Allow for 3 quant profiles from entropy context
Refactored dq_offset bands to allow for re-optimization based on number
of quantization profiles
Change-Id: Ib8d7e8854ad4e0bf8745038df28833d91efcfbea
Under the experiment of CONFIG_LAST4_REF. On derflr testset, using
highbitdepth (HBD), in average PSNR,
(1) LAST2+LAST3+LAST4 obtained +0.361% against LAST2+LAST3;
(2) LAST2+LAST3+LAST4 obtained +1.567% against baesline.
Change-Id: Ic8b14272de6a569df2b54418fa72b505e1ed3aad
Under experiment CONFIG_LAST3_REF, which can only be turned on when
the experiment of CONFIG_MULTI_REF is on, i.e. LAST3_FRAME can only
be used when LAST2_FRAME is used. CONFIG_LAST3_REF would most likely
be combined with CONFIG_MULTI_REF once the performance improvement
is further confirmed.
On the testset of derflr, using Average PSNR metrics, with HighBitDepth
(HBD) on:
(1) LAST2 HBD obtained +0.579% against base HBD;
(2) LAST2 + LAST3 HBD obtained +0.591% against LAST2 HBD;
(3) LAST2 + LAST3 HBD obtained +1.173% against base HBD.
Change-Id: I1aa2b2e2d2c9834e5f8e61bf2d8818c7b1516669
Turning on all the other experiments, compared the RD performance
between with and without the use of LAST2_FRAME, on derflr testset,
on Average PSNR:
8-bit: +0.653% (All positive except one,
max: mobile_cif: 2.019%; min: paris_cif: -0.081%)
12-bit HBD: +0.735% (All positive,
max: bridge_far_cif: 2.416%; min: bowing_cif: 0.132%)
Change-Id: Ia0a375667e228c8ba3d2e223abff608206f2f545
Under the experiment CONFIG_MULTI_REF. Current version shows
LAST2 vs base in nextgen on the testset of derflr:
(1) 8-bit: Average PSNR +0.53%
(worst: students_cif: -0.247%; best: mobile_cif: 1.902%)
(2) 12-bit HBD: Average PSNR +0.63%
(worst: pamphlet_cif: -0.213%, best: mobile_cif: 2.101%)
More tuning on the reference frame context design and default
probs are being conducted. This version does not guarantee to
work with other experiments in nextgen. A separate CL will address
the working with all other experiments.
Change-Id: I7f40d2522517afc26ca389c995bad56989587f65
Framework for alternate transforms for inter 32x32 and larger based
on dwt-dct hybrid is implemented.
Further experiments are to be condcuted with different
variations of hybrid dct/dwt or plain dwt, as well as super-resolution
mode.
Change-Id: I9a2bf49ba317e7668002cf1499211d7da6fa14ad
Runborgs results on derflr show consistent results between NEW_INTER
and the previous combination of NEWMVREF and COMPOUND_MODES.
Change-Id: Ieba239c4faa7f93bc5c05ad656a7a3b818b4fbfc
Use separate token probabilities and counters for non-transform
blocks (pixel domain) . Initial probabilities are trained with screen_content
clips. On screen_content, it improves coding performance by about
2% (from +16.4% to +18.45%).
The initial probabilities are not optimized for natural videos. So it should
not be used for natural videos. Set FOR_SCREEN_CONTENT as 0/1 to specify
whether or not to enable this patch.
Change-Id: Ifa361c94bb62aa4b783cbfa50de08c3fecae0984
This experiment, referred as NEWMVREF, also merged with NEWMVREF_SUB8X8
and the latter one has been removed. Runborgs results show that:
(1) Turning on this experiment only, compared against the base:
derflf: Average PSNR 0.40%; Overall PSNR 0.40%; SSIM 0.35%
(2) Turning on all the experiments including this feature, compared against
that without this feature, on the highbitdepth case using 12-bit:
derflf: Average PSNR 0.33%; Overall PSNR 0.32%; SSIM 0.30%.
Now for highbitdepth using 12-bit, compared against base:
derflf: Average PSNR 11.12%; Overall PSNR 11.07%; SSIM 20.27%.
Change-Id: Ie61dbfd5a19b8652920d2c602201a25a018a87a6
The basic idea is to use a pixel’s neighboring colors as
context to predict its own color. Up to 4 neighbors are
considered here: left, left-above, above, right-above.
To reduce the number of contexts, the combination of any
4 (or less) colors are mapped to a reduced number of
patterns. For example, 1111, 2222, 3333, … , can be mapped
to the same pattern: AAAA. SImilarly, 1122, 1133, 2233, …,
can be mapped to the pattern AABB. In this way, the total
number of color contexts is reduced to 16.
This almost doubles the gain of palette coding on screen
content videos.
on screen_content
--enable-palette +14.2%
--enable-palette --enable-tx-skip +21.2%
on derflr
--enable-palette +0.12%
with all other experiments +6.16%
Change-Id: I560306dae216f2ac11a9214968c2ad2319fa1718
COMPOUND_MODES experiment encodes separate MV modes for each frame in a compound
reference prediction. Added modes NEAREST_NEARESTMV, ZERO_ZEROMV,
NEW_NEWMV, NEAREST_NEARMV, NEAR_NEARESTMV, NEW_NEARESTMV, NEAR_NEWMV,
NEW_NEARMV, and NEAREST_NEWMV.
Also enhances the wedge-partition expt to work better with compound
modes.
Results:
derflr +0.227
All experiments on: derflr +5.218
Change-Id: I719e8a34826bf1f1fe3988dac5733a845a89ef2b
A smooth weighting scheme is used to put more weight
on the intra predictor samples near the left/top boundaries
and decaying it to favor the inter predictor samples more as
we move away from these boundaries in the direction of
prediction.
Results:
derflr: +0.609% with only this experiment
derflr: +3.901% with all experiments
Change-Id: Ic9dbe599ad6162fb05900059cbd6fc88b203a09c
Extends the ext-tx experiment to include regular and flipped
DST variants. A total of 9 transforms are thus possible for
each inter block with transform size <= 16x16.
In this patch currently only the four ADST_ADST variants
(flipped or non-flipped in both dimensions) are enabled
for inter blocks.
The gain with the ext-tx experiment grows to +1.12 on derflr.
Further experiments are underway.
Change-Id: Ia2ed19a334face6135b064748f727fdc9db278ec
Preliminary 64x64 transform implementation.
Includes all code changes.
All mismatches resolved.
Coding results for derf and stdhd are within noise. stdhd is slightly
higher, derf is slightly lower.
To be further refined.
Change-Id: I091c183f62b156d23ed6f648202eb96c82e69b4b
mi_grid_* are arrays of pointer to pointer. They save the pointers that point
to the MIs in cm->mi. But they are unnecessary and complicated. The original
goal was to remove MODE_INFO_t copy. But with an extra MODE_INFO_t pointer
inside MODE_INFO_t, same goal could be achieved.
This commit totally removes the mi_grid_* structures. But there are still
many dummy MODE_INFO_t inside cm->mi which are a waste of memory. Next commit
will do on-demand MODE_INFO_t allocation in order to save these memories.
Change-Id: I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6
This commit makes the encoder to use non-zero mode threshold for
NEARESTMV modes. The runtime for test clips of speed 3 is reduced
by about 1%.
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps, 143239 ms -> 141989 ms
bus CIF 1000 kbps, 7835 ms -> 7749 ms
The compression performance change is about -0.02% for both derf
and stdhd.
Change-Id: Ib71808922c41ae2997100cb7c561f68dcebfa08e
When a reference frame type is not in the frame buffer, the mode
search threshold will be set to INT_MAX, so as to effectively
turn off the mode entries in the rate-distortion optimization loop
that involves this reference frame type. This operation is now
integrated in the ref_frame_skip_mask scheme. This commit hence
removes the redundant mode search threshold setting.
Change-Id: Ib18f45da611afda2af275201efd367df7f5101ab
This commit turns on adaptive motion search for ARF coding, in
addition to other normal inter frame coding. It improves the
average compression efficiency:
stdhd 0.1%
derf 0.04%
For the test sequences, the speed 3 runtime is reduced:
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps, 149932 ms -> 144580 ms, (3.3% speed-up)
bus CIF 1000 kbps, 8050 ms -> 7895 ms, (1.9%)
highway CIF 100 bkps, 45033 ms -> 44078 ms, (2.2%)
Change-Id: I5228565b609f99e8ae04f6140a2bf2b64a831d21
We had a very complicated way to initialize cpi->pass from
cfg->g_pass:
switch (cfg->g_pass) {
case VPX_RC_ONE_PASS:
oxcf->mode = ONE_PASS_GOOD;
break;
case VPX_RC_FIRST_PASS:
oxcf->mode = TWO_PASS_FIRST;
break;
case VPX_RC_LAST_PASS:
oxcf->mode = TWO_PASS_SECOND_BEST;
break;
}
cpi->pass = get_pass(oxcf->mode).
Now pass is moved to VP9EncoderConfig and initialization is simple:
switch (cfg->g_pass) {
case VPX_RC_ONE_PASS:
oxcf->pass = 0;
break;
case VPX_RC_FIRST_PASS:
oxcf->pass = 1;
break;
case VPX_RC_LAST_PASS:
oxcf->pass = 2;
break;
}
Change-Id: I8f582203a4575f5e39b071598484a8ad2b72e0d9
2 pass only change to calculation of rd mult based on Q.
Make a small adjustment based on frame type and also
replace adjustment based on iifactor with an one based
on the ambient GF/ARF boost level.
Also fix multi arf bug / issue.
Overall these change give an slight improvement in ssim
but hurt psnr a little.
Change-Id: I5e1751e3ff5390a26f543d7855059e6fbcce105e
vp9_rdopt is for making rd optimal mode decisions. vp9_rd is for all
other rd related routines. Anything used outside of making an rd optimal
decision belongs in rd.
Change-Id: I772a3073f7588bdf139f551fb9810b6864d8e64b
