Global Rate-distortion Optimization of Video-based Point Cloud Compression with Differential Evolution

In video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC), one geometry video and one color video are generated from a dynamic point cloud. Then, the two videos are compressed independently using a state-of-the-art video coder. In the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) V-PCC test model, the quantization param...

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Published in:IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors: Yuan, Hui, Hamzaoui, Raouf, Neri, Ferrante, Yang, Shengxiang, Wang, Tingting
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 06.10.2021
Subjects:
Bit rate
Color
differential evolution
Geometry
Point cloud compression
Quantization (signal)
rate control
Rate-distortion
rate-distortion optimization
Transform coding
video coding
ISSN:2473-3628
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Summary:In video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC), one geometry video and one color video are generated from a dynamic point cloud. Then, the two videos are compressed independently using a state-of-the-art video coder. In the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) V-PCC test model, the quantization parameters for a given group of frames are constrained according to a fixed offset rule. For example, for the low-delay configuration, the difference between the quantization parameters of the first frame and the quantization parameters of the following frames in the same group is zero by default. We show that the rate-distortion performance of the V-PCC test model can be improved by lifting this constraint and considering the ratedistortion optimization problem as a multi-variable constrained combinatorial optimization problem where the variables are the quantization parameters of all frames. To solve the optimization problem, we use a variant of the differential evolution algorithm. Experimental results for the low-delay configuration show that our method can achieve a Bjøntegaard delta bitrate of up to -43.04% and more accurate rate control (average bitrate error to the target bitrate of 0.45% vs. 10.75%) compared to the state-of- the-art method, which optimizes the rate-distortion performance subject to the test model default offset rule. We also show that our optimization strategy can be used to improve the rate-distortion performance of two-dimensional video coders.
ISSN:2473-3628
DOI:10.1109/MMSP53017.2021.9733714