For aq-mode=3: refactor the condition for turning off
the refresh. Add some adjustments for high motion content.
No/little change in RTC metrics, only affects high motion case.
Change-Id: I7da8eabfb0e61db014be4562806f72ee5ef4a43b
When temporal layers are used, only allow for copy partition
on the top temporal enhancement layer frames.
Change-Id: I5472abdc0f9f6c8dafa75a7a84c615e08ae22af8
Only affects speed 8.
Make changes to copy partition to fix a bug in setting microblock
offset. Avg PSNR shows 0.02% gain on rtc_derf and 0.08% loss on rtc.
Change-Id: I61c3e5914dde645331344388e7437e5638acd4f3
The modified error was a derivative of the "coded_error"
that was used to allocate bits between different frames on the
assumption that the allocation should be linear in terms of this
modified error. I.e. a frame with double the modified error score
should all things being equal get double the number of bits. The
code also included upper and lower caps derived from input
VBR parameters.
This patch improves the initial calculation of the clip mean error
(now called "mean_mod_score" as it is no longer a prediction error)
used as the midpoint for the rate distribution function and normalizes
the output "modified scores" scores such that 1.0 indicates a frame
in the middle of the distribution. The VBR upper and lower caps are
then applied directly to a frame's normalized score.
This refactoring is intended to make it easier to drop in alternative
distribution functions or to base the rate allocation on a corpus wide
midpoint (rather than the clip mean).
Change-Id: I4fb09de637e93566bfc4e022b2e7d04660817195
Most existing first pass stats are stored in a form normalized to a
macro-block scale. However the error scores for intra / inter etc were
stored as frame level values but mainly used as MB level values.
This change fixes that. Normalized per MB values make comparisons
between different formats easier and in any case this is usually what is
wanted.
An change in results should be limited to slight differences in rounding.
*** Change after patch 8 +2 requiring new approval.
Final pre-submit testing showed one 4K clip with above expected change.
Investigation showed this was due to a value used to test for ultra low intra
complexity in key frame detection. This was a per frame not per MB value but
also did not scale with frame size. Replacement with a small per MB value
(based on original per frame value and cif frame size) resolved the KF detection
problem.
Also converted kf_group_error_left to a double in line with other error values
to reduce rounding problems in KF group bit allocation
All clips and sets now show nominal (or 0) change as expected.
Change-Id: Ic2d57980398c99ade2b7380e3e6ca6b32186901f
Move the tran_low_t helper functions to a new file. Additional
load/store functions will be added here.
Change-Id: I52bf652c344c585ea2f3e1230886be93f5caefc3
Increase the partition and acskip thresholds for temporal
enhancement layers.
~1-2% speedup, with negligible loss in quality.
Change-Id: Id527398a05855298ad9ddac10ada972482415627
For SVC 1 pass non-rd pickmode, the interpolation filter for the
upsampling of the golden (spatial) reference was not being explicitly
set and instead was takin gwhatever value was set in the previous
mode/block (which would be either EIGHTTAP or EIGHTAP_SMOOTH).
Fix it to the default EIGHTTAP for now, to be updated/selected
adaptively in a later change.
Minor adjustmemt to rate targeting thresholds in datarate unittests.
Change-Id: I52085048674072c6cfb7163e11e9a2658d773826
A more detailed explanation of the experimentation
leading to this change can be found in:-
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/13lsYhxgPyxUHvEess6wg9nikaonIZKY9Ak_Lpafv5Mo/edit?usp=sharing
This change gives gains across all our standard test sets for
overall psnr, ssim, fast ssim and psnr-HVS.
Values expressed as % reduction in bitrate.
Low res set -0.257, -0.192, -0.173, -0.101
Mid res set -0.233, -0.336, -0.367, -0.139
High res set -0.999, -1.039, -1.111, -0.567
NetFlix 2K set -0.734, -0.174, -0.389, -0.820
Netflix 4K set -0.814, -0.485, -0.796, -0.839
Change-Id: Ie981fb3c895c9dfcfc8682640d201a86375db5c8
Speed up for speed 0.
Reduce 10+% of encoding time for hdres in speed 0,
with less than 0.1% PSNR loss.
Compute total difference of previous and current frame context probability
model. If the diff is less than the threshold, skip recoding the frame.
Borg test (positive number means performance loss):
lowres midres hdres
PSNR: 0.030 0.032 0.065
Local speed test: bitrate set at 1200
blue_sky pedestrian rush_hour
Encoding time: -10.0% -16.5% -16.5%
Change-Id: I4e2d200ea3115d48b2c3e890143596b31b8ef9e9
When the noise estimate is forced off due to large motion,
reset the counter and set smaller window for next estimate.
Change-Id: Ifa4ec95396134173a00d48353ad52f1b6a40c217
Add option in SVC to set the filter type and phase for
the frame level downsampling filters.
For 3 spatial layers: set downsampling filter type to bilinear
and set phase to 8, for lowest spatial layer.
Change-Id: Id81f4b1ba93db19c1cd37b6a46d1281a2c61bc43
Base the condition on the resolution of the spatial layer.
And remove restriction on scaling factor.
Change-Id: Iad00177ce364279d85661654bff00ce7f48a672e
For lowest spatial layer, in 3 layer SVC, set the
downsampling filtertype to get averaging filter.
Needed for reducing aliasing on low-res layer,
small increase in overall encoder time.
Change-Id: Ia31460123bd91b72eca49b46dd924b9f226d4563
Adjust thresholds for noise estimation, for resolutions above VGA.
Tends to push cleaner/low noise clips to LowLow state.
No change in RTC metrics.
Change-Id: I739ca6b797d0a60ccd1c6c6a2775269b1f007e5e
Set noise level to kLowLow for high motion low res clips.
Change the normalization in noise metric for low res.
Reduce the initial time-window for all resolutions.
Change-Id: Iaed39dbb50b205cd9c735dc5b84822304fb01987
