Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting point cloud data, including encoding the point cloud data and transmitting a bitstream including the point cloud data. Disclosed herein is a method for receiving point cloud data, including receiving a bitstream including point cloud data and decoding the point cloud data.

A control circuit accesses patient image content as well as field geometry information regarding a particular radiation treatment platform. The control circuit then generates a predicted three-dimensional dose map for the radiation treatment plan as a function of both the patient image content and the field geometry information.

An image decoding method and apparatus according to the present disclosure may determine an inter prediction mode of a current block, derive motion information of a current block according to the inter prediction mode, obtain a first prediction block of the current block based on the motion information, and obtain a second prediction block of the current block by applying at least one of a weight, an offset, or a first variable for explicit weighted prediction to the first prediction block.

Disclosed is a data transmission system that transmits data by using a relay. The relay selects a transmission terminal from among a plurality of terminals accessing a base station. A base station transmits base station data to the relay during a first time slot, and the transmission terminal transmits terminal data to the relay. The relay transmits terminal data to the base station during a second time slot, and transmits base station data to the transmission terminal.

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of reducing an increase in a load imposed by processing of multispectral image data. Multispectral image data including components in four or more wavelength bands is simple-coded at a fixed compression rate. Alternatively, coded data generated by simple coding at a fixed compression rate for multispectral image data including components in four or more wavelength bands is simple-decoded. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus, an image coding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging apparatus, or the like.

A prediction method, an encoder, a decoder, and a computer storage medium are provided. The prediction method applied to an encoder includes: determining a spatial block in which an encoding point is located; constructing a prediction model according to the spatial block; acquiring a value of a first colour component and a value of a second colour component of the encoding point; obtaining a prediction value of the second colour component of the encoding point by using the prediction model and the value of the first colour component; calculating a difference between the value of the second colour component and the prediction value of the second colour component, and using the obtained difference as a residual of the encoding point; and performing Level of Detail (LOD) partitioning and lifting transform based on the residual of the encoding point.

An example of processing a point cloud includes responsive to determining to predict a current point in the point cloud using predictive geometry coding, selecting, from a set of prediction modes, a prediction mode for the current point, wherein the set of prediction modes includes at least an intra prediction mode and an inter prediction mode; and responsive to selecting the inter prediction mode for the current point, predicting the current point of the point cloud using inter prediction.

A device for decoding a bitstream that includes point cloud data is configured to determine an octree that defines an octree-based splitting of a space containing the point cloud, wherein a leaf node of the octree contains one or more points of the point cloud; and directly decode positions of each of the one or more points in the leaf node, wherein to directly decode the positions of each of the one or more points in the leaf node, the one or more processors are further configured to: generate a prediction of the one or more points; and determine the one or more points based on the prediction.

A method for detecting a human skeleton is provided. The method includes: receiving a video frame, wherein the video frame comprises a human body; determining whether the video frame comprises prediction information; determining whether a first intra-coded macroblock (IMB) ratio of a target area comprising the human body in the video frame is greater than a first threshold when the video frame comprises the prediction information; and using a motion vector (MV) to estimate skeleton information of the human body when the first IMB ratio of the target area is not greater than the first threshold.

According to an embodiment, an image coding method is for coding an image including a luminance component and color difference components. The method includes acquiring a reference image; and generating a predicted image by interpolating the luminance component and the color difference components in the reference image according to a motion vector. If a size of a block, which is designated as a unit of the interpolation, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold value, the generating includes inhibiting a bi-directional prediction, and performing only a uni-directional prediction to generate the predicted image according to the motion vector.