For new VP9 only content type adjust the rate distortion and ARF
filter based on the relative spatial variance of the source and
reconstruction.
In regards to the RD loop the method favors modes where the
reconstruction variance is similar to the source variance. However it
is currently only applied to regions where the source variance is quite
low.
For very low variance blocks it applies a further bias against intra
coding and large prediction block sizes (the later in particular limit
the usefulness of the loop filter).
The final part of this change is to lower the strength of the ARF
filter for blocks where the source has very low spatial variance, to
encourage some low amplitude texture or noise to pass through
the filter.
This change improves the retention of film grain and fine noise /
texture in spatially flat regions, but as expected causes a significant
drop in PSNR on many clips. This is to be expected because similar
but misaligned noise or texture will give a lower PSNR than a flat
noise free reconstruction. However, it is worth noting that most clips
show a strong gain in FAST SSIM.
The features are enabled on the vpxenc command line by setting
--tune-content=film.
VPX_ENCODER_ABI_VERSION bumped for this change and cvbr.
Change-Id: I26a4e4edfa3dc5cacead82fa701fe7a9118ccd0a
The intra mode rd penalty was implemented as a rate penalty.
Code was added to scale the penalty according to block size but
this was not done correctly for the SB level or sub 8x8.
The code did a weird double scaling in regard to bit depth that
has been removed. Given that it is a rate penalty the bit depth
should not matter.
This bug fix improves average metrics on our standard test
sets by about 0.1%
Change-Id: I7cf81b66aad0cda389fe234f47beba01c7493b1e
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
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
Add routine vp9_model_rd_from_var_lapndz_vec and call it from model_rd_for_sb
to model the rate and distortion for MAX_MB_PLANE Laplacian sources in
parallel. The caller ensures that all sources have non-zero variance.
Measured a 18% to 25% reduction in retired instructions, and 17% to 24%
reduction in instruction execution cost with different compilers for the
Laplacian modeling.
No change in behavior.
TEST=Verified that encoded files match bit for bit, with and without this
change.
BUG=b/33678225
Change-Id: I6b76947f21c659a349adb896e13e99f6e3f951e6
(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
(Yunqing)
This patch added the missing initialization in temporal filter.
Borg test BDRate results:
PSNR: -0.019%(lowres); -0.013%(hdres);
SSIM: -0.001%(lowres); -0.010%(hdres).
Other q values gave comparable but no better results.
Change-Id: I7ad0c18b39e6f558342688e2fe1e12fdb133ce9b
The bit to error transformation got doubled as a result of going from
8-bit to 9-bit costs (change d13385c).
Use defines to derive the scale numbers and comment some of the fields.
derf: -0.023 BDRATE
hevcmr: +0.067 BDRATE
stdhd: +0.098 BDRATE
(These are substantially smaller than than the original gains from 8 to
9 bit costing.)
Change-Id: I6a2b3b029b2f1415e4f90a05709b2333ec0eea9b
In inter mode search skip all modes except NEARESTMV and DC_PRED.
10% less encode latency for large frames using the chromium remoting_perftests.
+0.313% BDRATE on the screencast set at speed -6.
Change-Id: Ib97a39dd8bcdeab545509e0e02d78ce7033f8c63
This is a pure-refactor in preparation to potentially raise the bit-cost
resolution.
Verified at good speed 0 and rt speed -6.
Change-Id: I5347e6e8c28a9ad9dd0aae1d76a3d0f3c2335bb9
While turning on "--aq_mode=3", the quantizers are updated by each
thread. Fixed the me consts initialization function to make sure
that the correct thread data are updated.
Change-Id: Ied27bb7bae76fc3fa2cda4f8c35ac0b46271bef4
Frame buffers are now allocated dynamically on-demand.
Entries in the reference frame map, cm->ref_frame_map,
may now be set to -1 (INVALID_IDX) to indicate that
there is not a valid reference buffer in that "slot".
All slots in the reference frame map are now initialized
to the empty state (-1) and each buffer is initialized
to have a reference count of 0.
Change-Id: Id1afe98de98db4ae8b2dfefed7889c3b28c68582
This commit enables sub8x8 inter block coding for RTC mode. The
use of sub8x8 blocks can be turned on by allowing
choose_partitioning function to select 4x4/4x8/8x4 block sizes.
Change-Id: Ifbf1fb3888fe4c094fc85158ac3aa89867d8494a
This patch modified struct VP9_COMP. Created a struct ThreadData
to include data that need to be copied for each thread. In
multiple thread case, one thread processes one tile. all threads
share one copy of VP9_COMP,
(refer to VP9_COMP *cpi in the code)
but each thread has its own copy of ThreadData,
(refer to ThreadData *td in the code).
Therefore, within the scope of encode_tiles(), both cpi and td
need to be passed as function parameters.
In single thread case, the FRAME_COUNTS pointer in ThreadData
points to "counts" in VP9_COMMON.
Change-Id: Ib37908b2d8e2c0f4f9c18f38017df5ce60e8b13e
Similar to mask_filter, the filter_cache in RD_OPT struct can be
moved out, and declared as a local variable since it is only
used in pick_inter_mode functions.
Change-Id: I412b99cca82bade07ac912064ec03dd1de6b2c17
The mask_filter in RD_OPT struct is used to record rd result in
filter decision. It is only used in pick_inter_mode functions,
and is removed from the struct and declared as a local variable.
Change-Id: I3c95c8632ba7241591ce00ef2ef5677b5e297d7b
These 2 members in RD_OPT were moved to TileDataEnc struct
already, and therefore were removed here.
Change-Id: I22fee3b67f96e473a58e194a7edc76dbd48bfa04
Several frame counters in encoder are updated at SB level. Combine
those counters and put them in a separate struct, which allows us
to allocate one copy for each thread.
Change-Id: I00366296a13c0ada4d8fa12f5e07728388b6cab7
This commit makes a struct that contains rate value, distortion
value, and the rate-distortion cost. The goal is to provide a
better interface for rate-distortion related operation. It is
first used in rd_pick_partition and saves a few RDCOST calculations.
Change-Id: I1a6ab7b35282d3c80195af59b6810e577544691f
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
