Characterizing real-time dense point cloud capture and streaming on mobile devices
Jinhan Hu, Aashiq Shaikh, Alireza Bahremand, Robert LiKamWa · 2021
Point clouds are a dense compilation of millions of points that can advance content creation and interaction in various emerging applications such as Augmented Reality (AR). However, point clouds consist of per-point real-world spatial and color information that are too computationally intensive to meet real-time specifications, especially on mobile devices. To stream dense point cloud (PtCl) to mobile devices, existing solutions encode pre-captured point clouds, yet with PtCl capturing treated as a separate offline operation.