The patch adds the flexibility to use standard EOB based coding
on smaller block sizes and nzc based coding on larger blocksizes.
The tx-sizes that use nzc based coding and those that use EOB based
coding are controlled by a function get_nzc_used().
By default, this function uses nzc based coding for 16x16 and 32x32
transform blocks, which seem to bridge the performance gap
substantially.
All sets are now lower by 0.5% to 0.7%, as opposed to ~1.8% before.
Change-Id: I06abed3df57b52d241ea1f51b0d571c71e38fd0b
These are mostly just for experimental purposes. I saw small gains (in
the 0.1% range) when playing with this on derf.
Change-Id: Ib21eed477bbb46bddcd73b21c5c708a5b46abedc
Now that the first AC coefficient in both directions use the same DC
as their context, there no longer is a purpose in letting both have
their own band. Merging these two bands allows us to split bands for
some of the very high-frequency AC bands.
In addition, I'm redoing the banding for the 1D-ADST col/row scans. I
don't think the old banding made any sense at all (it merged the last
coefficient of the first row/col in the same band as the first two of
the second row/col), which was clearly an oversight from the band being
applied in scan-order (rather than in their actual position). Now,
coefficients at the same position will be in the same band, regardless
what scan order is used. I think this makes most sense for the purpose
of banding, which is basically "predict energy for this coefficient
depending on the energy of context coefficients" (i.e. pt).
After full re-training, together with previous patch, derf gains about
1.2-1.3%, and hd/stdhd gain about 0.9-1.0%.
Change-Id: I7a0cc12ba724e88b278034113cb4adaaebf87e0c
Pearson correlation for above or left is significantly higher than for
previous-in-scan-order (absolute values depend on position in scan, but
in general, we gain about 0.1-0.2 by using either above or left; using
both basically just makes this even better). For eob branch skipping,
we continue to use the previous token in scan order.
This helps about 0.9% on derf after re-training on a limited data set.
Full re-training and results on larger-resolution clips are pending.
Note that this commit breaks trellis, so we can probably get further
gains out of it by fixing trellis at some later point.
Change-Id: Iead68e296fc3a105cca746b5e3da9555d6010cfe
Adds probability updates for extra bits for the nzcs, code for
getting nzc stats, plus some minor cleanups and fixes.
Change-Id: If2814e7f04fb52f5025ad9f400f3e6c50a00b543
This also changes the RD search to take account of the correct block
index when searching (this is required for ADST positioning to work
correctly in combination with tx_select).
Change-Id: Ie50d05b3a024a64ecd0b376887aa38ac5f7b6af6
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
Split macroblock and superblock tokenization and detokenization
functions and coefficient-related data structs so that the bitstream
layout and related code of superblock coefficients looks less like it's
a hack to fit macroblocks in superblocks.
In addition, unify chroma transform size selection from luma transform
size (i.e. always use the same size, as long as it fits the predictor);
in practice, this means 32x32 and 64x64 superblocks using the 16x16 luma
transform will now use the 16x16 (instead of the 8x8) chroma transform,
and 64x64 superblocks using the 32x32 luma transform will now use the
32x32 (instead of the 16x16) chroma transform.
Lastly, add a trellis optimize function for 32x32 transform blocks.
HD gains about 0.3%, STDHD about 0.15% and derf about 0.1%. There's
a few negative points here and there that I might want to analyze
a little closer.
Change-Id: Ibad7c3ddfe1acfc52771dfc27c03e9783e054430
This patch alters the balance of context between the
coefficient bands (reflecting the position of coefficients
within a transform blocks) and the energy of the previous
token (or tokens) within a block.
In this case the number of coefficient bands is reduced
but more previous token energy bands are supported.
Some initial rebalancing of the default tables has been
by running multiple derf clips at multiple data rates using
the ENTOPY_STATS macro. Further balancing needs to be
done using larger image formatsd especially in regard to
the bigger transform sizes which are not as well represented
in encodings of smaller image formats.
Change-Id: If9736e95c391e711b04aef6393d26f60f36e1f8a
This patch abstracts the selection of the coefficient band
context into a function as a precursor to further experiments
with the coefficient context.
It also removes the large per TX size coefficient band structures
and uses a single matrix for all block sizes within the test function.
This may have an impact on quality (results to follow) but is only an
intermediate step in the process of redefining the context. Also the
quality impact will be larger initially because the default tables will
be out of step with the new banding.
In particular the 4x4 will in this case only use 7 bands. If needed we
can add back block size dependency localized within the function, but
this can follow on after the other changes to the definition of the
context.
Change-Id: Id7009c2f4f9bb1d02b861af85fd8223d4285bde5
This is an initial step to facilitate experimentation
with changes to the prior token context used to code
coefficients to take better account of the energy of
preceding tokens.
This patch merely abstracts the selection of context into
two functions and does not alter the output.
Change-Id: I117fff0b49c61da83aed641e36620442f86def86
Removal of the NEWCOEFCONTEXT experiment to
reduce code clutter and make it easier to experiment with
some other changes to the coefficient coding context.
Change-Id: Icd17b421384c354df6117cc714747647c5eb7e98
First step in simplifying the segment mode and
segment EOB flags into a simpler segment skip
flag that implies 0,0 mv and EOB at position 0.
Change-Id: Ib750cac31a7a02dc21082580498efd9f7d8d72a5
Adds an experiment to derive the previous context of a coefficient
not just from the previous coefficient in the scan order but from a
combination of several neighboring coefficients previously encountered
in scan order. A precomputed table of neighbors for each location
for each scan type and block size is used. Currently 5 neighbors are
used.
Results are about 0.2% positive using a strategy where the max coef
magnitude from the 5 neigbors is used to derive the context.
Change-Id: Ie708b54d8e1898af742846ce2d1e2b0d89fd4ad5
The mismatch was caused by an improper merge of cleanup code around
tokenize_b() and stuff_b() with TX32X32 experiment.
Change-Id: I225ae62f015983751f017386548d9c988c30664c
Gives 0.5-0.6% improvement on derf and stdhd, and 1.1% on hd. The
old tables basically derive from times that we had only 4x4 or
only 4x4 and 8x8 DCTs.
Note that some values are filled with 128, because e.g. ADST ever
only occurs as Y-with-DC, as does 32x32; 16x16 ever only occurs
as Y-with-DC or as UV (as complement of 32x32 Y); and 8x8 Y2 ever
only has 4 coefficients max. If preferred, I can add values of
other tables in their place (e.g. use 4x4 2nd order high-frequency
probabilities for 8x8 2nd order), so that they make at least some
sense if we ever implement a larger 2nd order transform for the
8x8 DCT (etc.), please let me know
Change-Id: I917db356f2aff8865f528eb873c56ef43aa5ce22
Add a function clip_pixel() to clip a pixel value to the [0,255] range
of allowed values, and use this where-ever appropriate (e.g. prediction,
reconstruction). Likewise, consistently use the recently added function
clip_prob(), which calculates a binary probability in the [1,255] range.
If possible, try to use get_prob() or its sister get_binary_prob() to
calculate binary probabilities, for consistency.
Since in some places, this means that binary probability calculations
are changed (we use {255,256}*count0/(total) in a range of places,
and all of these are now changed to use 256*count0+(total>>1)/total),
this changes the encoding result, so this patch warrants some extensive
testing.
Change-Id: Ibeeff8d886496839b8e0c0ace9ccc552351f7628
This commit changed the ENTROPY_CONTEXT conversion between MBs that
have different transform sizes.
In additioin, this commit also did a number of cleanup/bug fix:
1. removed duplicate function vp9_fix_contexts() and changed to use
vp8_reset_mb_token_contexts() for both encoder and decoder
2. fixed a bug in stuff_mb_16x16 where wrong context was used for
the UV.
3. changed reset all context to 0 if a MB is skipped to simplify the
logic.
Change-Id: I7bc57a5fb6dbf1f85eac1543daaeb3a61633275c
Use these, instead of the 4/5-dimensional arrays, to hold statistics,
counts, accumulations and probabilities for coefficient tokens. This
commit also re-allows ENTROPY_STATS to compile.
Change-Id: If441ffac936f52a3af91d8f2922ea8a0ceabdaa5
This adds Debargha's DCT/DWT hybrid and a regular 32x32 DCT, and adds
code all over the place to wrap that in the bitstream/encoder/decoder/RD.
Some implementation notes (these probably need careful review):
- token range is extended by 1 bit, since the value range out of this
transform is [-16384,16383].
- the coefficients coming out of the FDCT are manually scaled back by
1 bit, or else they won't fit in int16_t (they are 17 bits). Because
of this, the RD error scoring does not right-shift the MSE score by
two (unlike for 4x4/8x8/16x16).
- to compensate for this loss in precision, the quantizer is halved
also. This is currently a little hacky.
- FDCT and IDCT is double-only right now. Needs a fixed-point impl.
- There are no default probabilities for the 32x32 transform yet; I'm
simply using the 16x16 luma ones. A future commit will add newly
generated probabilities for all transforms.
- No ADST version. I don't think we'll add one for this level; if an
ADST is desired, transform-size selection can scale back to 16x16
or lower, and use an ADST at that level.
Additional notes specific to Debargha's DWT/DCT hybrid:
- coefficient scale is different for the top/left 16x16 (DCT-over-DWT)
block than for the rest (DWT pixel differences) of the block. Therefore,
RD error scoring isn't easily scalable between coefficient and pixel
domain. Thus, unfortunately, we need to compute the RD distortion in
the pixel domain until we figure out how to scale these appropriately.
Change-Id: I00386f20f35d7fabb19aba94c8162f8aee64ef2b
Previously, the "!=" check is logically incorrect when eob is at 0 and
effective coefficient starting position is 1. This commit should have
no effect on bitstream.
Change-Id: I6ce3a847c7e72bfbe4f7c74f88e3310c6b9b6d30
This patch allows use of 8x8 and 4x4 ADST correctly for Intra
16x16 modes and Intra 8x8 modes when the block size selected
is smaller than the prediction mode. Also includes some cleanups
and refactoring.
Rebase.
Change-Id: Ie3257bdf07bdb9c6e9476915e3a80183c8fa005a
This commit makes sure Y2 entropy coding context is always updated on
every macroblock even there is no Y2 block.
Change-Id: Ie307cfc46526efe55613be39f9f178d2531b56ba
Support for gyp which doesn't support multiple objects in the same
static library having the same basename.
Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc
