A time series 3D hierarchy for real-time dynamic point cloud interaction

  • Authors:
  • Hossein Azari;Irene Cheng;Anup Basu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CA;University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CA;University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CA

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Technical Briefs
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Point-based scanning is commonly used for 3D data acquisition. Applications can simply adopt a point cloud representation avoiding the computational complexity of connectivity construction. Despite many state-of-the-art algorithms discussing point cloud representation and rendering, research on dynamic point cloud visualization and interaction still lacks sufficient attention. We propose a time series hierarchy for interactive rendering of dynamic point-based 3D models. The synchronization of spatio-temporal attributes in the hierarchy makes this structure novel. A balanced hierarchy together with a compact quantization encoding scheme, results in higher precision, efficient memory usage and responsive user interaction. This representation provides smooth visualization of dense dynamic point-based models, in long sequences of 3D frames, at interactive frame rates and quality rendering, which can be displayed on regular desktops or mobile devices in either single-view or multi-view mode. A prototype system is implemented to validate the feasibility of our approach.