Hierarchical Frequency-Domain Compression of Implicit Geometric Representations for Large-Scale Point Clouds
Abstract
Large-scale point cloud representations of complex geome tries incur prohibitive computational and memory costs, necessitating compressed implicit representations. To ad dress this, we propose a unified framework comprising im plicit geometric field representation, hierarchical frequency domain compression, and conditional high-frequency predic tion. Specifically, an unordered point cloud is mapped to an implicit field defined within its physical bounding box. A smooth Fourier pyramid is then constructed, where com pact low-frequency components capture the global geometry. Inter-scale high-frequency residuals are encoded to preserve the spatial information required for reconstructing fine geo metric details. To restore the high-frequency information lost during compression, we develop a hierarchical 3D neural net work. The reconstructed implicit field is converted back into a point cloud through isosurface extraction. Experiments on a complex-boundary point cloud with more than eight mil lion points demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a higher compression ratio than existing point cloud compres sion methods while maintaining comparable reconstruction quality.
Figures & tables
| Method | BPP | CD- ( ) | F-score | D1-PSNR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OctAttention | 0.0303 | 3.9979 | 0.7048 | 61.1256 |
| G-PCC | 0.0874 | 3.9979 | 0.7048 | 61.1256 |
| SparsePCGC | 0.0143 | 4.1248 | 0.6776 | 60.8562 |
| LINR-PCGC | 0.0611 | 3.9979 | 0.7048 | 61.1256 |
| FastPCC | 0.0186 | 4.0686 | 0.6895 | 60.9546 |
| NeRC 3 | 0.0265 | 4.0627 | 0.6934 | 61.0464 |
| Setting | BPP | CD- ( ) | D1-PSNR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low-frequency only | 0.0028 | 38.2999 | 38.2361 |
| LF+HF Encoding | 0.0078 | 41.0933 | 38.3369 |
| Center-block decoder | 0.0078 | 8.5872 | 50.5939 |
| Full model | 0.0078 | 3.7296 | 60.6035 |
Point Cloud Compression
Point cloud compression reduces the storage and transmission cost of 3D points while preserving geometry, appearance, and task-relevant detail.
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