Using EIGHTTAP and EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH seem sufficient.
Hard to see any visual gain from allowing EIGHTTAP_SHARP, and it is
rarely selected.
PSNR/SSIM metrics go up by ~0.18/0.14%.
Change-Id: I96fa0d98f9321b913e3ebcd464d4ff3c63018791
Create a new component, vpx_dsp, for code that can be shared
between codecs. Move the SAD code into the component.
This reduces the size of vpxenc/dec by 36k on x86_64 builds.
Change-Id: I73f837ddaecac6b350bf757af0cfe19c4ab9327a
Added the intra mode early termination in order to
speed up the mode search in non-rd case since we
started to include more intra modes in the search
list. Borg tests(rtc set) showed a 0.048% PSNR gain
and 0.061 SSIM gain. No speed change.
Change-Id: I6f255fe534dc50b736e6a66a726ad458eb9b4443
For non-rd mode (speed >=5): use mask based on prediction block size, and
(for non-screen content mode) allow for checking horiz and vert intra modes
for blocks sizes < 16x16.
Avg psnr/ssim metrics go up by about ~0.2%.
Only allowing H/V intra on block sizes below 16x16 for now, to keep
encoding time increase very small, and also when allowing H/V on 16x16 blocks,
metrics went down on a few clips which need to be further examined.
Change-Id: I8ae0bc8cb2a964f9709612c76c5661acaab1381e
Impose a limit on the rd auto partition search based on
the image format. Smaller formats require that the search
includes includes a smaller minimum block size.
This change is intended to mitigate the visual impact of
ringing in some problem clips, for smaller image formats.
Change-Id: Ie039e5f599ee079bbef5d272f3e40e2e27d8f97b
Remove one of the auto partition size cases.
This case can behaves badly in some types of animated content
and was only used for the rd encode path. A subsequent patch
will add additional checks to help further improve visual quality.
Change-Id: I0ebd8da3d45ab8501afa45d7959ced8c2d60ee4e
Previously limit on max interval set to 0.5 seconds.
Though this helped some low frame rate material it
appears to be a bit too aggressive for some 24 and 25 fps
content. This patch relaxes the limit to 0.75 seconds.
The patch also adds a new minimum interval variable
to replace the current hard wired value. This allows us
to impose a limit on the maximum number of primary
arfs per second for high frame rate (e.g. 50 & 60fps)
content. This is to address concerns regarding playback
performance on some platforms if there is a high base
frame rate and very frequent arfs.
Change-Id: I373e8b6b2a8ef522eced6c6d2cceb234ff763fcf
This patch reduced the BLOCK_8X8's intra_cost_penalty, which
allows 8x8 blocks to conduct intra mode search. Borg test
result(rtc set): 0.077% PSNR gain, 0.228% SSIM gain. No speed
changes.
Change-Id: Icfe90c4f6969de24bda8ecacbd3da50330bf22b2
Calculated cpi->vbp_threshold_sad from this frame's dequant value.
The encoding quality and speed didn't change much. Borg test
result: PSNR: -0.002%, SSIM: -0.003%.
Change-Id: I97c9826986f39582f29910d637d08a69c90afdee
The default golden frame interval was doubled. After encoding a
frame, the background motion was measured. If the motion was high,
the current frame was set as the golden frame. Currently, the
changes were applied only while aq-mode 3 was on.
Borg tests(rtc set) showed a 0.226% PSNR gain and 0.312% SSIM gain.
No speed changes.
Change-Id: Id1e2793cc5be37e8a9bacec1380af6f36182f9b1
For color sampling format other than 420, valid partion size in Y may
not work for UV plane. This commit adds validation of UV partition
size before select the partition choice.
This fixes a crash for real time encoding of 422 input.
Change-Id: I1fe3282accfd58625e8b5e6a4c8d2c84199751b6
(see I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6)
For the test clip used, the decoder performance improved by ~2%.
This is also an intermediate step towards adding back the
mode_info streams.
Change-Id: Idddc4a3f46e4180fbebddc156c4bbf177d5c2e0d
The existing test was triggering a lot of false positives on some types
of animated material with very plain backgrounds. These were triggering
code designed to catch key frames in letter box format clips.
This patch tightens up the criteria and imposes a minimum requirement
on the % blocks coded intra in the first pass and the ratio between the
% coded intra and the modified inter % after discounting neutral (flat)
blocks that are coded equally well either way.
On a particular problem animation clip this change eliminated a large
number of false positives including some cases where the old code
selected kf several times in a row. Marginal false negatives are less
damaging typically to compression and in the problem clip there are now
a couple of cases where "visual" scene cuts are ignored because of well
correlated content across the scene cut.
Replaced some magic numbers related to this with #defines and added
explanatory comments.
Change-Id: Ia3d304ac60eb7e4323e3817eaf83b4752cd63ecf
PSNR HVS is a human visual system weighted version of SNR that's
gained some popularity from academia and apparently better matches
MOS testing.
This code is borrowed from the Daala Project but uses our FDCT code.
Change-Id: Idd10fbc93129f7f4734946f6009f87d0f44cd2d7
When the tokenization is not taking effect, the tokenization
pointer remains unchanged. No need to re-assign the backup pointer
value.
Change-Id: I58fe1f6285aa3b4a88ceb864c11d5de8ac6235dd
This patch limits the maximum arf interval length to
approximately half a second. In some low fps animations in
particular the existing code was selecting an overly long interval
which was hurting visual quality. For a sample problem test clip
(360P animation , 15fps, ~200Kbit/s) this change also improved
metrics by >0.5 db.
There may be some clips where this hurts metrics a little, but the
worst case impact visually is likely to be less than having an
interval that is much too long. On more normal material at 24
fps or higher, the impact is likely to be nil/minimal.
Change-Id: Id8b57413931a670c861213ea91d7cc596375a297
Force split on 16x16 block (to 8x8) based on the minmax over the 8x8 sub-blocks.
Also increase variance threshold for 32x32, and add exit condiiton in choose_partition
(with very safe threshold) based on sad used to select reference frame.
Some visual improvement near moving boundaries.
Average gain in psnr/ssim: ~0.6%, some clips go up ~1 or 2%.
Encoding time increase (due to more 8x8 blocks) from ~1-4%, depending on clip.
Change-Id: I4759bb181251ac41517cd45e326ce2997dadb577
Modifies a special handling that improves rate control accuracy in
the constrained quality mode, when the undershoot and overshoot
limits are set tighter.
Change-Id: If62103f0ef3ed1cac92807400678c93da50cf046
the sse4 code expects 16-byte aligned arrays; vp8 already had a similar
change applied:
b2aa401 Align SAD output array to be 16-byte aligned
Change-Id: I5e902035e5a87e23309e151113f3c0d4a8372226
Skip redundant prediction filter type cost in filter search loop,
if the rate value will be reset in Hadamard transform based rate
distortion estimate.
Change-Id: Ie5221f4bc8da9461c449df367251aeeac52c6e5d
This commit turns on the Hadamard transform based rate distortion
estimate for all block sizes in RTC coding mode. It conditionally
skips the rate distortion estimation if all zero block flag is set
on. No significant encoding speed change is observed. The
compression performance of speed -6 is improved by 1.7% over using
it only for block sizes of 32x32 and below.
Change-Id: I768145e6f05c737b05b5b5f1ee674e929532cafb
The threshold scaling factor was calculated wrong using partition
size "bsize". Thank Yaowu for pointing it out. It was fixed and no
speed change was seen.
Change-Id: If7a5564456f0f68d6957df3bd2d1876bbb8dfd27
This commit accounts for the transform block end of coefficient flag
cost in the RTC mode decision process. This allows a more precise
rate estimate. It also turns on the model to block sizes up to 32x32.
The test sequences shows about 3% - 5% speed penalty for speed -6.
The average compression performance improvement for speed -6 is
1.58% in PSNR. The compression gains for hard clips like jimredvga,
mmmoving, and tacomascmv at low bit-rate range are 1.8%, 2.1%, and
3.2%, respectively.
Change-Id: Ic2ae211888e25a93979eac56b274c6e5ebcc21fb
The vbp thresholds are set seperately for boosted/non-boosted
superblocks according to their segment_id. This way we don't
have to force the boosted blocks to split to 32x32.
Speed 6 RTC set borg test result showed some quality gains.
Overall PSNR: +0.199%; Avg PSNR: +0.245%; SSIM: +0.802%.
No speed change was observed.
Change-Id: I37c6643a3e2da59c4b7dc10ebe05abc8abf4026a
This commit separates Hadamard transform/quantization operations
from rate and distortion computation in block_yrd. This allows one
to skip SATD computation when all transform blocks are quantized
to zero. It also uses a new block error function that skips
repeated computation of sum of squared residuals. It reduces the
CPU cycles spent on block error calculation in block_yrd by 40%.
Change-Id: I726acb2454b44af1c3bd95385abecac209959b10
This commit allows the quantizer to compare the AC coefficients to
the quantization step size to determine if further multiplication
operations are needed. It makes the quantization process 20% faster
without coding statistics change.
Change-Id: I735aaf6a9c0874c82175bb565b20e131464db64a
For large partition blocks(block_size > 32x32), the variance
calculation is modified so that every 8x8 block's variance
is stored during the calculation, which is used in the
following transform skipping test. Also, the variance for
every tx block is calculated. The skipping test checks all tx
blocks in the partition, and sets the skip flag only if all tx
blocks are skippable. If the skip flag of Y plane is 1, a
quick evaluation is done on UV planes. If the current partition
block is skippable in YUV planes, the mode search checks fewer
inter modes and doesn't check intra modes.
The rtc set borg test(at speed 6) showed that:
Overall psnr: -0.527%; Avg psnr: -0.510%; ssim: -0.573%.
Average single-thread speedup on rtc set was 3.5%.
For 720p clips, more speedups were seen.
gipsrecmotion: 13%
gipsrestat: 12%
vidyo: 5 - 9%
dark: 15%
niklas: 6%
Change-Id: I8d8ebec0cb305f1de016516400bf007c3042666e
This commit allows the encoder to check the eob per transform
block to decide how to compute the SATD rate cost. If the entire
block is quantized to zero, there is no need to add anything; if
only the DC coefficient is non-zero, add its absolute value;
otherwise, sum over the block. This reduces the CPU cycles spent
on vp9_satd_sse2 to one third.
Change-Id: I0d56044b793b286efc0875fafc0b8bf2d2047e32
When the estimated rate-distortion cost of skip coding mode is
lower than that of sending quantized coefficients, allow the
encoder to drop these coefficients. This improves the compression
performance of speed -6 by 0.268% and makes the encoding speed
slightly faster.
Change-Id: Idff2d7ba59f27ead33dd5a0e9f68746ed3c2ab68
This commit fixes the SSE2 version 8x8 Hadamard transform
alignment and makes it consistent with the C version.
Change-Id: I1304e5f97e0e5ef2d798fe38081609c39f5bfe74
This commit replaces the 16x16 2D-DCT transform with Hadamard
transform for RTC coding mode. It reduces the CPU cycles cost
on 16x16 transform by 5X. Overall it makes the speed -6 encoding
speed 1.5% faster without compromise on compression performance.
Change-Id: If6c993831dc4c678d841edc804ff395ed37f2a1b
This commit makes the encoder to select between SATD/variance as
metric for mode decision. It also allows to account chroma
component costs for mode decision as well. The overall encoding
time increase as compared to variance based mode selection is about
15% for speed -6. The compression performance is on average 2.2%
better than variance based approach, with about 5% compression
performance gains for hard clips (e.g., jimredvga, nikas720p, and
mmmoving) at lower bit-rate range.
Change-Id: I4d04a31d36f4fcb3f5f491dacd6e7fe44cb9d815
This commit uses Hadamard transform based rate-distortion cost
estimate for rtc coding mode decision. It improves the compression
performance of speed -6 for many hard clips at lower bit-rates.
For example, 5.5% for jimredvga, 6.7% for mmmoving, 6.1% for
niklas720p. This will introduce extra encoding cycle costs at
this point.
Change-Id: Iaf70634fa2417a705ee29f2456175b981db3d375
Metrics on RTC set go down by ~1.5% on average.
Key frame encoding time goes down by factor of ~5.
Change-Id: Ia83acc55848613870e5ac6efe7f3d904d877febb
To enable us to the scale-invariant motion estimation
code during mode selection, each of the reference
buffers is scaled to match the size of the frame
being encoded.
This fix ensures that a unit scaling factor is used in
this case rather than the one calculated assuming that
the reference frame is not scaled.
Change-Id: Id9a5c85dad402f3a7cc7ea9f30f204edad080ebf
Set the GF group adaptive max Q compile flag to 1 by default.
This change has a quite big visual impact in some clips and also
contributes to tighter rate control.
For short test clips that have consistent content the impact is
quite small on metrics but for more varied long form clips there is
a drop in overal psnr but a sharp rise in average psnr caused by
greater expenditure on some easier sections and tighter rate clipping
in hard sections.
In chunck'ed encodes some of the effect will already be present due
to the independent rate control in each chunk but this change takes
the control down to a smaller scale.
yt hd +10.67%, - 3.77%, -1.56%
yt +9.654%, - 3.6%, - 1.82%
std hd +0.25%, -0.85%, -0.42%
derf +0.25%, - 1.1%. - 0.87%
Change-Id: Ibbc39b800d99d053939f4c6712d715124082843e
1. skip near if it is same as nearest
2. correct rounding for converting mv to fullpel position
3. update pred_mv_sad after new mv search.
Overall .1%~.25% compression gains on rtc set for speed 5, 6, 7, 8.
Change-Id: Ic300ca53f7da18073771f1bb993c58cde9deee89
Revised adjustment for rd based on source complexity.
Two cases:
1) Bias against low variance intra predictors
when the actual source variance is higher.
2) When the source variance is very low to give a slight
bias against predictors that might introduce false texture
or features.
The impact on metrics of this change across the test sets is
small and mixed.
derf -0.073%, -0.049%, -0.291%
std hd -0.093%, -0.1%, -0.557%
yt +0.186%, +0.04%, - 0.074%
ythd +0.625%, + 0.563%, +0.584%
Medium to strong psycho-visual improvements in some
problem clips.
This feature and intra weight on GF group length now
turned on by default.
Change-Id: Idefc8b633a7b7bc56c42dbe19f6b2f872d73851e
This experiment biases the rd decision based on the impact
a mode decision has on the relative spatial complexity of the
reconstruction vs the source.
The aim is to better retain a semblance of texture even if it
is slightly misaligned / wrong, rather than use a simple rd
measure that tends to favor use of a flat predictor if a perfect
match can't be found.
This improves the appearance of texture and visual quality
on specific test clips but is hidden under a flag and currently
off by default pending visual quality testing on a wider Yt set.
Change-Id: Idf6e754a8949bf39ed9d314c6f2daaa20c888aad
The joint_motion_search function alternates prediction
between two reference frames. In order to reuse existing
code, a pointer to the appropriate reference frame is
written into xd->plane[0].pre[0], that the motion
estimation code assumes points to the reference frame.
If this first reference frame was scaled then the
pointer was incorrectly being reset to point to the
unscaled reference frame rather than the scaled
version.
Change-Id: I76f73a8d8f4f15c1f3a5e7e08a35140cdb7886ab
Factor in segment#2 and skip blocks into the postencode estimated bits,
and increase somewhat the aggressiveness of the refresh.
PSNR/SSIM Metrics on RTC set go up by ~0.8/0.5%.
Change-Id: I5d4e7cb00a3aefb25d18c88b6b24118b72dc5d51
This commit makes the encoder to explicitly calculate the SAD
associated with the LAST_FRAME motion vector and compare it to
that of the GOLDEN_FRAME given by integral projection motion
estimation. It skips the expensive sub-pixel motion search over
GOLDEN_FRAME when the LAST_FRAME can provide fairly good motion
compensated prediction quality.
For dark720p speed -6 single thread goes from
33304 b/f, 40.070 dB, 18156 ms ->
33319 b/f, 40.061 dB, 17611 ms
Change-Id: I01bc94b9b598075567a392111046b97a9bc30efe
Use force_split to constrain the partition selection.
This is used because in the top-down approach to variance partition,
a block size may be selected even though one of its subblocks may have
high variance.
In this patch the selection of the 64x64 block size will only
be allowed if the variance of all the 32x32 subblocks are also below the threshold.
Stil testing, but some visual improvement for areas near slow moving boundary
can be seen. Metrics for RTC set increase by about ~0.5%.
Change-Id: Iab3e7b19bf70f534236f7a43fd873895a2bb261d
Shut off all the metric checks for golden reference frame, if we
decide that it is unlikely to be selected for reference.
Change-Id: Ie457cc1fd43935584403b4982659aed80fb9909c
Move the scaling factor outside column projection. This avoids
repeated calculation of the same scaling factor. Profiling shows
that the percentage of vp9_int_pro_col_sse2 of overall cycles
goes from 2.29% down to 1.88%.
Change-Id: I5ac4e324ab2d7f33ba2de66dd2a12e04e04dfd66
1. remove duplicate initialization to mbmi->interp_filter.
2. move mv clamping into ref_frame loop instead of mode checking loop.
3. move the check if last frame is same as golden frame earlier to
avoid initialization of Golden reference related variables.
Change-Id: Idf2d05e19e94a24f69cc289687869fc71d2ff289
The compression performance of speed -5 is on average 12.6% better
than speed -6. At lower bit-rates, the gains are typically 20% or
more. For 2-thread encoding, the speed -5 takes about 1.6x time of
speed -6.
Change-Id: If7a73464a24d33e8f49b9533b51ec51c8da7fc80
Crash occured on very first key frame, because denoiser
temporal function was beng entered.
Updated denoiser unittest to set cpu_used from first frame,
and verified fix fixes the crash.
Change-Id: I3be1124b52846fbbe7248d2c3d6136e086c80bc1
This commit uses a 6-point 1-step refine motion search in the
integral projection based full pixel motion estimation, to replace
the current 9-point search.
It reduces runtime cost of speed -6 on some noisy clips, e.g.,
dark720p single thread
33314 b/f, 40.076 dB, 18231 ms ->
33307 b/f, 40.067 dB, 17768 ms
The compression performance for rtc set remains unchanged.
Change-Id: I194ea5a9ce52e5a10baeee36338633adc22f764c
This commit changes to use single loop to evaluate all inter modes.
There is no impact on compression quality and speed, but allow future
experiment with the order of modes evaluated.
Change-Id: I71696ce1014cbe127e25e98710d835987f5ecc09
Added a skip_dc check. If skip_dc = 1, we could eliminate calling
of vp9_model_rd_from_var_lapndz(). This gave slight PSNR & SSIM
gain(<0.1%), and no speed change.
Change-Id: If5ca733366148c86b98e196a00cc890f50e9a3e5
Re-arrange the multiplication and right shift operations to avoid
integer overflow in choose_partitioning.
Change-Id: Ib4005cafb410a67c1960486471d75b6ebe38c4e0
This commit removes the pred_mv_sad comparison from rtc motion
search, given that a stronger comparison has been done at the
mode search level to eliminate unlikely selected reference frames.
Change-Id: I49b8d24b2174303066fd8eff2102c0648f2869df
This commit enables the rtc coding mode to run integral projection
based motion search for golden reference frame. It improves the
speed -6 compression performance by 1.1% on average, 3.46% for
jimred_vga, 6.46% for tacomascmvvga, and 0.5% for vidyo clips. The
speed -6 is about 6% slower.
Change-Id: I0fe402ad2edf0149d0349ad304ab9b2abdf0c804
Make the vp9_int_pro_motion_estimation() function return zero
motion vector if high bit depth is turned on, instead of removing
it from compiled codes.
Change-Id: Ia48f010eb590b2d517d5678c394110b326a1a95e
This patch accounts in the first pass stats for blocks that
while not coded as intra, are complex and have an intra error /
best error ratio below a threshold.
The modification shortens the GF arf interval for a particular
class of content that contains a lot of blocks matching the
above criteria. (In one short problem test sequence the average
interval dropped from about 14-15 to 10-11)
The change results in small net gains in metrics results for the
Yt(~0.2%) and yt-hd (~0.5%) sets and is approximately neutral
for the other test sets.
The change is currently shielded by a flag and off by default
pending verification that it does not cause other regressions
in tests on a wider YT test set.
Change-Id: I6b803daa6a4ac09a6f428fb3a18be1ecedd974b7
Only update the rd_thresh factors for modes sharing same reference
frame. This helps overall compression of 6 and 7 by .13% and .19%
respectively without any noticeable speed difference.
Change-Id: Idb3a3879512c5d7d0880034516079949290690c5
For non-SVC 1 pass CBR: make the GF update interval a multiple of the
cyclic refresh period, and use encoding stats to prevent GF update at certain times.
Change-Id: I4c44cacc2f70f1d27391a47644837e1eaa065017
The return value from vp9_compute_qdelta_by_rate, which is
a delta value for the quantizer, could never be 0 if
(qindex == rc->worst_quality).
This occurs because target_index was setup unconditionally
in the loop and yet the loop counter stopped at
(rc->worst_quality - 1).
Change-Id: I6b59cd9b5811ff33357e71cd7d814c5e53d291f2
Choose_partition uses only the last frame as reference frame in making
partition decision, this commit adds the check on how well Golden
frame with (0,0) predicts the current block, and uses GF(0,0) as
basis for partition decision if it produces better prediction.
The commit improves rtc speed 6 and 7 encoding by 0.14% and 0.19%
respectively.
Change-Id: I156acf925bd6e0b586d48155d1940d27270a3915
When golden reference frame is refreshed, the next frame has both
its last and golden reference frames point to the same reference
frame in real-time coding mode. Experiments suggest that using
two separate reference frames for frames right after golden refresh
frame does not provide further compression performance advantage.
This commit hence retains the current encoder implementation and
shuts off the mode search over golden reference frame in this case.
It makes the encoder run slightly faster at no coding performance
change.
Change-Id: I1561f7799253a10e675d05c63c1749fe9e85b472
Force 64x64 partitioning when a whole superblock is SEGMENT_LVL_SKIP. This
drops encode times of screens mostly at rest by 20%.
Change-Id: Ieba554b0b8a0c1679aae784a8bd11f038ab942c3
Adjustment previously only enabled in VBR mode.
This patch allows adjustment of min and max q for CBR
and adjustment of max q only for CQ mode.
Change-Id: Id5e583f3d50453cd544fc57249acacd946457482
While turning on "--aq_mode=3", the quantizers are updated by each
thread. Fixed the me consts initialization function to make sure
that the correct thread data are updated.
Change-Id: Ied27bb7bae76fc3fa2cda4f8c35ac0b46271bef4
While searching for the best mode in non-rd case, SSE of
a partition block is calculated and the transform size is set.
This patch rewrites the skip checking conditions based on
transform size instead of partition size to be more precise.
Small gains were seen in rtc set borg test (speed 6).
AVG PSNR: 0.087%, overall PSNR: 0.073%, SSIM: 0.146%.
No noticeable speed change.
Change-Id: I5603ca5339c784dfa02263f4005988ccd8c32f6e
It was tiny when it was orginally marked INLINE. Forcing this function
to be inlined prevents the compiler from inlining its much smaller
callers.
No measurable speed impact, 28320 byte smaller libvpx.a
Change-Id: I6bf4c917157d15cbadb3cd3e20a9e82d35dc7d6f
This saves an extra 64x64 variance calculation and replaces two
32x32 variance functions with sad functions. The compression
performance change is unnoticeable.
Change-Id: I6d33868695664ec73b56c42945162ae61c484856
Frame buffers are now allocated dynamically on-demand.
Entries in the reference frame map, cm->ref_frame_map,
may now be set to -1 (INVALID_IDX) to indicate that
there is not a valid reference buffer in that "slot".
All slots in the reference frame map are now initialized
to the empty state (-1) and each buffer is initialized
to have a reference count of 0.
Change-Id: Id1afe98de98db4ae8b2dfefed7889c3b28c68582
Use rectangular block size for integral projection motion estimation
if the the 64x64 block has over half block outside the frame. This
avoids the issue that the motion information of these blocks is
dominated by the extended pixels, instead of the pixels of interest.
Change-Id: I22f4d2bb7f6a20db9b3f5e2e5463a7f4b9d1b737
The rounding factor needs to be scaled down by a factor of 2.
Also, the quantized and dequantized coefficients are memset to 0
when dc quantizer is used.
Change-Id: Ifa68bab02addbf1b83d249c5b4cbd5cda796b1cf
Instead using only a fixed threshold, this commit adapts the threshold
for color sensitivity decision to luma signal energy: chroma channel's
sse is at least 1/6 of that in luma for color sensitivity flag to be
set to active.
This recoups a large portion of the speed loss due to accounting for
chroma component costs in RTC mode decision.
Change-Id: Ie01f747f6037dba6a1d1ed3e10b71a0ef1abc42c
This commit replaces the SAD with variance as metric for the
integral projection vector match. It improves the search accuracy
in the presence of slight light change. The average speed -6
compression performance for rtc set is improved by 1.7%. No speed
changes are observed for the test clips.
Change-Id: I71c1d27e42de2aa429fb3564e6549bba1c7d6d4d
This commit fixes an issue in source frame border extension. It
causes certain frame resolution such as 640x480 to have a portion
of the right/bottom extension filled by zeros, which misleads
motion search and degrades transform coding performance when large
block size is used.
This fix improves the speed 2 compression performance of a few
yt sequence, typically ranging from 1% - 2%, up to 5% at median
to low bit-rate.
Change-Id: Id6b09a5695d9e7651c6dfbc2c6a72288b08af7fb
This commit applies one-step refinement search to the resulting
motion vector of the integral projectiion based motion estimation,
per 64x64 block. It improves the coding performance of speed -6.
pedestrian 1080p 500 kbps
51735 b/f, 36.794 dB, 16044 ms ->
51382 b/f, 36.793 dB, 16282 ms
cloud 1080p 500 kbps
24081 b/f, 37.988 dB, 14016 ms ->
23597 b/f, 38.076 dB, 12774 ms
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
16552 b/f, 40.514 dB, 8279 ms ->
16553 b/f, 40.543 dB, 8510 ms
The rtc set compression performance is improved by 0.5%.
Change-Id: I3d09bea2caf58b2a4f3b38aa26fffafcbe9a2c17
This commit modifies the hierarchical vector match patter. It
avoids repeated SAD computation at same points. The function
vp9_vector_sad_sse2 is called 12 times per 64x64 block, instead
of 15 times as before. The effective coverage remains the same.
Change-Id: I91ad9d27d40db8963c907d02af84e10702136994
In ssse3 functions, DEFINE_ARGS macro hard codes qcoeff and dqcoeff
to r3 and r4. If skip is 1, qcoeff and dqcoeff need to be loaded
from the stack, which doesn't work because of the above definitions.
Currently, skip=1 case is not used in the encoder. This patch fixed
the issue, so it can be turned on later.
Change-Id: I998d696b1a7a85dca2b3bcee790b21c21e039147
When GF group adaptive maxQ is enabled this patch accounts
somewhat for accumulated error in the rate control.
This improves accuracy quite a bit on many clips especially
when there is overshoot.
Examples when the overshoot and undershoot command line
parameters are set to 100:
Hall @ 1200 overshoot is reduced from 67-24%.
Akiyo @ 400 undershoot is reduced from 28%-15%.
Setting a lower value for undershoot or overshoot still
reduces the error further.
Impact on metrics is mixed with some gains in average psnr
but generally a little lower (e.g. 0.5%) on overall and ssim.
The GF group adaptation is still off by default in this patch.
Compared to with the head, enabling this mode now gives
big average psnr gains on the YT sets (e.g. YT_HD >11.2%),
a drop in overall PSNR (YT-HD 3.9%) and a smaller drop or
neutral for SSIM.
Change-Id: If4b32cd0740d3fb941317b374f9c2951954eee90
Target higher delta-qp for big blocks with zero motion,
and for segment#1: avoid 64x64 partition size and force 8x8 tx size.
Metrics on RTC set mostly positive: SSIM up by ~4%, PSRN by ~1.5%.
Doesn't seem to be any change in speed.
Change-Id: I1f68fa3c4f62dab3b90cc58041f05ebb048ae5ac
Modified the thresholds of deciding whether or not to skip
the transforms in model_rd_for_sb_y(). Used zbin[] instead
of dequant[] to be more precise. Also, modified the checking
coditions.
Rtc set borg test results (at speed 6) showed:
average PSNR gain: 0.138%, overall PSNR gain: 0.158%,
and SSIM gain: 0.177%.
The data rate test was modified slightly as suggested by
Marco.
Change-Id: Ieaf633ab77f4838cb3c45cf69065b29d55f8ae6c
This commit introduces a new block match motion estimation
using integral projection measurement. The 2-D block and the nearby
region is projected onto the horizontal and vertical 1-D vectors,
respectively. It then runs vector match, instead of block match,
over the two separate 1-D vectors to locate the motion compensated
reference block.
This process is run per 64x64 block to align the reference before
choosing partitioning in speed 6. The overall CPU cycle cost due
to this additional 64x64 block match (SSE2 version) takes around 2%
at low bit-rate rtc speed 6. When strong motion activities exist in
the video sequence, it substantially improves the partition
selection accuracy, thereby achieving better compression performance
and lower CPU cycles.
The experiments were tested in RTC speed -6 setting:
cloud 1080p 500 kbps
17006 b/f, 37.086 dB, 5386 ms ->
16669 b/f, 37.970 dB, 5085 ms (>0.9dB gain and 6% faster)
pedestrian_area 1080p 500 kbps
53537 b/f, 36.771 dB, 18706 ms ->
51897 b/f, 36.792 dB, 18585 ms (4% bit-rate savings)
blue_sky 1080p 500 kbps
70214 b/f, 33.600 dB, 13979 ms ->
53885 b/f, 33.645 dB, 10878 ms (30% bit-rate savings, 25% faster)
jimred 400 kbps
13380 b/f, 36.014 dB, 5723 ms ->
13377 b/f, 36.087 dB, 5831 ms (2% bit-rate savings, 2% slower)
Change-Id: Iffdb6ea5b16b77016bfa3dd3904d284168ae649c
This commit prevent the encoder to update last_frame_type when a frame
is dropped in the encoder. Prior to this fix, if there is a dropped
frame immediatedly after a key frame, decoder would have the value of
last_frame_type as key frame, different from encoder as the dropped
frame in encoder would have updated the value to an inter frame. This
leads to different probability update in encoder and decoder, thereby
encoder/decoder mismatch.
This fixes issue #941
Change-Id: I27115224b138bec43ae3916c016574f5740822b0
Replaced a divide by 9 with 8, so some very small difference,
but otherwise no change in behavior.
Change-Id: I1079ae3c41e0789ff0bc6fa9940a238b6bca0f5b
Simple skin detection, from vp8; works reasonable on most of the
RTC clips, but could miss sometimes.
Added debug flag to write out skin map over source input.
Change-Id: I2caea7592f1c459047aac46627eeb24a94946464
This commit allows the encoder to properly account for the mode
cost in sub8x8 non-RD mode decision.
Change-Id: I2951960d20e37ed08e372ee0c7044935b2b9b899
Add the rate cost on inter prediction filter type to the overall
rate-distortion cost in vp9_pick_mode_inter.
Change-Id: I72c34017adf5220cadb3962694ee5404469fc673
This commit adds a heuristic rate cost of reference frame to the
non-RD mode decision. It improves the compression performance of
speed -6 by 0.31% and speed -5 by 0.69%.
Change-Id: If7f3b45519d49b2cb640bcb7316a254efc8be446
This is to avoid redo the same calculation repeatly, and also allow
easier adjustments for further experiments.
This commit shall have no effect on quality/compression.
Change-Id: I4460acf5c808ff5518da18d21e002c5da58af857
Note: This feature is still in development.
Add an option for the encoder to decide the resolution
at which to encode each frame.
Each KF/GF/ARF goup is tested to see if it would be
better encoded at a lower resolution. At present, each
KF/GF/ARF is coded first at full-size and if the coded
size exceeds a threshold (twice target data rate) at
the maximum active Q then the entire group is encoded
at lower resolution.
This feature is enabled in vpxenc by setting:
--resize-allowed=1
In addition, if the vpxenc command line also specifies
valid frame dimensions using:
--resize-width=XXXX & --resize_height=YYYY
then *all* frames will be encoded at this resolution.
Change-Id: I13f341e0a82512f9e84e144e0f3b5aed8a65402b
This commit fixes the sub block partition size used in
fill_mode_info_sb. Previous implementation effectively disabled
the rectangular block sizes. This commit resolved this issue.
Change-Id: Ic1c383ab0a9a2e7d59e85b388093f1f1f94d1e7f
This commit makes the ZEROMV mode first in the search order to
ensure that the zero mv is always checked in the RTC coding mode.
It improves the average speed -6 compression performance by 0.3%
in both PSNR and SSIM at no visible speed change.
Change-Id: I465a7e59f4e20cd84fee3f02ced6f98036945949
The high bit depth build failed while building for 32bit target.
The bugs were in vp9_highbd_subpel_variance.asm and
vp9_highbd_sad4d_sse2.asm functions. This patch fixed the bugs,
and made 32bit build work.
Change-Id: Idc8e5e1b7965bb70d4afba140c6583c5d9666b75
On rtc set:
speed 7 quality improves about 0.5%
speed 8 quality improves about 1.0%
Encoding time for speed 7 changes from 67804ms to 65889ms
Encoding time for speed 8 changes from 58659ms to 56808ms
Change-Id: Iabcfb53012fc1b9f3326cdbc167e5758b8c7ad30
Reuse the yv12_mb array to fetch the buffer pointers/strides
corresponding to the current reference frame.
Change-Id: I5276b7494158b2cccef15213be2dc189e9036851
This commit allows the encoder to account for additional chroma
plane costs in the mode decision process, if the current block
potentially contains significant color change. It improves the
visual quality at very low bit-rates.
The compression performance of dark720p is improved by 12.39% in
speed 6. For jimred at 150 kbps, the PSNR of V component (red)
increased by 0.2 dB, at the expense of about 5% increase in
encoding time. Note that for sequences where the chroma components
are fairly consistent, the encoding time increase is negligible.
On average the rtc set compression performance is improved by
1.172% in PSNR and 1.920% in SSIM.
Change-Id: Ia55b24ef23a25304f7ec9958fbf07fd6e658505c
The original implementation had the following comment:
// Ignore mv costing if mvsadcost is NULL
However the current implementation does not allow for this.
If x exists then nmvsadcost must not be null.
This removes the only warning from -Wpointer-bool-conversion
https://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=894
Change-Id: I1a2cee340d7972d41e1bbbe1ec8dfbe917667085
1. Adjusted the threshold for coef update computation based on counts
of tx used, avoid coef update computation when count is low (<20)
2. Move sf->lpf_pick = LPF_PICK_MINIMAL_LPF to speed 8.
Change-Id: I02b44309e40fcdbf135c7934ae067a3f42502d30
In frame parallel decode, libvpx decoder decodes several frames on all
cpus in parallel fashion. If not being flushed, it will only return frame
when all the cpus are busy. If getting flushed, it will return all the
frames in the decoder. Compare with current serial decode mode in which
libvpx decoder is idle between decode calls, libvpx decoder is busy
between decode calls.
Current frame parallel decode will only speed up the decoding for frame
parallel encoded videos. For non frame parallel encoded videos, frame
parallel decode is slower than serial decode due to lack of loopfilter
worker thread.
There are still some known issues that need to be addressed. For example:
decode frame parallel videos with segmentation enabled is not right sometimes.
* frame-parallel:
Add error handling for frame parallel decode and unit test for that.
Fix a bug in frame parallel decode and add a unit test for that.
Add two test vectors to test frame parallel decode.
Add key frame seeking to webmdec and webm_video_source.
Implement frame parallel decode for VP9.
Increase the thread test range to cover 5, 6, 7, 8 threads.
Fix a bug in adding frame parallel unit test.
Add VP9 frame-parallel unit test.
Manually pick "Make the api behavior conform to api spec." from master branch.
Move vp9_dec_build_inter_predictors_* to decoder folder.
Add segmentation map array for current and last frame segmentation.
Include the right header for VP9 worker thread.
Move vp9_thread.* to common.
ctrl_get_reference does not need user_priv.
Seperate the frame buffers from VP9 encoder/decoder structure.
Revert "Revert "Revert "Revert 3 patches from Hangyu to get Chrome to build:"""
Conflicts:
test/codec_factory.h
test/decode_test_driver.cc
test/decode_test_driver.h
test/invalid_file_test.cc
test/test-data.sha1
test/test.mk
test/test_vectors.cc
vp8/vp8_dx_iface.c
vp9/common/vp9_alloccommon.c
vp9/common/vp9_entropymode.c
vp9/common/vp9_loopfilter_thread.c
vp9/common/vp9_loopfilter_thread.h
vp9/common/vp9_mvref_common.c
vp9/common/vp9_onyxc_int.h
vp9/common/vp9_reconinter.c
vp9/decoder/vp9_decodeframe.c
vp9/decoder/vp9_decodeframe.h
vp9/decoder/vp9_decodemv.c
vp9/decoder/vp9_decoder.c
vp9/decoder/vp9_decoder.h
vp9/encoder/vp9_encoder.c
vp9/encoder/vp9_pickmode.c
vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c
vp9/vp9_cx_iface.c
vp9/vp9_dx_iface.c
This reverts commit a18da9760a.
Change-Id: I361442ffec1586d036ea2e0ee97ce4f077585f02
1. move the check of search method of USE_TX_8X8 up one level to
avoid operations of build_tree_distributions()
2. count tx used and avoid computaton for coef udpate when one size
is not used at all.
Change-Id: Ia3e54a2588aa531c41377a1bfaa64385d04a592c
1. reduce the size of temporaray arrays on stack
2. avoid build_tree_distribution for tx size that is not used at all.
Change-Id: I0f8d7124e16a3789d3c15ad24cf02c1c12789e2c
This patch was to fix issue 924:
https://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=924
The SECTION_RODATA macro was modified to support macho32 format.
The sub-pixel functions were modified to pass in 2 more parameters
to handle the global offsets for PIC build.
Change-Id: I3bfcd336bcae945edf300bca4ab40376a2628cd4
On Nexus 7 speed -6 saw ~18% increase in perf.
Tested on Nexus 7, built with ndk r10d, gcc 4.9.
BUG=https://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=908
Change-Id: I70ccdea0326750552ed946fb004507d6efe02d5c
On Nexus 7 speed -6 saw ~15% increase in perf.
Tested on Nexus 7, built with ndk r10d, gcc 4.9.
BUG=https://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=908
Change-Id: I4b2006b644c488f42bf06d8a22ef0e6120a96bf9
On Nexus 7 speed -6 saw ~30% increase in perf.
Tested on Nexus 7, built with ndk r10d, gcc 4.9.
BUG=https://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=908
Change-Id: Id12af7d1883243c23e6692e898aea82299633d58
