Atlas represents a set of 2D bounding boxes. It may be patches, for example, patches projected onto a rectangular frame. Atlas may correspond to a 3D bounding box in a 3D space, and may represent a subset of a point cloud.
An attribute may represent a scalar or vector associated with each point in the point cloud. For example, the attributes may include color, reflectance, surface normal, time stamps, material ID.
The point cloud data according to the embodiments represents PCC data according to video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC) scheme. The point cloud data may include a plurality of components. For example, it may include an occupancy map, a patch, geometry and/or texture.
The figure illustrates a V-PCC encoding process for generating and compressing an occupancy map, a geometry image, a texture image, and auxiliary patch information. The V-PCC encoding process of
The patch generation or patch generator 40000 receives a point cloud frame (which may be in the form of a bitstream containing point cloud data). The patch generator 40000 generates a patch from the point cloud data. In addition, patch information including information about patch generation is generated.