Work-in-progress, not yet ready for review. TODO items:
- bitstream writing (encoder) and reading (decoder)
- decoder reconstruction
Change-Id: I5afb7284e7e0480847b47cd0097cb469433c9081
Further simplification of mvref search to return
only the top two candidates. Distance weights removed
as the test order reflects distance anyway.
Change-Id: I0518cab7280258fec2058670add4f853fab7b855
Clamp only the motion vectors inferred from neighboring reference
macroblocks. The motion vectors obtained through motion search in
NEWMV mode are constrained during the search process, which allows
a relatively larger referencing region than the inferred mvs.
Hence further clamping the best mv provided by the motion search may
affect the efficacy of NEWMV mode.
Synchronized the decoding process. The decoded mvs in NEWMV modes
should be guaranteed to fit in the effective range. Put a mv range
clamping function there for security purpose.
This improves the coding performance of high motion sequences, e.g.,
derf set:
foreman 0.233%
husky 0.175%
icd 0.135%
mother_daughter 0.337%
pamphlet 0.561%
stdhd set:
blue_sky 0.408%
city 0.455%
also saw sunflower goes down by -0.469%.
Change-Id: I3fcbba669e56dab779857a8126a91b926e899cb5
Replace as_mv.{first, second} with a two element array, so that they
can easily be processed with an index variable.
Change-Id: I1e429155544d2a94a5b72a5b467c53d8b8728190
This patch adds column-based tiling. The idea is to make each tile
independently decodable (after reading the common frame header) and
also independendly encodable (minus within-frame cost adjustments in
the RD loop) to speed-up hardware & software en/decoders if they used
multi-threading. Column-based tiling has the added advantage (over
other tiling methods) that it minimizes realtime use-case latency,
since all threads can start encoding data as soon as the first SB-row
worth of data is available to the encoder.
There is some test code that does random tile ordering in the decoder,
to confirm that each tile is indeed independently decodable from other
tiles in the same frame. At tile edges, all contexts assume default
values (i.e. 0, 0 motion vector, no coefficients, DC intra4x4 mode),
and motion vector search and ordering do not cross tiles in the same
frame.
t log
Tile independence is not maintained between frames ATM, i.e. tile 0 of
frame 1 is free to use motion vectors that point into any tile of frame
0. We support 1 (i.e. no tiling), 2 or 4 column-tiles.
The loopfilter crosses tile boundaries. I discussed this briefly with Aki
and he says that's OK. An in-loop loopfilter would need to do some sync
between tile threads, but that shouldn't be a big issue.
Resuls: with tiling disabled, we go up slightly because of improved edge
use in the intra4x4 prediction. With 2 tiles, we lose about ~1% on derf,
~0.35% on HD and ~0.55% on STD/HD. With 4 tiles, we lose another ~1.5%
on derf ~0.77% on HD and ~0.85% on STD/HD. Most of this loss is
concentrated in the low-bitrate end of clips, and most of it is because
of the loss of edges at tile boundaries and the resulting loss of intra
predictors.
TODO:
- more tiles (perhaps allow row-based tiling also, and max. 8 tiles)?
- maybe optionally (for EC purposes), motion vectors themselves
should not cross tile edges, or we should emulate such borders as
if they were off-frame, to limit error propagation to within one
tile only. This doesn't have to be the default behaviour but could
be an optional bitstream flag.
Change-Id: I5951c3a0742a767b20bc9fb5af685d9892c2c96f
Adds an error-resilient mode where frames can be continued
to be decoded even when there are errors (due to network losses)
on a prior frame. Specifically, backward updates are turned off
and probabilities of various symbols are reset to defaults at
the beginning of each frame. Further, the last frame's mvs are
not used for the mv reference list, and the sorting of the
initial list based on search on previous frames is turned off
as well.
Also adds a test where an arbitrary set of frames are skipped
from decoding to simulate errors. The test verifies (1) that if
the error frames are droppable - i.e. frame buffer updates have
been turned off - there are no mismatch errors for the remaining
frames after the error frames; and (2) if the error-frames are non
droppable, there are not only no decoding errors but the mismatch
PSNR between the decoder's version of the post-error frames and the
encoder's version is at least 20 dB.
Change-Id: Ie6e2bcd436b1e8643270356d3a930e8989ff52a5
For coefficients, use int16_t (instead of short); for pixel values in
16-bit intermediates, use uint16_t (instead of unsigned short); for all
others, use uint8_t (instead of unsigned char).
Change-Id: I3619cd9abf106c3742eccc2e2f5e89a62774f7da
Some further changes and refactoring of mv
reference code and selection of center point for
searches. Mainly relates to not passing so many
different local copies of things around.
Some place holder comments.
Change-Id: I309f10ffe9a9cde7663e7eae19eb594371c8d055
Support for gyp which doesn't support multiple objects in the same
static library having the same basename.
Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc
