Copyright (c) 2017-2026, Stichting Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI).
This repository is a compression library for cwipc pointcloud objects. It is part of the cwipc suite, https://github.com/cwi-dis/cwipc, and should generally be installed or built as part of that suite.
See the cwipc readme file for details.
This distribution contains a compressor and decompressor for pointclouds. It uses the cwipc abstract object to represent pointclouds.
It is a modified version of the cwi-pcl-codec distribution, from http://github.com/cwi-dis/cwi-pcl-codec. Both distributions share the same codec, described in the following journal paper:
(R. Mekuria, K. Blom, and P. Cesar, "Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Point Cloud Codec for Tele-Immersive Video," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 27(4): 828 -842, 2017
When cwipc_codec is built from source (as part of the cwipc suite) it is possible to use the codec using the same API as specified in that paper and in the cwi-pcl-codec repository. Simply add the include (and possibly source) directory to your project.