Adds a per-frame, strength adjustable, in loop deringing filter. Uses
the existing vp9_post_proc_down_and_across 5 tap thresholded blur
code, with a brute force search for the threshold.
Results almost strictly positive on the YT HD set, either having no
effect or helping PSNR in the range of 1-3% (overall average 0.8%).
Results more mixed for the CIF set, (-0.5 min, 1.4 max, 0.1 avg).
This has an almost strictly negative impact to SSIM, so examining a
different filter or a more balanced search heuristic is in order.
Other test set results pending.
Change-Id: I5ca6ee8fe292dfa3f2eab7f65332423fa1710b58
Replaces the default tables for single coefficient magnitudes with
those obtained from an appropriate distribution. The EOB node
is left unchanged. The model is represeted as a 256-size codebook
where the index corresponds to the probability of the Zero or the
One node. Two variations are implemented corresponding to whether
the Zero node or the One-node is used as the peg. The main advantage
is that the default prob tables will become considerably smaller and
manageable. Besides there is substantially less risk of over-fitting
for a training set.
Various distributions are tried and the one that gives the best
results is the family of Generalized Gaussian distributions with
shape parameter 0.75. The results are within about 0.2% of fully
trained tables for the Zero peg variant, and within 0.1% of the
One peg variant.
The forward updates are optionally (controlled by a macro)
model-based, i.e. restricted to only convey probabilities from the
codebook. Backward updates can also be optionally (controlled by
another macro) model-based, but is turned off by default. Currently
model-based forward updates work about the same as unconstrained
updates, but there is a drop in performance with backward-updates
being model based.
The model based approach also allows the probabilities for the key
frames to be adjusted from the defaults based on the base_qindex of
the frame. Currently the adjustment function is a placeholder that
adjusts the prob of EOB and Zero node from the nominal one at higher
quality (lower qindex) or lower quality (higher qindex) ends of the
range. The rest of the probabilities are then derived based on the
model from the adjusted prob of zero.
Change-Id: Iae050f3cbcc6d8b3f204e8dc395ae47b3b2192c9
As things stand the zero bin mode boost is hurting somewhat.
In part this seems to be because the boost applied as is
interferes with the rd mode selection loop.
Average gains (derf 0.072, yt 0.243, ythd 0.179 std-hd 0.212%)
Change-Id: Icaecea3908d9a7352370e49b8fa822f2c2c49dc1
Renaming Width to width, Height to height and Version to version in
several structs and function signatures.
Change-Id: I084c3f7e747cb2ce3345aff27a3dff9b13a87543
If the intended display size is different than the size the frame is
coded at, then send that size explicitly in the bitstream. Adds a new
bit to the frame header to indicate whether the extra size fields
are present.
Change-Id: I525c66f22d207efaf1e5f903c6a2a91b80245854
Adjust the filter length and strength for each
ARF group based on a measure of difficulty (the boost)
and the active q range.
Remove lower limit on RDMULT value.
Average gains on the different sets in range 0.4%-0.9%.
However the ARNR changes give a very big boost on a
few clips.
Eg. Soccer ~5%, in derf set and Cyclist ~ 10% in the std-hd set
Change-Id: I2078d78798e27ad2bcc2b32d703ea37b67412ec4
Updates the YV12_BUFFER_CONFIG structure to be crop-aware. The
exiting width/height parameters are left unchanged, storing the
width and height algined to a 16 byte boundary. The cropped
dimensions are added as new fields.
This fixes a nasty visual pulse when switching between scaled and
unscaled frame dimensions due to a mismatch between the scaling
ratio and the 16-byte aligned sizes.
Change-Id: Id4a3f6aea6b9b9ae38bdfa1b87b7eb2cfcdd57b6
This is like VP8_COPY_REFERENCE, but returns a pointer to the reference
frame rather than a copy of it. This is useful when the application
doesn't know what the size of the reference is, as is the case when
scaling is in effect.
Change-Id: I63667109f65510364d0e397ebe56217140772085
When coding the frame that corresponds to the midpoint frame
defining an ARF, do not update the last reference frame buffer.
Previously this buffer was updated meaning that when coding the next
ARF all the reference buffers were the same (or nearly so).
Turning the update off means that the frame before is still available
as an alternative predictor and for use in compound prediction.
Also fixed inconsistency in test for mismatch (patch from JK).
Net average gains (derf 0.049, yt 0.163, yt-hd 0.207, std-hd 0.286)
Change-Id: Ifee21da21ccbb1648ac2eafe890d3ce60562c7bc
This patch puts in an adjustment to the maximum gf/arf
interval based on the active q range. It sets a fixed
baseline maximum of 16 but can drop this down to 12 at
lower q. This required some re-ordering in the first pass
code to insure we have a Q range estimate before defining
the first gf sequence.
The main gains seed are int he STD hd set on 50fps clips
where previously the interval could rise as high as 25.
On the std hd clip the gains are around 2.8% with limit set
to 300 frames.
When combined with the one shot rate control flags we get
combined of:
derf 1.55% (limit300), yt 7.25%, hd 5.17% std-hd 5.84% (limit300)
Change-Id: Ib380d51354511f2ff0f171a8df4e74291c0421f9
Adds probability updates for extra bits for the nzcs, code for
getting nzc stats, plus some minor cleanups and fixes.
Change-Id: If2814e7f04fb52f5025ad9f400f3e6c50a00b543
This patch revamps the entropy coding of coefficients to code first
a non-zero count per coded block and correspondingly remove the EOB
token from the token set.
STATUS:
Main encode/decode code achieving encode/decode sync - done.
Forward and backward probability updates to the nzcs - done.
Rd costing updates for nzcs - done.
Note: The dynamic progrmaming apporach used in trellis quantization
is not exactly compatible with nzcs. A suboptimal approach has been
used instead where branch costs are updated to account for changes
in the nzcs.
TODO:
Training the default probs/counts for nzcs
Change-Id: I951bc1e22f47885077a7453a09b0493daa77883d
Added a variant of the one shot maxQ flag
for two pass that forces a fixed Q for the
normal inter frames. Disabled by default.
Also small adjustment to the Bits per MB
estimation.
Change-Id: I87efdfb2d094fe1340ca9ddae37470d7b278c8b8
A 'superframe' is a group of frames that share the same PTS, but have a
defined decoding order. This commit adds the ability to append an index
to such a group of frames, allowing for random access to the constituent
frames. This could be useful for frame-level parallelism or partial
decoding in a multilayer scenario.
Decoding the stream serially without such an index should work as a
fallback, and VP9/TestSuperframeIndexIsOptional verifies that.
Change-Id: Idff83b7560e1a7077d8fb067bfbc45b567e78b1c
Fixed a couple of variable/function definitions, as well as header
handling to support 16K sequence coding at high bit-rates.
The width and height are each specified by two bytes in the header.
Use an extra byte to explicitly indicate the scaling factors in
both directions, each ranging from 0 to 15.
Tested coding up to 16400x16400 dimension.
Change-Id: Ibc2225c6036620270f2c0cf5172d1760aaec10ec
The width and height stored in the reference frames are padded out to
a multiple of 16. The Width and Height variables in common are the
displayed size, which may be smaller. The incorrect comparison was
causing scaling related code to be called when it shouldn't have
been. A notable case where this happens is 1080p, since 1088 != 1080.
Change-Id: I55f743eeeeaefbf2e777e193bc9a77ff726e16b5
This function was part of an optimization used in VP8 that required
caching two macroblocks. This is unused in VP9, and might not
survive refactoring to support superblocks, so removing it for now.
Change-Id: I744e585206ccc1ef9a402665c33863fc9fb46f0d
This patch makes the encoder's use of ref_frame_map and active_ref_idx
consistent with the decoder. ref_frame_map[] maps a reference buffer
index to its actual location in the yv12_fb array, since many
references may share an underlying buffer. active_ref_idx[] mirrors
cpi->{lst,gld,alt}_fb_idx, holding the active references in each
slot.
This also fixes a bug in setup_buffer_inter() where the incorrect
reference was used to populate the scaling factors.
Change-Id: Id3728f6d77cffcd27c248903bf51f9c3e594287e
Fixes a bug in vp9_set_internal_size() that prevented returning to
the unscaled state. Updated the ResizeInternalTest to scale both
down and up. Added a check that all frames are within 2.5% of the
quality of the initial keyframe.
Change-Id: I3b7ef17cdac144ed05b9148dce6badfa75cff5c8
This patch extends the previous support for using references of a
different resolution in ZEROMV mode to all inter prediction modes.
Subpixel based best-mv scoring is disabled when the reference frame
differs in resolution from the current frame.
Change-Id: Id4dc3e5e6692de98d9857fd56bfad3ac57e944ac
This patch allows coding frames using references of different
resolution, in ZEROMV mode. For compound prediction, either
reference may be scaled.
To test, I use the resize_test and enable WRITE_RECON_BUFFER
in vp9_onyxd_if.c. It's also useful to apply this patch to
test/i420_video_source.h:
--- a/test/i420_video_source.h
+++ b/test/i420_video_source.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class I420VideoSource : public VideoSource {
virtual void FillFrame() {
// Read a frame from input_file.
+ if (frame_ != 3)
if (fread(img_->img_data, raw_sz_, 1, input_file_) == 0) {
limit_ = frame_;
}
This forces the frame that the resolution changes on to be coded
with no motion, only scaling, and improves the quality of the
result.
Change-Id: I1ee75d19a437ff801192f767fd02a36bcbd1d496
Some minor refactoring code relating to estimates of
bits per MB at a given Q and estimating the allowed Q range.
Most of the changes here were included in a previous commit.
This commit seeks to separate out the refactoring from more
the material changes.
Two #define control flags have been added for experimentation.
ONE_SHOT_Q_ESTIMATE force the two pass encoder to
use its initial Q range estimate for the whole clip even if this results
in a miss on the target data rate. In effect this tightens the Q range
seen at the expense of rate control accuracy.
DISABLE_RC_LONG_TERM_MEM is a related flag that disables the
long term memory in the rate control. Local adjustments are still
made to try and better hit the rate target on a per frame basis but
the impact of rate control misses is not propagated to the remainder
of the clip. This means that for example an overshoot early on will not
cause frames later in the clip to be starved of bits. Again the result
of this relaxation amy be less rate control accuracy especially on short
clips.
The flags are disabled by default for now.
Change-Id: I7482f980146d8ea033b5d50cc689f772e4bd119e
The over quant code was added in VP8 post
bitstream freeze to allow compression to lower
data rates
In VP9 the real qualtizer range has been greatly
extended anyway.
Change-Id: I5d384fa5e9a83ef75a3df34ee30627bd21901526
The issue that potentially broke the encoding process was due to the fact
that the length of token link is calculated from the total number of tokens
coded, while it is possible, in high bit-rate setting, this length is
greater than the buffer length initially assigned to the cpi->tok.
This patch increases the initially allocated buffer length assigned to
cpi->tok from
(mb_rows * mb_cols * 24 * 16) to (mb_rows * mb_cols * (1 + 24 * 16)).
It resolves the buffer overflow problem.
Change-Id: I8661a8d39ea0a3c24303e3f71a170787a1d5b1df
