Point cloud is widely used in 3D applications due to the recent advancement of 3D data acquisition technology. Polygonal mesh-based compression has been dominant since it can replace many points sharing a surface with a set of vertices with mesh structure. Recent point cloud-based applications demand more point-based interactivity, which makes point cloud compression (PCC) becomes more attractive than 3D mesh compression. Interestingly, an exploration activity has been started to explore the feasibility of PCC standard in MPEG. In this paper, a new color attribute compression method is presented for point cloud data. The proposed method utilizes the spatial redundancy among color attribute data to construct a color palette. The color palette is constructed by using K-means clustering method and each color data in point cloud is represented by the index of its similar color in palette. To further improve the compression efficiency, the spatial redundancy between the indices of neighboring colors is also removed by marking them using a flag bit. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a better improvement of RD performance compared with that of the MPEG PCC reference software.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.553-565
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• 2021

Point cloud is a set of points for representing a 3D object, and consists of geometric information, which is 3D coordinate information, and attribute information, which is information representing color, reflectance, and the like. In this way of expressing, it has a vast amount of data compared to 2D images. Therefore, a process of compressing the point cloud data in order to transmit the point cloud data or use it in various fields is required. Unlike color information corresponding to all 2D geometric information constituting a 2D image, a point cloud represents a point cloud including attribute information such as color in only a part of the 3D space. Therefore, separate processing of geometric information is also required. Based on these characteristics of point clouds, MPEG under ISO/IEC standardizes V-PCC, which imitates point cloud images and compresses them into 2D DCT-based 2D image compression codecs, as a compression method for high-density point cloud data. This has limitations in accurately representing 3D spatial information to proceed with compression by converting 3D point clouds to 2D, and difficulty in processing non-existent points when utilizing 3D DCT. Therefore, in this paper, we present 3D Discrete Cosine Transform-based Point Cloud Compression (3DCT PCC), a method to compress point cloud data, which is a 3D image by utilizing 3D DCT, and confirm the efficiency of 3D DCT compared to V-PCC based on 2D DCT.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.178-181
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• 2019

포인트 클라우드 콘텐츠는 3D 포인트 집합으로 이루어진 3D 데이터로, 일반적으로 3D 포인트 클라우드는 하나의 객체를 표현하기 위하여 수십, 수백만 개의 3차원 포인트(Point) 데이터가 필요하며, 각 포인트 데이터는 3차원 좌표계의 (x, y, z)좌표와 포인트의 색(color), 반사율(reflectance), 법선벡터(normal) 등과 같은 속성(attribute)으로 구성되어 있다. 따라서 기존 2D영상보다 한 단계 높은 차원과 다양한 속성으로 구성된 포인트 클라우드를 사용자에게 제공하기 위해서는 고효율의 인코딩/디코딩 기술 연구가 필요하며, 다양한 대역폭, 장치 및 관심 영역에 따라 차별화된 서비스를 제공하기 위한 품질 확장성 기능의 개발이 요구된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 포인트 클라우드 압축에 사용되는 V-PCC에서 3차원 미디어인 포인트 클라우드의 3D 공간 내 포인트 간의 밀도를 변경하여, 새로운 품질 변화를 달성하고 비트전송률 변경을 추가 지원하는 방법을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.692-703
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• 2021

Recently, with the development of computer graphics technology, research on technology for expressing real objects as more realistic virtual graphics is being actively conducted. Point cloud is a technology that uses numerous points, including 2D spatial coordinates and color information, to represent 3D objects, and they require huge data storage and high-performance computing devices to provide various services. Video-based Point Cloud Compression (V-PCC) technology is currently being studied by the international standard organization MPEG, which is a projection based method that projects point cloud into 2D plane, and then compresses them using 2D video codecs. V-PCC technology compresses point cloud objects using 2D images such as Occupancy map, Geometry image, Attribute image, and other auxiliary information that includes the relationship between 2D plane and 3D space. When increasing the density of point cloud or expanding an object, 3D calculation is generally used, but there are limitations in that the calculation method is complicated, requires a lot of time, and it is difficult to determine the correct location of a new point. This paper proposes a method to generate additional points at more accurate locations with less computation by applying 2D interpolation to the image on which the point cloud is projected, in the V-PCC technology.