TAFA-GSGC: Group-wise Scalable Point Cloud Geometry Compression with Progressive Residual Refinement
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Scalable compression is essential for bandwidth-adaptive transmission, yet most learned codecs are optimized for a fixed rate-distortion point, making rate adaptation costly due to re-encoding or maintaining multiple bitstreams. In this work, we propose TAFA-GSGC, a scalable learned point cloud geometry codec that enables multi-quality decoding from a single bitstream and a single trained model. TAFA-GSGC combines layered residual refinement with channel-group entropy coding, and introduces a Target-Aligned Feature Aggregation module to reduce cross-layer redundancy in enhancement residuals. Our framework supports up to 9 decodable quality levels with monotonic quality improvement as more subbitstreams are received, while maintaining strong compression efficiency. Compared with the PCGCv2 baseline, TAFA-GSGC demonstrates improved RD performance, achieving average BD-rate reductions of 4.99% and 5.92% in terms of D1-PSNR and D2-PSNR, respectively.