Tencent America LLC

Digimarc Corporation

Essenlix Corporation

Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Thomson Licensing

Pitney Bowes Inc.

Jun Tian

Shan Liu

Xiaozhong Xu

Xiang Zhang

Chao Huang

Stephen Y Chou

Wei Ding

Hong Heather Yu

Wu Chou

Ji Qi

John F Stach

Mingquan Wu

Yuecheng Zhang

Yu Huang

Hongbing Li

Wen Gao

Dapeng Oliver Wu

Xing Li

Hugh L Brunk

Kenneth Lee Levy

Yufan Zhang

Stephen K Decker

Adnan M Alattar

Jeffrey Adam Bloom

Lei Yang

Weiwei Feng

Wei Dong

Neil E Lofgren

Qian Chen

Bing Han

Ye-Kui Wang

Robert A Cordery

Taoran Lu

Claude Zeller

Peter Georg Baum

Zhu Li

Donald G Mackay

Ji Li

Wenjun Zeng

Thuong Nguyen Canh

William A Brosseau

William L Kilmartin

Jingteng Xue

Dong Cao

Zhifeng Chen

A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain an input mesh corresponding to volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a curve of a mesh sequence from the input mesh corresponding to volumetric data, the curve including a plurality of vertices of the input mesh of the mesh sequence, subdivide the derived curve of the mesh sequence by adding subdivided vertices, computing a displacement vector for each of the plurality of subdivided vertices; and entropy code the volumetric data based on the displacement vector from at least one of the subdivided vertices.

Mesh vertex displacements coding

Method, apparatus, and system for texture coordinate prediction for mesh compression are provided. The process may include receiving, for a mesh, a coordinate of a first vertex and a coordinate of a prediction candidate vertex in a three dimensional (3D) space. The process may include determining a stretch perpendicular distance associated with the first vertex and the prediction candidate vertex, the stretch perpendicular distance being based on a conversion of the 3D space into a two dimensional (2D) space, and determining a 2D texture coordinate of the first vertex based on the stretch perpendicular distance associated with the first vertex and the prediction candidate vertex. The process may also include determining a residual of a predicted coordinate of the first vertex and an actual 2D coordinate of the first vertex; and compressing the mesh based on entropy coding the residual.

Texture coordinate prediction in mesh compression

A method performed by at least one processor in a decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream that includes a compressed two dimensional (2D) mesh corresponding to a surface of three dimensional (3D) volumetric object. The method further includes predicting a current vertex included in the compressed 2D mesh based on an interpolation-based hierarchical prediction scheme that uses at least one sampled vertex included in the compressed 2D mesh. The method further includes deriving a prediction residual associated with the predicted current vertex. The method further includes reconstructing a boundary vertex associated with the 3D volumetric object based on the predicted current vertex and the derived prediction residual.

Coding of boundary UV2XYZ index for mesh compression

In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a data structure for a mesh frame with polygons representing a surface of an object. The data structure for the mesh frame includes a UV atlas that associates vertices of the mesh frame to UV coordinates in the UV atlas. The processing circuitry determines respective sampling rates for regions of the mesh frame according to respective characteristics of the regions of the mesh frame and applies, on the UV atlas, the respective sampling rates for the regions of the mesh frame to determine sampling positions on the UV atlas. The processing circuitry generates one or more sampled two dimensional (2D) maps for the mesh frame according to the sampling positions on the UV atlas, and encodes the one or more sampled 2D maps into a bitstream.

Method and apparatus of adaptive sampling for mesh compression by encoders

Aspects of the disclosure includes methods and apparatuses for mesh processing and a method of processing mesh data. The apparatus for mesh processing includes processing circuitry configured to receive coded information indicating that a displacement field of a chroma component of a current frame is down-sampled according to a sampling format. The down-sampled displacement field of the chroma component includes a first array of displacement vectors. The processing circuitry is configured to reconstruct the first array of displacement vectors of the down-sampled displacement field and up-sample the down-sampled displacement field according to the sampling format to generate an up-sampled displacement field of the chroma component that includes a second array of displacement vectors. The second array of displacement vectors includes the first array of displacement vectors and additional displacement vectors.

Upsampling of displacement field in mesh compression

Method, apparatus, and system for parallel dynamic mesh alignment are provided. The process may include determining that a temporal alignment is present between one or more frames in a received input mesh including a plurality of polygons that describe a surface of a volumetric object, then, determining an intra-frame alignment scheme to spatially align charts within a frame. The process may also include applying the intra-frame alignment scheme to one or more corresponding charts in the one or more frames for inter-frame alignment; and processing the one or more frames in parallel based on the intra-frame alignment scheme and inter-frame alignment.

Parallel approach to dynamic mesh alignment

A plurality of neighboring vertices of a current vertex in a current frame of a mesh is determined. The current frame corresponds to the mesh at a first time instance. Each of the plurality of neighboring vertices is connected to the current vertex through a respective edge in the mesh. A plurality of neighboring estimation errors of the plurality of neighboring vertices is determined. Each of the plurality of neighboring estimation errors indicates a difference between a reference vertex of a corresponding one of the plurality of neighboring vertices in a reference frame and the corresponding one of the plurality of neighboring vertices in the current frame. The reference frame corresponds to the mesh at a second time instance. A prediction residue of the current vertex is determined based on the plurality of neighboring estimation errors. Prediction information of the current vertex is generated based on the determined prediction residue.

Temporal prediction based vertex position compression

Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding. In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a bitstream carrying a 3D mesh frame. The 3D mesh frame represents a surface of an object with polygons, the polygons are defined by vertices and edges connecting the vertices, the 3D mesh frame is parameterized into a plurality of 2D charts in a 2D UV atlas. The processing circuitry determines respective chart based coding modes for the plurality of 2D charts according to one or more indices decoded from the bitstream, and decodes, from the bitstream, at least respective geometry information associated with the plurality of 2D charts according to the respective chart based coding modes. The processing circuitry reconstructs the 3D mesh frame according to the respective geometry information associated with the plurality of 2D charts.

Method and apparatus for chart based mesh compression

Method, apparatus, and system for atlas sampling-based dynamic mesh compression are provided. The process may include receiving a mesh frame with polygons representing a surface of an object; determining that the mesh frame is associated with an irregular UV chart in response to one or more singularity components in the mesh frame; performing boundary detection to the UV chart to identify one or more boundary loops in the UV chart; and compressing information of the identified one or more boundary loops into a bitstream.

Atlas sampling based mesh compression with charts of general topology

A method and apparatus that receives a coded video bitstream from an encoder; retrieves, from the coded video bitstream, a mesh including a plurality of polygons that describe one or more surfaces of a volumetric object; predicts a current value of an index of the UV-to-XYZ index array from at least one previously coded value included in another index in the UV-to-XYZ index array, wherein the UV-to-XYZ index array includes a plurality of indices which correspond each two-dimensional (2D) UV vertex associated with the mesh to a three-dimensional (3D) XYZ vertex associated with the mesh; derives a prediction residual associated with the current value of the index of the UV-to-XYZ index array; and reconstructs a boundary UV coordinate based on the predicted current value of the index of the UV-to-XYZ index array and the derived prediction residual.

Predictive coding of boundary UV2XYZ index for mesh compression

Coding information of a mesh is received. The coding information includes a plurality of first coordinates and a plurality of second coordinates corresponding to a plurality of vertices and a texture map that are associated with the mesh. A respective first coordinate and a respective second coordinate associated with each of the plurality of vertices are normalized by adjusting the respective first coordinate based on a first factor and the respective second coordinate based on a second factor. The first factor and the second factor are associated with at least one of (i) a bit depth value indicating a coded range of the first coordinates and the second coordinates and (ii) a size of the texture map. The normalized respective first coordinate and the normalized respective second coordinate are expanded based on the first factor and the second factor respectively.

UV coordinate ranges and texture map size

A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a first layer of a mesh including a plurality of first vertices from at least one frame of the volumetric data, determine displacement vectors from ones of the plurality of vertices of the first layer to respective ones of a plurality of second vertices of a second layer of the mesh, a total quantity of the plurality of second vertices is greater than a total quantity of the plurality of first vertices, and signal the volumetric data based on the displacement vectors.

Vertex prediction based on decoded neighbors

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for imaging: a side-view of a object on a surface, a Contact Angle of a liquid object, the color of an object, or combinations thereof.

Color imaging based assay

Method, apparatus, and system for generating temporally correlated UV atlases are provided. The process may include generating plurality of consistent UV charts based on partition information associated with one or more previous frames; removing one or more non-manifold vertices from the plurality of consistent UV charts based on assigning one or more incident faces associated with the one or more non-manifold vertices to corresponding UV charts; merging more than one of the plurality of consistent UV charts based on a similarity between the plurality of consistent UV charts and one or more reference charts associated with the one or more previous frames; and generating temporally correlated UV atlases for the current frame based on aligning the plurality of consistent UV charts with the one or more reference charts associated with the one or more previous frames.

Mesh parameterization with temporally correlated UV atlases

Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (e.g., compression and decompression). In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, using a decoder supporting a first bitdepth, a plurality of segmental attribute values having the first bitdepth from a bitstream carrying a mesh that represents a surface of an object. The plurality of segmental attribute values is associated with attribute values of the mesh, the attribute values of the mesh have a second bitdepth that is higher than the first bitdepth. The processing circuitry determines the attribute values of the mesh having the second bitdepth according to the plurality of segmental attribute values having the first bitdepth.

Segment based compression methods for mesh compression

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