Make some speed setting changes for temporal enhancement layers,
and remove the switch in subpel_force_stop for the aggressive_base_mv
in non-rd pickmode.
Gain some 2-3% speed with little/negligible quality loss.
Change-Id: I3e2a7f80ff45f38c0a6ceb01b34dbca2f53edbf0
This patch followed allow_exhaustive_searches feature modification and
continued to modify the encoder to achieve the determinism in the row
based multi-threaded encoding. While row-mt = 1 and using multiple
threads, the adaptive feature in encoder was disabled, which gave
BDRate gain(at speed 1, -0.6% ~ -0.7%; at speed 2, -0.46% ~ -0.59%),
but some encoder speed losses(7% ~ 10% at speed 1 and 3% ~ 6% at
speed 2). These speed losses were acceptable considering the speed
gains obtained from row-mt.
Change-Id: I60d87a25346ebc487a864b57d559f560b7e398bb
A previous patch turned on allow_exhaustive_searches feature only for
FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content. This patch further modified the feature
by removing the exhaustive search limit, and made it no longer adaptive.
As a result, the 2 counts that recorded the number of motion searches
were removed, which helped achieve the determinism in the row based
multi-threading encoding. Tests showed that this patch didn't cause
the encoder much slower.
Used exhaustive_searches_thresh for this speed feature, and removed
allow_exhaustive_searches. Also, refactored the speed feature code
to follow the general speed feature setting style.
Change-Id: Ib96b182c4c8dfff4c1ab91d2497cc42bb9e5a4aa
The allow_exhaustive_searches feature improves the encoding quality
of FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content a lot. For non-FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION
content, the quality test result is almost neutral. This patch makes
this feature to be used only for FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content.
The motivation of doing that is to make this feature no longer adaptive,
which will be implemented in the following patch.
Change-Id: Ic911df6dd757402b6480789cc247801e99840369
For low resolutions (<= CIF): use quarter-pixel and simple_block_yrd.
~5% gain on RTC_derf.
~6-7% slowdown on ARM.
Change-Id: I4439ebd1116b9decac04786503f978840b68a60c
Set adaptive_rd_thresh to 2 when simple block yrd is not used.
Fix regression caused by computing y sad without
int_pro_motion_estimation on low res motion clips.
Overall 0.07% quality loss on rtc_derf.
Change only affects low res on speed 8.
Change-Id: Ic6a188a56529f1034d6431005fb4b0e24e8a7e27
To prevent the motion vector out of range bug, added a motion vector unit
test in VP9. In the 4k video encoding, always forced to use extreme motion
vectors and also encouraged to use INTER modes. In the decoding, checked if
the motion vector was valid, and also checked the encoder/decoder mismatch.
The tests showed that this unit test could reveal the issue we saw before.
Change-Id: I0a880bd847dad8a13f7fd2012faf6868b02fa3b4
Refactor to split the 1 passs source sad computation into scene
detection (currently used for VBR and screen-content mode), and
superblock based source sad computation (used in non-rd CBR mode).
This allows the source sad computation for CBR mode to be
multi-threaded.
No change in compression.
Change-Id: I112f2918613ccbd37c1771d852606d3af18c1388
Allow for simple_block_rd for VGA resoln, and reduce
adaptive_rd_thresh to 1.
On average no loss on RTC set, ~4% speedup on mac.
Change-Id: Ib549c4061c853776062b5e34040f839d470fbebc
Change it to row based array to avoid the slow down cause by sync.
row-mt on, speed 8, 2 threads: ~4% speedup for VGA on ARM benefited
from adaptive_rd_threshold.
Change-Id: I887e65a53af20a6c4f48d293daaee09dab3512cf
For each superblock, keep track of how far from current frame
was the last significant content change, and use that (along
with GF distance), to turnoff GF search in non-rd pickmode.
Only enabled for speed >= 8.
avgPNSR on RTC/RTC_derf down by ~0.9/1.2.
Speedup on mac: ~3-5%.
Speedup on arm: 3.6% for VGA and 4.4% for HD.
Change-Id: Ic3f3d6a2af650aca6ba0064d2b1db8d48c035ac7
The sum of tx bloxk eobs is needed in the machine learning based partition
early termination. The eobs are first accumulated during tx search, and
then the value associated with the best tx_size is copied to ctx for later
use.
After the sum of eobs are calculated correctly, re-enabled
ml_partition_search_early_termination speed feature.
Re-did the quality/speed test to check the impact of the fix.
1. Borg test BDRATE result:
4k set: PSNR: +0.183%; SSIM: +0.100%;
hdres set: PSNR: +0.168%; SSIM: +0.256%;
midres set: PSNR: +0.186%; SSIM: +0.326%;
2.Average speed gain result:
4k clips: 21%;
hd clips: 26%;
midres clips: 15%.
The result is in line with the original result.
Change-Id: I4209a95c89be03b4cbfb6a95b16885f89feddbda
Reduce it from 5 to 4, small/no change in metrics or speed.
Small reduction in dragging artifact near moving head.
Change-Id: Ic3bc5ca67c70bf0c89fc2ed14454840a28ae5b6a
This patch was based on Yang Xian's intern project code. Further modifications
were done.
1. Moved machine-learning related parameters into the context structure.
2. Corrected the calculation of sum_eobs.
3. Removed unused parameters and calculations.
4. Made it work with multiple tiles.
5. Added a speed feature for the machine-learning based partition search
early termination.
6. Re-organized the code.
The patch was rebased to the top-of-tree.
Borg test BDRATE result:
4k set: PSNR: +0.144%; SSIM: +0.043%;
hdres set: PSNR: +0.149%; SSIM: +0.269%;
midres set: PSNR: +0.127%; SSIM: +0.257%;
Average speed gain result:
4k clips: 22%;
hd clips: 23%;
midres clips: 15%.
Change-Id: I0220e93a8277e6a7ea4b2c34b605966e3b1584ac
The 2 thresholds(i.e. partition_search_breakout_dist_thr and
partition_search_breakout_rate_thr) are used as the partition search
early termination speed feature. This refactoring patch made this
feature to be frame size dependent consistently throughout the code.
Change-Id: Idaa0bd8400badaa0f8e2091e3f41ed2544e71be9
Reduce the level from 4 to 2.
This gives ~1-2% quality gain on RTC set, with small decreaee in speed (~1-2% on mac).
Change-Id: I7d959731badcee3d45b2f4a08efe378765016a13
new_mt is a very generic name that will get obsolete soon enough.
Since this is exposed as a codec control, renaming it to row_mt to
signify row level paralellism. Also renaming the ETHREAD_BIT_MATCH
codec control to ROW_MT_BIT_EXACT.
Change-Id: Ic7872d78bb3b12fb4cf92ba028ec8e08eb3a9558
For speed 8 only.
3% speed up for QVGA and 6.3% for VGA on Nexus 6.
~3% avgPSNR decrease on rtc_derf and 2.9% on rtc.
Disabled for now.
Change-Id: I70133f1f6c804d663d594df437bfe7fdb0030d6a
Increase the variance partition thresholds for superblocks that
have low sum-diff (from source analysis prior to encoding frame).
Use it for now only for speed >= 7 or for denoising on.
Small change on metrics for rtc set: less than ~0.1 avgPNSR decrease
on RTC set, for both speed 7 and 8.
Change-Id: I38325046ebd5f371f51d6e91233d68ff73561af1
(Yunqing Wang)
This patch implements the row-based multi-threading within tiles in
the encoding pass, and substantially speeds up the multi-threaded
encoder in VP9.
Speed tests at speed 1 on STDHD(using 4 tiles) set show that the
average speedups of the encoding pass(second pass in the 2-pass
encoding) is 7% while using 2 threads, 16% while using 4 threads,
85% while using 8 threads, and 116% while using 16 threads.
Change-Id: I12e41dbc171951958af9e6d098efd6e2c82827de
Only for speed >= 7, and affects skipping of intra modes.
Threshold is set low for now, needs to be tuned.
Small/no difference in metrics on rtc clips.
Change-Id: If9bdbd43f08d1f80407cdd2e9e5e96780dcd2424
Avoid quality loss when copying partition of superblock with large motions.
Maximum consecutively copied frames can be set (currently 5).
Change-Id: I11c30575514f02194c0f001444cf4021609e5049
Also set the flag to 1 when exit early choosing 64x64 block
such that skipping new mv for golden works in these scenerios.
Change the size of prev_segment_id to the number of superblocks
to save memory.
Borg test shows quality regression of 0.012% on average PSNR
and 0.035% on SSIM.
Change-Id: I5014224c8617d439d35c66ece3fed9ae30b31d23
If enabled will compute source_sad for every superblock on every frame,
prior to encoding. Off by default, only on for speed=8 when
copy_partition is set.
Change-Id: Iab7903180a23dad369135e8234b7f896f20e1231
For speed 8, it speeds up the encoding on android by 6% for QVGA and
7.4% for VGA with the new threshold. Overall PSNR is improved by 0.667
for rtc.
Change-Id: I4a644560b32c0b5b4e9f49ffb953d000413a3732
Quality improved by 1.866 and 0.386 for two noisy clips (dark720p and
marcooffice720p), respectively.
Change-Id: Ib33a7672ae9ca53da156208f7cd13f07b5543e44
Set short_circuit_low_temp_var to 3 for speed 8 for all res.
No strong visual difference on all clips.
Change-Id: Ia6d9a314291ab1c14d5421bbdd769974083aeb2a
vp9: Set short circuit to level 3 for VGA for speed 8. Also change the
threshold_32x32 to 5/8*thresholds[1] to improve quality regression
caused to VGA clips.
Change-Id: Ia1590e91e7cb22be78d5b85013387bb1be4272e3
Add feature to copy partition from the last frame.
The copy is only done under certain conditions that SAD is below threshold.
Feature is currently disabled, until threshold is tuned.
Feature will be initially used for Speed 8 (ARM).
Under extreme case of always copying partition for speed 8:
Encode time is reduced by 5.4% on rtc_derf and 7.8% on rtc.
Overall PSNR reduced by 2.1 on rtc_derf and 0.968 on rtc.
Change-Id: I1bcab515af3088e4d60675758f72613c2d3dc7a5
