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Proteus model offers robust LiDAR compression with 70% truncation tolerance

Researchers have developed Proteus, a novel compression model specifically designed for LiDAR point clouds. This model employs a unique strategy of separating the significant bit-planes (SIG) from the insignificant ones (INS) to ensure robustness against data truncation. The SIG block provides a fundamental perceptual lower bound, while the INS block progressively reconstructs details, allowing the system to tolerate up to approximately 70% bitstream truncation. Proteus outperforms existing standards like G-PCC, Draco, and JPEG XL, as well as the learned compressor Unicorn, in various compression scenarios. AI

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Proteus model offers robust LiDAR compression with 70% truncation tolerance

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yihan Qiu, Xiaodong Lin, Baoquan Zhao, Hailong Jiao, Ge Li ·

    Proteus: A Truncation-Robust Entropy Model for Progressive LiDAR Compression

    arXiv:2608.00687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR point clouds provide explicit, deterministic physical boundaries critical for collaborative safety-critical perception. However, wireless channels inherently impair and corrupt transmitted signals. Existing robust frameworks (…