PointCloud Color compression

[Robin-Wutschert]

I have used PointCloudBuilder to encode positions and colors using

draco::PointCloudBuilder pcBuilder;
pcBuilder.Start(pointCount);
int posId = pcBuilder.AddAttribute(draco::GeometryAttribute::POSITION, 3, draco::DT_FLOAT32);
pcBuilder.SetAttributeValuesForAllPoints(posId, positions.data(), sizeOfPosition);
int colId = pcBuilder.AddAttribute(draco::GeometryAttribute::COLOR, 3, draco::DT_UINT8);
pcBuilder.SetAttributeValuesForAllPoints(colId, colors.data(), sizeOfColor);
std::unique_ptr<draco::PointCloud> pc = pcBuilder.Finalize(false);

draco::Encoder encoder;
encoder.SetSpeedOptions(7, 7);
encoder.SetAttributeQuantization(draco::GeometryAttribute::POSITION, 16);
encoder.SetAttributeQuantization(draco::GeometryAttribute::COLOR, 6);

draco::EncoderBuffer encBuff;
encoder.EncodePointCloudToBuffer(*pc, &encBuff);

Unfortunately, it appears that there is no compression happening on colors... Is it something that will be added?! To improve that, I have decided to encode colors with RGB565 manually. Thus, I modified only the following line :

int colId = pcBuilder.AddAttribute(draco::GeometryAttribute::COLOR, 1, draco::DT_UINT16);

Unfortunately, colors are inconsistent after decompression by using RGB565 (I tested it without draco compression and it works). Am I missing something ? Is there any issue there?!

Thank you for the great work, position compression is awesome!

[ondys]

Quantization is used only for floating points attributes. Integer attributes are compressed losslessly. Basically quantization converts floating point attributes into integer attributes (lossy operation) that are then compressed without loss. If integer attributes are provided, Draco treats them as pre-quantized.