Voxel-based representation of 3D point clouds: Methods, applications, and its potential use in the construction industry

Y Xu, X Tong, U Stilla - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
Point clouds acquired through laser scanning and stereo vision techniques have been
applied in a wide range of applications, proving to be optimal sources for map** 3D urban …

Automotive LiDAR technology: A survey

R Roriz, J Cabral, T Gomes - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, and more than a decade after the first steps towards autonomous driving, we
keep heading to achieve fully autonomous vehicles on our roads, with LiDAR sensors being …

Emerging MPEG standards for point cloud compression

S Schwarz, M Preda, V Baroncini… - IEEE Journal on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the increased popularity of augmented and virtual reality experiences, the interest in
capturing the real world in multiple dimensions and in presenting it to users in an immersible …

OctoMap: An efficient probabilistic 3D map** framework based on octrees

A Hornung, KM Wurm, M Bennewitz, C Stachniss… - Autonomous …, 2013 - Springer
Three-dimensional models provide a volumetric representation of space which is important
for a variety of robotic applications including flying robots and robots that are equipped with …

Lossy point cloud geometry compression via end-to-end learning

J Wang, H Zhu, H Liu, Z Ma - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel end-to-end Learned Point Cloud Geometry Compression (aka,
Learned-PCGC) system, leveraging stacked Deep Neural Networks (DNN) based …

Design, implementation, and evaluation of a point cloud codec for tele-immersive video

R Mekuria, K Blom, P Cesar - … on Circuits and Systems for Video …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a generic and real-time time-varying point cloud codec for 3D immersive video.
This codec is suitable for mixed reality applications in which 3D point clouds are acquired at …

Octattention: Octree-based large-scale contexts model for point cloud compression

C Fu, G Li, R Song, W Gao, S Liu - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
In point cloud compression, sufficient contexts are significant for modeling the point cloud
distribution. However, the contexts gathered by the previous voxel-based methods decrease …

Octsqueeze: Octree-structured entropy model for lidar compression

L Huang, S Wang, K Wong, J Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel deep compression algorithm to reduce the memory footprint of LiDAR
point clouds. Our method exploits the sparsity and structural redundancy between points to …

Compression of 3D point clouds using a region-adaptive hierarchical transform

RL De Queiroz, PA Chou - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In free-viewpoint video, there is a recent trend to represent scene objects as solids rather
than using multiple depth maps. Point clouds have been used in computer graphics for a …

3D point cloud compression: A survey

C Cao, M Preda, T Zaharia - … of the 24th International Conference on 3D …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, 3D point clouds have enjoyed a great popularity for representing both static
and dynamic 3D objects. When compared to 3D meshes, they offer the advantage of …