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Poster

RENO: Real-Time Neural Compression for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds

Kang You · Tong Chen · Dandan Ding · M. Salman Asif · Zhan Ma

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Sun 15 Jun 8:30 a.m. PDT — 10:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Despite the substantial advancements demonstrated by learning-based neural models in the LiDAR Point Cloud Compression (LPCC) task, realizing real-time compression—an indispensable criterion for numerous industrial applications—remains a formidable challenge. This paper proposes RENO, the first real-time neural codec for 3D LiDAR point clouds, achieving superior performance with a lightweight model. RENO skips the octree construction and directly builds upon the multiscale sparse tensor representation. Instead of the multi-stage inferring, RENO devises sparse occupancy codes, which exploit cross-scale correlation and derive voxels' occupancy in a one-shot manner, greatly saving processing time. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed RENO achieves real-time coding speed, 10 fps at 14-bit depth on a desktop platform (e.g., one RTX 3090 GPU) for both encoding and decoding processes, while providing 12.25\% and 48.34\% bit-rate savings compared to G-PCCv23 and Draco, respectively, at a similar quality. RENO model size is merely 1MB, making it attractive for practical applications. The source code will be made publicly available.

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