Loading [a11y]/accessibility-menu.js
Integer Alternative for the Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore

Integer Alternative for the Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform


Abstract:

A recently-introduced coder based on region-adaptive hierarchical transform (RAHT) is being considered as a standard for the compression of point cloud attributes at movi...Show More

Abstract:

A recently-introduced coder based on region-adaptive hierarchical transform (RAHT) is being considered as a standard for the compression of point cloud attributes at moving picture experts group. The RAHT coefficients can be encoded in many ways and the transform is based on a series of orthogonal 2 × 2 transform matrices with geometry-dependent floating-point entries. In order to remove computation ambiguity and facilitate deployment, fixed-point operations are often preferred. In this letter, we present an alternative RAHT description that allows for fixed-point implementation of its transform steps. It is based on matrix decompositions akin to lifting steps and a scaling of the quantization steps. Results are presented to show that the new fixed-point transform is, in practical terms, equivalent to the floating-point RAHT. For that we use a reasonable number of precision bits for the integer operations, e.g. 8 b or more.
Published in: IEEE Signal Processing Letters ( Volume: 26, Issue: 9, September 2019)
Page(s): 1369 - 1372
Date of Publication: 26 July 2019

ISSN Information:

Funding Agency:


Contact IEEE to Subscribe

References

References is not available for this document.