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Depth range reduction for 3D range geometry compression
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Depth range reduction for 3D range geometry compression

Matthew G Finley and Tyler Bell
Optics and lasers in engineering, Vol.138, 106457
03/2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2020.106457
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.00763View
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Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement devices and techniques are being rapidly adopted within a variety of industries and applications. As acquiring 3D range data becomes faster and more accurate it becomes more challenging to efficiently store, transmit, or stream this data. One prevailing approach to compressing 3D range data is to encode it within the color channels of regular 2D images. This paper presents a novel method for reducing the depth range of a 3D geometry such that it can be stored within a 2D image using lower encoding frequencies (or a fewer number of encoding periods). This allows for smaller compressed file sizes to be achieved without a proportional increase in reconstruction errors. Further, as the proposed method occurs prior to encoding, it is readily compatible with a variety of existing image-based 3D range geometry compression methods.
3D range data compression Depth encoding Depth range reduction Fringe analysis Range image processing

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