Adds a fast diamond search which is about 5% faster than FAST_HEX
with only a 0.1% drop in psnr when turned on for both speeds 5 and 7.
This search is turned on for speed 7.
Change-Id: I497630aa88a5148926086bb3038e7975e5f4eb98
The core motion estimation fucntions all return sad now consistently.
The only exception is vp9_full_pixel_diamond(), however the core diamond
and refining search routines called from vp9_full_pixel_diamond() also
return SAD. If variance of pred error + mv cost is desired it must be
calculated explicitly outside these functions. For very fast encoding,
hopefully this will eliminate some redundant computations.
Also suggests reimplementing FAST_HEX with the vp9_pattern_search
framework. It is not exactly the same as the existing FAST_HEX, but
performance is slightly better and speed is very similar. Enables
removing a lot of duplicate code.
Change-Id: I152736393438c25bdf7e96b37cbb8ce330f4f94a
In good quality mode motion search, the best matches are normally
found after searching in a large area. In real time mode, to make
encoding fast, a center-biased fast HEX search is used, which
converges quickly most of the time. A 4-point diamond search is
also carried out as the following refining search, which gives more
precise results, and maintains good motion search quality.
At speed 5, the borg test on rtc set showed an overall PSNR loss of
0.936%. The encoding speed gain is 4% - 5%.
Change-Id: I42cd68bb56a09ca1b86293c99d5f7312225ca7ae
This commit explicitly enforces the effective motion vector range
in the motion search stage. The range needs to be the intersection
of UMV border, effective absolute motion vector value range, and
the target search area.
Change-Id: I1cf7c563e02b1086040dad6c1f4f6be1538635a6
Add a full range motion search for regular block sizes. This runs
exhaustive search within the given reference area. This commit further
optimizes the search process by combining 4 points test into one
pipeline, which gives 30% speed-up as compared to run each individual
point at a time.
This full range search serves as a best possible motion search reference.
When replacing the diamond search with full range search, the speed 0
runtime of bus CIF at 2000 kbps goes from 153872ms to 623051ms. The
compression performance compared to speed 0 setting gains 0.585% for
derf set.
Change-Id: Ieef1225216b0b86b4ac4872fa7fb9e18bf2eabb3
Explicitly constrain the upper limit of motion search range (in the
unit of full pixel) to be [-1023, +1023]. It is intended to control
the effective motion search range for 4K sequences.
Change-Id: I645539c70885eec0f155781f439d97d333336e88
