GQE-Net: A Graph-based Quality Enhancement Network for Point Cloud Color Attribute
dc.contributor.author | Xing, Jinrui | |
dc.contributor.author | Yuan, Hui | |
dc.contributor.author | Hamzaoui, Raouf | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Hao | |
dc.contributor.author | Hou, Junhui | |
dc.date.acceptance | 2023-10-31 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-02T11:58:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-02T11:58:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-31 | |
dc.description | The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. | |
dc.description.abstract | In recent years, point clouds have become increasingly popular for representing three-dimensional (3D) visual objects and scenes. To efficiently store and transmit point clouds, compression methods have been developed, but they often result in a degradation of quality. To reduce color distortion in point clouds, we propose a graph-based quality enhancement network (GQE-Net) that uses geometry information as an auxiliary input and graph convolution blocks to extract local features efficiently. Specifically, we use a parallel-serial graph attention module with a multi-head graph attention mechanism to focus on important points or features and help them fuse together. Additionally, we design a feature refinement module that takes into account the normals and geometry distance between points. To work within the limitations of GPU memory capacity, the distorted point cloud is divided into overlap-allowed 3D patches, which are sent to GQE-Net for quality enhancement. To account for differences in data distribution among different color components, three models are trained for the three color components. Experimental results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance. For example, when implementing GQE-Net on a recent test model of the geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) standard, 0.43 dB, 0.25 dB and 0.36 dB Bjϕntegaard delta (BD)-peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), corresponding to 14.0%, 9.3% and 14.5% BD-rate savings were achieved on dense point clouds for the Y, Cb, and Cr components, respectively. The source code of our method is available at https://github.com/xjr998/GQE-Net. | |
dc.funder | Other external funder (please detail below) | |
dc.funder.other | National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
dc.funder.other | Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province | |
dc.funder.other | Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province | |
dc.funder.other | Central Guidance Fund for Local Science and Technology Development of Shandong Province | |
dc.funder.other | High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Plan of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology | |
dc.funder.other | Hong Kong Research Grants Council | |
dc.funder.other | OPPO Research Fund | |
dc.identifier.citation | Xing, J., Yuan, H., Hamzaoui, R., Liu, H. and Hou, J. (2023) GQE-Net: A graph-based quality enhancement network for point cloud color attribute, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2023.3330086 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2086/23319 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.publisher | IEEE | |
dc.researchinstitute | Institute of Engineering Sciences (IES) | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | |
dc.subject | Point clouds | |
dc.subject | Quality enhancement | |
dc.subject | Graph neural network | |
dc.subject | G-PCC | |
dc.title | GQE-Net: A Graph-based Quality Enhancement Network for Point Cloud Color Attribute | |
dc.type | Article |
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