For ease of testing and merging experiments I have
removed in line code in encode_frame() that assigns
MBs to be t8x8 or t4x4 coded segments and have
moved the decision point and segment setup to
the init_seg_features0 test function.
Keeping everything in one place helps make sure
for now that experiments using segmentation are
not fighting each other.
Also made sure mode selection code can't choose 4x4
modes if t8x8 is selected.
Patch2: In init_seg_features() add checks
for SEG_LVL_TRANSFORM active.
Change-Id: Ia1767edd99b78510011d4251539f9bc325842e3a
Removed code in #if CONFIG_SEGMENTATION that
enables segmentation and creates a test segmentation
map, to avoid conflicts with the other segmentation test
code,
Change-Id: I7a21a44ed188b814cd80b30dd628c62474eba730
Initial attempt at using new segment feature signaling
to indicate 4x4 or 8x8 transform.
needs --enable-experimental --enable-t8x8
Note this is work in progress.
Change-Id: Ib160d46a5d810307bfcbc79853ce1a65b5b870b7
Temporary check in to turn off other segment features
tests when #if CONFIG_T8X8 is set as the assignment of
MBs to differnt segments in each case will conflict.
The 8x8 code will be modified to use the new segment
feature method properly in a later check in.
Increase bits allowed for EOB end stop marker to 6 ready
for 8x8.
Change-Id: I4835bc8d3bf98e1775c3d247d778639c90b01f7f
No change to functionality or output.
Updates to the segment feature data structure now all done
through functions such as set_segdata() and get_segdata()
in seg_common.c.
The reason for this is to make changing the structures (if needed)
and debug easier.
In addition it provides a single location for subsequent addition
of range and validity checks. For example valid combination of
mode and reference frame.
Change-Id: I2e866505562db4e4cb6f17a472b25b4465f01add
This commit tries to do UV intra mode coding adaptive to Y intra mode.
Entropy context is defined as conditional PDF of uv intra mode given
the Y mode. All constants are normalized with 256 to be fit in 8 bits.
This provides further coding efficiency beyond the quantizer adaptive
y intra mode coding. Consistent gains were observed on all clips and
all bit rates for HD all key encoding tests.
To test, configure with
--enable-experimental --enable-uvintra
Change-Id: I2d78d73f143127f063e19bd0bac3b68c418d756a
Removal of configure #ifdefs so that segment features
always available. Removal of code supporting old
segment feature method.
Still a good deal of tidying up to do.
Change-Id: I397855f086f8c09ab1fae0a5f65d9e06d2e3e39f
Modify reference frame segmentation so that ONE or MORE
reference frames may be marked as a available for a given
segment.
Fixed bugs relating to segment coding of INTRA and some
INTER modes at the segment level.
Modified Q boost for static areas based on ambient average Q.
Strong results now on clips with significant static areas.
(some data points in derf set as high as 9% and some static &
slide show type content in YT set > 20%)
Change-Id: Ia79f912efa84b977f35a23683ae3643251e24f0c
Some correction for entropy impact of segment signaled (EOB and ref frame)
Other slight tweaks.
Derf VBR average gain now over 1% (best over 7%)
One YT test clip has gains of circa 30% (VBR)
There is still an issue with noisy clips where making the background static
and coded with 0,0 can have a negative effect, especially at low Q.
This is probably because of the loss of smoothing by fractional pixel filters.
Change-Id: I7a225613c98067b96f8fc7a7e36f95d465b2b834
Only encode sign bit for feature data that can have a sign.
Tweaks to the test segmentation rules so that it now actually gives
a net benefit on the derf set of about 0.4% though much higher
on some clips at the low end.
Change-Id: I8e61f1aebf41c9037db7e67e2f8975aa18a0c986
This quite large check in includes the following:
Merge in some code from Ronald (mbgraph.c) that scans a Gf/arf group.
This is used as a basis for a simple segmentation for the normal frames
in a gf/arf group. This code also uses satd functions from Yaowu.
Adds functionality for coding the latest possible position of an EOB for
blocks in the segment. (Currently 0-15 only, hence just for 4x4 dct).
Where the EOB position is 0 this acts like "skip" and the normal coding
of skip at the per mb level is disabled.
Added functions (seg_common.c) for setting and reading segment feature
elements. These may want to be optimized away at some point but while the
mecahnism is in a state of flux they provide a single location for making
changes and keep things a bit cleaner.
This is still proof of concept code. Currently the tested feature set:-
Quantizer,
Loop Filter level,
Reference frame,
Prediction Mode,
EOB end stop.
TBD:-
Add functions for setting and reading the feature data with range
and validity checking.
Handling of signed and unsigned feature data. At the moment all is assumed
to be signed and a sign bit is coded but many cannot be negative.
Correct handling of EOB feature with intra coded blocks.
Testing/trapping of legal/illegal ref frame and mode combinations.
Transform size switch plus merge and test with 8c8 DCT work
Merge and test with Sumans Segmenation coding optimizations
Change-Id: Iee12e83661c7abbd1e0ce6810915eb4ec35e2d8e
Proof of concept test code that encodes mode and reference
frame data at the segment level.
Decode-able bit stream but some issues not yet resolved.
As it this helps a little on a couple of clips but hurts on most as
the basis for segmentation is unsound.
To build and test, configure with
--enable-experimental --enable-segfeatures
Change-Id: I22a60774f69273523fb152db8c31f4b10b07c7f4
Patch 1 to Patch 3 is an initial implementation of 8x8 intra prediction
modes, here are with the following assumptions:
a. 8x8 has 4 prediction modes DC, H, V and TM
b. UV 4x4 block use the same mode as corresponding 8x8 area
c. i8x8 modes are enabled for key frame only for now
Patch 4:
d. removed debug code from previous patches
Patch 5:
e. added stats code to collect entropy stats and further cleaned up
Patch 6:
f. changed mode stats code to collect finer stats of modes
Patch 7:
g. normalized i8x8 modes distribution to total at 256 (8bits).
Patch 8:
h. fixed a bug in decoder and removed debug printf output.
Patch 9:
i. more cleanups to address paul's comment
Patch 10:
j. messy rebase/merges to bring the commit up to date.
Tests on HD clips encoded with all key frame showing consistent gain
on all clips and all metrics:~0.5%(psnr) and 0.6%(ssim):
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/i8x8hd_allkey_fixedq.html
To build and test, configure with:
--enable-experimental --enable-i8x8
Change-Id: I9813fe07ae48cab5fdb5d904bca022514ad01e7f
Some basic plumbing added for a range of segment level features.
MB_LVL_* changed to SEG_LVL_* to better reflect meaning.
Change-Id: Iac96da36990aa0e40afc0d86e990df337fd0c50b
This change makes sure that no key frame recoding in real-time mode
even if CONFIG_REALTIME_ONLY is not configured.
Change-Id: Ifc34141f3217a6bb63cc087d78b111fadb35eec2
When active map is specified and the current frame is not a key frame,
golden frame nor a altref frame then copy only those active regions.
This significantly reduces encoding time by as much as 19% on the test
system where realtime encoding is used. This is particularly useful
when the frame size is large (e.g. 2560x1600) and there's only a few
action macroblocks.
Change-Id: If394a813ec2df5a0201745d1348dbde4278f7ad4
This reverts commit b5ea2fbc2c1554769848774c836aad262af95072. Further
testing showed noticable keyframe popping in some cases, reverting this
for now to give time for a proper fix.
Conflicts:
vp8/encoder/onyx_if.c
vp8/encoder/ratectrl.c
Change-Id: I159f53d1bf0e24c035754ab3ded8ccfd58fd04af
This patch fixes a bug in the interaction between the recode loop and
spatial resampling. If the codec was in a spatial resampling state,
and a subsequent iteration of the recode loop disables resampling,
then the source buffer must be reset to the unscaled source.
Change-Id: I4e4cd47b943f6cd26a47449dc7f4255b38e27c77
sharpness was not recalculated in vp8cx_pick_filter_level_fast
remove last_filter_type. all values are calculated, don't need to update
the lfi data when it changes.
always use cm->sharpness_level. the extra indirection was annoying.
don't track last frame_type or sharpness_level manually. frame type
only matters for motion search and sharpness_level is taken care of in
frame_init
move function declarations to their proper header
Change-Id: I7ef037bd4bf8cf5e37d2d36bd03b5e22a2ad91db
In sub-pixel motion search, the search range is small(+/- 3 pixels).
Preload whole search area from reference buffer into a 32-byte
aligned buffer. Then in search, load reference data from this buffer
instead. This keeps data in cache, and reduces the crossing cache-
line penalty. For tulip clip, tests on Intel Core2 Quad machine(linux)
showed encoder speed improvement:
3.4% at --rt --cpu-used =-4
2.8% at --rt --cpu-used =-3
2.3% at --rt --cpu-used =-2
2.2% at --rt --cpu-used =-1
Test on Atom notebook showed only 1.1% speed improvement(speed=-4).
Test on Xeon machine also showed less improvement, since unaligned
data access latency is greatly reduced in newer cores.
Next, I will apply similar idea to other 2 sub-pixel search functions
for encoding speed > 4.
Make this change exclusively for x86 platforms.
Change-Id: Ia7bb9f56169eac0f01009fe2b2f2ab5b61d2eb2f
With this fix, the experimental branch now builds and encodes correctly
with the following two configure options respectively:
--enable-experimental --enable-t8x8
--enable-experimental
Change-Id: I3147c33c503fe713a85fd371e4f1a974805778bf
This is done by expanding luma row to 32-byte alignment, since
there is currently a bunch of code that assumes that
uv_stride == y_stride/2 (see, for example, vp8/common/postproc.c,
common/reconinter.c, common/arm/neon/recon16x16mb_neon.asm,
encoder/temporal_filter.c, and possibly others; I haven't done a
full audit).
It also uses replaces the hardcoded border of 16 in a number of
encoder buffers with VP8BORDERINPIXELS (currently 32), as the
chroma rows start at an offset of border/2.
Together, these two changes have the nice advantage that simply
dumping the frame memory as a contiguous blob produces a valid,
if padded, image.
Change-Id: Iaf5ea722ae5c82d5daa50f6e2dade9de753f1003
This patch attempts to improve the handling of CBR streams with
respect to the short term buffering requirements. The "buffer level"
is changed to be an average over the rc buffer, rather than a long
running average. Overshoot is also tracked over the same interval
and the golden frame targets suppressed accordingly to correct for
overly aggressive boosting.
Testing shows that this is fairly consistently positive in one
metric or another -- some clips that show significant decreases
in quality have better buffering characteristics, others show
improvenents in both.
Change-Id: I924c89aa9bdb210271f2e03311e63de3f1f8f920
