This patch includes:
1. fixes to disable block based termporal mixing when motion
is detected (because this version of mfqe only handles zero motion).
2. The criterion used for determining whether to mix or
not are changed to use squared differences rather than
absolute differences.
3. Additional checks on color mismatch and excessive block
flatness added. If the block as decoded has very low activity
it is unlikely to yield benefits for mixing.
Change-Id: I07331e5ab5ba64844c56e84b1a4b7de823eac6cb
In cases where you have a flat background occluded by a moving object
of similar luminosity in the foreground, it was likely that the
foreground blocks would persist for a few frames after the background
is uncovered. This is particularly noticable when the object has a
different color than the background, so add the chroma planes in as an
additional check.
In addition, for block sizes of 8 and 16, the luma threshold is
applied on four subblocks independently, which helps when only part of
the background in the block has been uncovered.
This fixes issue #392, which includes a test clip to reproduce the
issue.
BUG=392
Change-Id: I2bd7b2b0e25e912dcac342e5ad6e8914f5afd302
Reduced the size of the struct by 8 bytes, which would be
a memory savings of 64800 bytes for 1080 resolutions. Had
an extra byte, so created an is_4x4 for B_PRED or SPLITMV
modes. This simplified the mode checks in
vp8_reset_mb_tokens_context and vp8_decode_mb_tokens.
Change-Id: Ibec27784139abdc34d4d01f73c09f43e9e10e0f5
This new vp8_decode_mb_tokens() uses a modified version of
WebP's GetCoeffs function. For now, the dequant does not
occur in GetCoeffs.
Tests showed performance improvements up to 2.5% depending
on material.
Change-Id: Ia24d78627e16ffee5eb4d777ee8379a9270f07c5
Adds logic to disable mfqe for the first frame after a configuration
change such as change in resolution. Also adds some missing
if CONFIG_POSTPROC macro checks.
Change-Id: If29053dad50b676bd29189ab7f9fe250eb5d30b3
This change added a motion search skipping mechanism similar
to what we did in second pass. For a macroblock that is very
similar to the macroblock at same location on last frame,
we can set its mv to be zero, and skip motion search. This
improves first-pass performance for slide shows and video
conferencing clips with a slight PSNR loss.
Change-Id: Ic73f9ef5604270ddd6d433170091d20361dfe229
This issue likely doesn't appear in the unmodified encoder, but
sufficient hacking on the mode selection loop can expose it.
Change-Id: I8a35831e8f08b549806d0c2c6900d42af883f78f
Break MFQE code into it's own file.
It is currently only valid for 16x16 and 8x8 Y blocks. It also filters
4x4 U/V blocks.
Refactor filtering and add associated assembly. Limited test cases show
--mfqe introduces a penalty of ~20% with HD content. The assembly
reduces the penalty to ~15%
Change-Id: I4b8de6b5cdff5413037de5b6c42f437033ee55bf
Coefficient costing failed to take account of the first branch
being skipped ( 0 vs eob) if the previous token is 0.
Fixed rd to account for slightly increased token cost & cleaned up
warning message
Change-Id: I56140635d9f48a28dded5a816964e973a53975ef
Produce the token partitions on-the-fly, while processing each MB.
Context is updated at the beginning of each frame based on the
previoud frame's counters. Optimally encoder outputs partitions in
separate buffers. For frame based output, partitions are concatenated
internally.
Limitations:
- enabled just in combination with realtime-only mode
- number of encoding threads has to be equal or less than the
number of token partitions. For this reason, by default the encoder
will do 8 token partitions.
- vpxenc supports partition output (-P) just in combination with
IVF output format (--ivf)
Performance:
- Realtime encoder can be up to 13% faster (ARM) depending on the number
of threads and bitrate settings. Constant gain over the 5-16 speed
range.
- Token buffer reduced from one frame to 8 MBs
Quality:
- quality is affected by the delayed context updates. This again
dependents on input material, speed and bitrate settings. For VC
style input the loss seen is up to 0.2dB. If error-resilient=2
mode is used than the effect of this change is negligible.
Example:
./configure --enable-realtime-only --enable-onthefly-bitpacking
./vpxenc --rt --end-usage=1 --fps=30000/1000 -w 640 -h 480
--target-bitrate=1000 --token-parts=3 --static-thresh=2000
--ivf -P -t 4 -o strm.ivf tanya_640x480.yuv
Change-Id: I127295cb85b835fc287e1c0201a67e378d025d76
Eliminated some mb branches along with other code cleanups.
This is part of an ongoing effort to remove cut/paste
code in the decoder.
Change-Id: Ifabb0f67cafa6922b5a0e89a0d03a9b34e9e5752
Reworked the code to use vp8_build_intra_predictors_mby_s,
vp8_intra_prediction_down_copy, and vp8_intra4x4_predict_d_c
functions instead. vp8_intra4x4_predict_d_c is a decoder-only
version of vp8_intra4x4_predict. Future commits will fix this
code duplication.
Change-Id: Ifb4507103b7c83f8b94a872345191c49240154f5
When we encode slide-show clips, for the majority of the time,
only ZEROMV mode is checked, and all other modes are skipped.
This change delayed uv intra-mode evaluation until intra mode is
actually checked. This gave big performance gain for slide-show
video encoding (2nd pass gain: 18% to 28%). But, this change
doesn't help other types of videos.
Also, zbin_mode_boost is adjusted in mode-checking loop, which
causes bitstream mismatch before/after this change when --best
or --good with --cpu-used=0 are used.
Change-Id: I582b3e69fd384039994360e870e6e059c36a64cc
use oxcf instead of common in check to Reinit the
lookahead buffer if the frame size changes
prior behavior would cause assertion fail/crash
first observed in:
support changing resolution with vpx_codec_enc_config_set
Change-Id: Ib669916ca9b4f206d4cc3caab5107e49d39a36aa
