Renaming vp9_sb_mv_ref_tree to vp9_inter_mode_tree, and
vp9_sb_mv_ref_encoding_array to vp9_inter_mode_encodings.
Change-Id: I0e91fbf81350d3ec5a2599064c74089b5d06133a
This prevents a duplicate memcpy of a 128-byte struct every time
set_scale_factors() is called (which is a lot), thus leading to a
decrease from 3.7 MB to 1.85 MB of struct copying per 64x64 block
RD/partition loop.
Overall, this decreases encoding time of the first 50 frames of bus
@ 1500kbps (speed 0) from 1min5.9 to 1min4.9, i.e. about a 1.5%
overall speedup. We can likely get more gains by removing the copy
of the other struct (and replacing it with an indexing) as well.
Change-Id: I3dceb7e79f71e6fe911b11cc994cf89a869dde7a
This means we only do UV intra mode selection if we find any intra
mode to actually be useful at all; in addition, we only do UV intra
mode selection for the transform sizes that were selected, rather
than all sizes available in this partition.
First 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps (speed 0) gains about 5% with this
change.
Change-Id: I7b461eb8b803247f57896c5a9505f745b55502b3
The break statement only breaks out of the nested loop, not the
top-level loop, so it doesn't always work as intended. Changing it
to a return statement does what's intended.
Change-Id: I585419823b39a04ec8826b1c8a216099b1728ba7
This could happen during golden overlay frame coding from a previous
alt-ref frame if the special overlay code was triggered.
Change-Id: I3056d0c547cd26903b260ef93c94026e96bd9868
Encoding of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps goes from
1min6.2 to 1min5.9, i.e. 0.5% faster overall.
Change-Id: I59d8a3b2f0a75010fa041d5e2646c8caac5bd683
Encode of first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps (speed 0) goes from
1min7.3 to 1min6.2, i.e. 1.7% faster overall.
Change-Id: I19d2deacfbffadd61d32551cee9586757ab4a987
Encode of first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps (speed 0) goes from 1min12.8
to 1min7.3, i.e. 8% faster.
Change-Id: Ia22d1c7b687316c553cc60eacae988b24e175b62
About 15% faster for bus (speed 0) first 50 frames @ 1500kbps, which
goes from 1min36 to 1min24. Results become slightly better (+0.2% on
derf/yt, +0.4% on hd), probably because of a bugfix for skipmode in
super_block_yrd(). Overall speed change (on derfraw300) is roughly
-13%. This can probably be improved further by caching best_yrd
between partition searches. Also, we might be able to get more
speedups by always doing PARTITION_NONE before PARTITIONS_SPLIT, not
just at the sb8x8 level.
Change-Id: I83736949ebd5b4a3b400ee688d7661913fefc98b
Current partition checking starts from small sizes, and then goes up
to large sizes. This experiment uses the small partitions' motion
estimation result, which is already available, to speed up the
large partition's motion estimation. We can decide to skip some
patition checkings if they are unlikely choices. We could use the
motion vector(MV) result as current partition's prediction MV, limit
the search range and reference frame.
Current result at speed 1:
psnr loss: 1.19% for stdhd, 0.287% for derf.
speed gain: 14% for sunflower(hd), 11% for akiyo.
Further improvement will be done later.
Change-Id: I5abfd070e9cace2e91e2a0247d1325df313887ab
Use an estimate based on DC_PRED for intra uv cost
within the rd loop then only do a full uv mode analysis
if an intra mode is chosen.
Significant speed gains in some cases. Currently only
enabled for speed 2 pending speed/quality tests.
Change-Id: Ie851a12400d5483bce47ec0e3ccb8516041e91c0
This commit makes the encoder to perform motion search only once
per reference frame type for each 4x4/4x8/8x4 block. For bus_cif
at 2000 kbps, the runtime goes from 253812ms -> 217817ms
(14% speed-up) for speed 0.
Change-Id: I5f17599ccc8cfaf93ccb4f98fcb6008af6d79e92
This speed feature allows the encoder to largely remove the spatial
dependency between blocks inside a 64x64 superblock, thereby removing
the need to repeatedly encode superblocks per partition type in the
rate-distortion optimization loop.
A major challenge lies in the intra modes tested in the rate-distortion
optimization loop. The subsequent blocks do not have access to the
reconstructed boundary pixels without the intermediate coding steps.
This was resolved by using the original pixels for intra prediction
in the rd loop, followed by an appropriately designed distortion
modeling on the quantization parameters. Experiments also suggested
that the performance impact is more discernible at lower bit-rate/psnr
settings. Hence a quantizer dependent threshold is applied to deactivate
skip of block coding.
For bus_cif at 2000 kbps,
speed 0: runtime 269854ms -> 237774ms (12% speed-up) at 0.05dB
performance loss.
speed 1: runtime 65312ms -> 61536ms, (7% speed-up) at 0.04dB
performance loss.
This operation is currently turned on in settings of speed 1.
Change-Id: Ib689741dfff8dd38365d8c1b92860a3e176f56ec
Implements some of the helper functions more efficiently with
lookups rathers than branches. Modeling function is consolidated
to reduce some computations.
Also merged the two enums BLOCK_SIZE_TYPES and BlockSize into
one because there is no need to keep them separate (even though
the semantics are a little different).
No bitstream or output change.
About 0.5% speedup
Change-Id: I7d71a66e8031ddb340744dc493f22976052b8f9f
Adding segmentation struct to vp9_seg_common.h. Struct members are from
macroblockd and VP9Common structs. Moving segmentation related constants
and enums to vp9_seg_common.h.
Change-Id: I23fabc33f11a359249f5f80d161daf569d02ec03
This commit fixed the mis-use of the tx_type for inverse transform
in intra4x4 rate-distortion optimization loop. It improves the
overall coding performance.
Change-Id: I7fe9953175b74890357dbcee33c138573766e980
Adds a speed feature to eliminate full-rd computation if the modeled
rd or rd based on a different parameter in the same mode is already
a lot larger than the best rd yet.
Specifically, only search the sharp and smooth filters if the modeled
rd cost based on the regular filter is within a certain factor of the
best rd cost so far. Also, skip full-rd computation of non splitmv
inter modes if the modeled rd cost based on pred error is within the
same factor of the best rd cost so far.
Also adds some enhancements in the rd search for splitmv mode to
speed things up by early breakouts. Negligible impact on performance.
Resuts on derfraw300:
psnr: -0.013% with the splitmv enhancements, -0.24% with the rd
breakout feature on.
speedup: 6% with splitmv enhancements, 20% with also residual breakout
(tested on football sequence at 600 Kbps)
Change-Id: I37abc308ea9f110c1679ce649b6a7e73ab1ad5fc
Encode time of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps goes from
2min4.9 to 2min3.1, i.e. a 1.4% speedup overall.
Change-Id: I9b25e87974430cb942caa276410bb2eda815bd83
Changes cost_mv_ref() into doing a LUT into pre-calculated cost
arrays instead. Encode time of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0)
@ 1500kbps goes from 2min11.6 to 2min10.9, i.e. 0.5% faster overall.
Change-Id: If186e92c34c201b29cbbc058785a15c9c09e433a
Encode time of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps goes from
2min4.9 to 2min3.1, i.e. a 1.4% speedup overall.
Change-Id: Ibe8b08d159797504c5d0c5122de1b6da3b6595e0
Overall, on all test sets, this gains about +0.2% on all metrics.
City is a clip where this really hurts (-1.0% on all metrics), I'm
not quite sure why yet. Maybe interesting to look into in the future.
Change-Id: I6f0eecb20e72f0194633270d30bf00d76d9eae78
Skips mode searches for intra and compound inter modes depending
on the best mode so far and the reference frames. The various
heuristics to be used are selected by bits from a flag. The
previous direction based intra mode search pruning is also absorbed
in this framework.
Specifically the flags and their impact are:
1) FLAG_SKIP_INTRA_BESTINTER (skip intra mode search for oblique
directional modes and TM_PRED if the best so far is
an inter mode)
derfraw300: -0.15%, 10% speedup
2) FLAG_SKIP_INTRA_DIRMISMATCH (skip D27, D63, D117 and D153
mode search if the best so far is not one of the closest
hor/vert/diagonal directions.
derfraw300: -0.05%, about 9% speedup
3) FLAG_SKIP_COMP_BESTINTRA (skip compound prediction mode
search if the best so far is an intra mode)
derfraw300: -0.06%, about 7-8% speedup
4) FLAG_SKIP_COMP_REFMISMATCH (skip compound prediction search
if the best single ref inter mode does not have the same ref
as one of the two references being tested in the compound mode)
derfraw300: -0.56%, about 10% speedup
Change-Id: I1a736cd29b36325489e7af9f32698d6394b2c495
This commit allows encoder to detect the cumulative rate-distortion
cost per transformed block inside a partition. If the cumulative
rd cost is already above the best rd value, it terminates the rest
operations and continue to next prediction mode test.
It reduces the runtime of bus at target bit-rate 2000 from 308 second
to 266 second, i.e., about 13% speed-up at no performance penalty.
Change-Id: I5f15a3d8955d97031d5653006027866a00654e7a
sf->unused_mode_skip_lvl. Tests modes as normal for all
sizes at or below the given level. At larger sizes it skips
all modes that were not chosen at any smaller size.
Hence setting BLOCK_SIZE_SB64X64 is in effect off.
Setting BLOCK_SIZE_AB4X4 will only consider modes that
were chosen for one or more 4x4 blocks at larger sizes.
sf->reference_masking.
Do a test encode of the NONE partition at one size and create
a reference frame mask based on the best rd choice. In the
full search only allow this reference frame.
Currently it is testing 64x64 and repeats this in the full search.
This does not work well with Jim's Partition code just now and
is disabled by default.
Change-Id: I8f8c52d2ef4a0c08100150b0ea4155d1aaab93dd
This speed feature will skip searching the directional intra prediction
modes D63, D117, D27, D153 if the best intra mode so far is not one of
the diagonal, horizontal or vertical directions closest to the respective
directions being tested. In other words, this implements a sort of
binary search in the angular domain.
Speedup: about 9-10%
Results: -0.05% only on derfraw300.
Change-Id: I413584c41f2a3e8dabfbdeb40718c8fc4b1d63a2
(1) Refines the modeling function and uses that to add some speed
features. Specifically, intead of using a flag use_largest_txfm as
a speed feature, an enum tx_size_search_method is used, of which
two of the types are USE_FULL_RD and USE_LARGESTALL. Two other
new types are added:
USE_LARGESTINTRA (use largest only for intra)
USE_LARGESTINTRA_MODELINTER (use largest for intra, and model for
inter)
(2) Another change is that the framework for deciding transform type
is simplified to use a heuristic count based method rather than
an rd based method using txfm_cache. In practice the new method
is found to work just as well - with derf only -0.01 down.
The new method is more compatible with the new framework where
certain rd costs are based on full rd and certain others are
based on modeled rd or are not computed. In this patch the existing
rd based method is still kept for use in the USE_FULL_RD mode.
In the other modes, the count based method is used.
However the recommendation is to remove it eventually since the
benefit is limited, and will remove a lot of complications in
the code
(3) Finally a bug is fixed with the existing use_largest_txfm speed feature
that causes mismatches when the lossless mode and 4x4 WH transform is
forced.
Results on derf:
USE_FULL_RD: +0.03% (due to change in the tables), 0% encode time reduction
USE_LARGESTINTRA: -0.21%, 15% encode time reduction (this one is a
pretty good compromise)
USE_LARGESTINTRA_MODELINTER: -0.98%, 22% encode time reduction
(currently the benefit of modeling is limited for txfm size selection,
but keeping this enum as a placeholder) .
USE_LARGESTALL: -1.05%, 27% encode-time reduction (same as existing
use_largest_txfm speed feature).
Change-Id: I4d60a5f9ce78fbc90cddf2f97ed91d8bc0d4f936
Compute the rate-distortion cost per transformed block, and cumulate
the cost through all blocks inside a partition. This allows encoder
to detect if the cumulative rd cost is already above the best rd cost,
thereby enabling early termination in the rate-distortion optimization
search.
Change-Id: I0a856367a9a7b6dd0b466e7b767f54d5018d09ac
This should significantly speedup cost_coeffs(). Basically what the
patch does is to make the neighbour arrays padded by one item to
prevent an eob check in get_coef_context(), then it populates each
col/row scan and left/top edge coefficient with two times the same
neighbour - this prevents a single/double context branch in
get_coef_context(). Lastly, it populates neighbour arrays in pixel
order (rather than scan order), so we don't have to dereference the
scantable to get the correct neighbours.
Total encoding time of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) at 1500kbps
goes from 2min10.1 to 2min5.3, i.e. a 2.6% overall speed increase.
Change-Id: I42bcd2210fd7bec03767ef0e2945a665b851df56
Total encoding time for first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps
goes 2min34.8 to 2min14.4, i.e. a 10.4% overall speedup. The code is
x86-64 only, it needs some minor modifications to be 32bit compatible,
because it uses 15 xmm registers, whereas 32bit only has 8.
Change-Id: I2df53770c2e850813ffa713e1a91b45b0082b904
Added a speed feature that focuses only on thresholds
for new motion modes.
Moved sf->comp_inter_joint_search_thresh into speed
1. This has ~+0.4% impact on quality at speed 0 as
our quality reference baseline.
Slight adjustment to baseline thresholds.
Change-Id: I7ebf104f1fe29af77ed4837b2e84be065621bbe5
Makes cost_coeffs() a lot faster:
4x4: 236 -> 181 cycles
8x8: 888 -> 588 cycles
16x16: 3550 -> 2483 cycles
32x32: 17392 -> 12010 cycles
Total encode time of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps goes
from 2min51.6 to 2min43.9, i.e. 4.7% overall speedup.
Change-Id: I16b8d595946393c8dc661599550b3f37f5718896
Cycle timings for first 3 frames of bus (speed 0) at 1500kbps:
4x4: 298 -> 234 cycles
8x8: 1227 -> 878 cycles
16x16: 23426 -> 18134 cycles
32x32: 4906 -> 3664 cycles
Total encode time of first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps (speed 0) goes
from 3min0.7 to 2min51.6 seconds, i.e. 5.3% faster.
Change-Id: I68a0e1b530b0563b84a67342cca4b45146077e95
This commit replaces zrun_zbin_boost, a method of biasing non-zero
coefficients following runs of zero-coefficients to be rounded towards
zero, with an explicit skip-block choice in the RD loop.
The logic is basically that if individual coefficients should be rounded
towards zero (from a RD point of view), the trellis/optimize loop should
take care of it. If whole blocks should be zero (from a RD point of
view), a single RD check is much more efficient than a complete
serialization of the quantization loop.
Quality change: derf +0.5% psnr, +1.6% ssim; yt +0.6% psnr, +1.1% ssim.
SIMD for quantize will follow in a separate patch. Results for other
test sets pending.
Change-Id: Ife5fa641163ac5150ac428011e87188f1937c1f4
This commit enables configurable reference buffer pointer for intra
predictor. This allows later removal of spatial dependency between
blocks inside a 64x64 superblock in the rate-distortion optimization
loop.
Change-Id: I02418c2077efe19adc86e046a6b49364a980f5b1
Also tweaks to other features and experiments with
what is on and off at different speed settings.
Change-Id: I3e1d0be0d195216bf17c2ac5df67f34ce0b306b2
Each frame we reset all adaptive thresholds to MAX
rather than base. As modes are picked their thresholds
drop down.
Change-Id: Ia37f03a73003c2d9bfcda57edea07205e9a0e5e8
Renamed cpi->sf.first_step to cpi->sf.reduce_first_step_size
and changed its meaning such that it is a delta applied to
reduce the default first step size (>> x) in the motion search
rather than an absolute value.
The default first step size is already changed according to the image
dimensions (smaller for smaller images). cpi->sf.reduce_first_step_size
now applies a further correction from the default.
Change-Id: Ia94e08bc24c67b604831f980909af7e982fcd16d
Change vp9_block_error() to return a 64bit error variable, change all
callers to expect a 64bit return value (this will prevent overflows,
which we basically don't check for at all right now). Remove duplicate
block_error() function, which fixed that through truncation. Remove
old (incompatible) mmx/sse2 block_error SIMD versions and replace with
a new one that returns a 64bit value.
Encoding time of first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps goes from 3min29 to
3min23, i.e. a 3% overall speedup.
Change-Id: Ib71ac5508b5ee8a80f1753cd85d72df1629abe68
Improves the rd modeling function and implements them using interpolation
from a table which is a little faster. Also uses sse as input to the
modeling function rather than var - since there is no dc prediction
used and as a result the sse works a little better.
derfraw300: +0.05%
Speedup: ~1%
Change-Id: I151353c6451e0e8fe3ae18ab9842f8f67e5151ff
Change the argument of get_uv_tx_size() to be an MBMI pointer, so that the
correct column's MBMI can be passed to the function.
Change-Id: Ied6b8ec33b77cdd353119e8fd2d157811815fc98
Fixed point scaling factors are calculated once for each
reference frame by using integer division. Otherwise fixed point
scaling routines are used in all scaling calculations. This makes it
possible to calculate fixed point scaling factors on device driver
software and pass them to hardware and thus avoid division on hardware.
TODO:
- Missing check for maximum frame dimensions
(currently scaling uses 14 bits)
- Missing check for maximum scaling ratio
(upscaling 16:1, downscaling 2:1)
Problems:
- Straightforward fixed point implementation can cause error +-1
compared to integer division (i.e. in x_step_q4). Should only
be an issue for frames larger than 16k.
Change-Id: I3cf4dabd610a4dc18da3bdb31ae244ebaf5d579c
Adds coding of transform size within a frame by use of context
of transform sizes selected in left and above blocks.
Also incorporates code for generating stats.
TODO: generate and incorporate new default stats
Change-Id: I6a7af099f6ad61d448521d9a51167aedaf638ed6
Changes to the coding of transform sizes, along with forward
and backward probability updates.
Results:
derf300: +0.241%
Context based coding of transform sizes will be in a separate
patch.
Change-Id: I97241d60a926f014fee2de21fa4446ca56495756
Code intra/inter, then comp/single, then the ref frame selection.
Use contextualization for all steps. Don't code two past frames
in comp pred mode.
Change-Id: I4639a78cd5cccb283023265dbcc07898c3e7cf95
Split partition probabilities between keyframes and non-keyframes,
since they are fairly different. Also have per-blocksize interframe
y intramode probabilities, since these vary heavily between different
blocksizes.
Lastly, replace default probabilities for partitioning and intra modes
with new ones generated from current codec. Replace counts with actual
probabilities also.
Change-Id: I77ca996e25e4a28e03bdbc542f27a3e64ca1234f
Added structures to support independent rd thresholds
for different block sizes (and set experimental block
size correction factors).
Added structure to to allow dynamic adaptation of thresholds
per mode and per block size basis depending on how often
the mode/block size combination is seen (currently fixed factor).
Removed some unused variables.
TODO
- Adaptation of thresholds based on how often each mode chosen.
- The baseline mode values could also be adjusted based on
the block size (e.g. for a particular intra mode use a low threshold
for 4x4 prediction blocks but a relatively high value for 64x64.
Change-Id: Iddee65ff3324ee309815ae7c1c5a8584720e7568
This avoids encoding tokens for blocks that are entirely
in the UMV border. This changes the bitstream.
Change-Id: I32b4df46ac8a990d0c37cee92fd34f8ddd4fb6c9
This commit makes the coding/reconstruction operations of intra
coding rate-distortion loop for UV components consistent with those
of the encoding process.
key frame coding gains:
derf: 0.11%
stdhd: 0.42%
Change-Id: I8d49f83924a320e3689ef2d60096c49d7f0c7a40
This commit makes operations of the superblock intra coding rate
distortion optimization consistent with those used in the encoding
process. Given the test prediction mode and transform size, the rd
optimizer encodes and reconstructs each transformed block of the
superblock consecutively, then computes the total rate-distortion
costs accosicated with the current superblock to select the coding
decisions.
It achieves coding performance gains:
derf 0.353%
yt 1.111%
Change-Id: I0da2eb7a71361dfb8c1384927fc536b0c2790d07
Enable iterative motion search for compound inter-inter prediction
of block sizes 4x4/4x8/8x4 only when best coding quality is selected.
The iterative motion search provides about 0.1% gains for derf and
stdhd at this point, at the expense of longer runtime.
Change-Id: Idc03e7f827e51f1bb8d269bc3752ee297a6bbfe5
Migrates costing changes/fixes from the rebalance expt to the head
without the expt on.
Rebased.
Change-Id: I51677d62f77ed08aca8d21a4c9a13103eb8de93f
Results:
derfraw300: +0.126%
This speed 1 - uses variance threshold stolen from static-thresh
to determine split. Any superblock with greater than the variance
set by static thresh * quantizer index squared is split. In addition
transform size is set to largest size less than or equal to partition
size, sub pixel filter is set to normal, and only 12 modes are used
at all.
Change-Id: If7a2858ee70f96d1eb989c04fd87a332b147abef
We leave it in rdopt.c as a local define for now - this can be removed
later. In all other places, we remove it, thereby slightly decreasing
the size of some arrays in the bitstream.
Change-Id: Ic2a9beb97a4eda0b086f62c039d994b192f99ca5
It remains as a local define in rdopt.c so we can distinguish between
split and non-split modes in the RD loop, but disappears outside that
scope in the codec.
Change-Id: I98c18fe5ab7e4fbd1d6620ec5695e2ea20513ce9
This commit enables iterative motion search for 4x4/4x8/8x4 block
size compound inter-inter prediction.
WIP: borg run testing
Change-Id: I2b318db4a03cdca5a8002b3fa6c0fa89b129288b
This patch changes the coefficient tree to move the EOB to below
the ZERO node in order to save number of bool decodes.
The advantages of moving EOB one step down as opposed to two steps down
in the other parallel patch are: 1. The coef modeling based on
the One-node becomes independent of the tree structure above it, and
2. Fewer conext/counter increases are needed.
The drawback is that the potential savings in bool decodes will be
less, but assuming that 0s are much more predominant than 1's the
potential savings is still likely to be substantial.
Results on derf300: -0.237%
Change-Id: Ie784be13dc98291306b338e8228703a4c2ea2242
For 4x4 blocks valgrind points out the cache was uninitalized.
This resolves the issue by setting it.
Change-Id: I22733000da048643762813a84fbda66d8e4040d2
This commit makes clean-ups in the rate-distortion loop for 4x4,
4x8, and 8x4 block sizes for the use of iterative motion search.
Removed unnecessary use of bmi in handle_inter_mode.
Deprecated loop over labels in the 4x4/4x8/8x4 block rd search.
Change-Id: I71203dbb68b65e66f073b37abd90d82ef5ae6826
This patch checks at the frame level to see if the previous
mode info context can be used. This patch eliminates the
flag check that was done for every mode and removes another
check that was done prior to every vp9_find_mv_refs().
Change-Id: I9da5e18b7e7e28f8b1f90d527cad087073df2d73
scales for second reference frame vars are unitialized if the
second ref frame is one of of those disallowed by refframeflags
Change-Id: I4ce42de391178c1699dcaede18c5f12c84993c61
Proposal for tuning the residual coding by changing how the context
from previous tokens is calculated. Storing the energy class of previous
tokens instead of the token itself eases the critical path of
HW implementations.
Change-Id: I6d71d856b84518f6c88de771ddd818436f794bab
This commit pulls the iterative motion search for compound inter-
inter out from handle_inter_mode_ as a separate function. Hence,
it is applicable to 4x4/4x8/8x4 level compound inter search to be
enabled later.
Also edit the rd loop for 4x4 inter block sizes for cosmetic
purpose.
Change-Id: Ibc71a11cbe5a26cd52faba01026cf8446cf4d2b4
Removed one 4x4 prediction step that was unnessary in the rd loop.
Removed a unused modecosts estimate from encoder side.
Change-Id: I65221a52719d6876492996955ef04142d2752d86
1. remove prediction mode conversion
2. unified bmode, same for key and non-key frame
3. set I4X4_PRED count for pdf to 0, as I4X4_PRED is no longer
coded ever. It is determined by ref_frame and block partition
Change-Id: If5b282957c24339b241acdb9f2afef85658fe47d
Also do per-partition motion vector referencing in <sb8x8 partitions,
and adjust mvref finding for sub8x8 partitions.
Change-Id: Id3ed1ed4d2a8910d11d327db6cc63b8eb79f941f
This commit refactors the iterative motion search for compound
inter-inter mode, to make it support all partition types including
4x4/4x8/8x4 block sizes.
Change-Id: I5f1212b0f307377291763e45c6bdc9693b5f04c8
Move 4x4/4x8/8x4 partition coding out of experimental list.
This commit fixed the unit test failure issues. It also resolved
the merge conflicts between 4x4 block level partition and iterative
motion search for comp_inter_inter.
Change-Id: I898671f0631f5ddc4f5cc68d4c62ead7de9c5a58
Reverts to using 128 bit LUT for the coef models rather than 48
to ease hardware implementation.
Also incorporates some cleanups including removing various
hooks to support different lookup tables based on block_type and
ref_type.
Change-Id: I54100c120cca07a2ebd3a7776bc4630fa6a153f6
This commit allows the rate-distortion optimization of intra coding
capable of supporting 8x4 and 4x8 partition settings.
It enables the entropy coding of intra modes in key frame using a
unified contextual probability model conditioned on its above/left
prediction modes.
Coding performance:
derf 0.464%
Change-Id: Ieed055084e11fcb64d5d5faeb0e706d30268ba18
Cleans up the experiment. Actually uses reduced counts for backward
updates, and reduced number of probabilities in the context.
No change in bitstream when the experiment is on.
Between expt on and off:
derfraw300 is down only -0.062% (which is better than when expts
were run previously).
Change-Id: I55285a049a0c22810bdb42914212ab5a4f8521b5
This patch eliminates the intermediate diff buffer usage by
combining the short idct and the add residual into one function.
The encoder can use the same code as well.
Change-Id: I296604bf73579c45105de0dd1adbcc91bcc53c22
The recursive partition type search is enabled down to 4x4, 4x8 and
8x4, followed by the corresponding rate-distortion optimization for
the per-partition encoding mode decisions.
The bit-stream writing/reading synchronized in supporting the
rectangular partition of 8x8 block.
This provides above 1% coding performance gains on derf.
To do next:
1. re-design the rate-distortion loop for inter prediction below 8x8.
2. re-design the rate-distortion loop for intra prediction below 4x4.
3. make the loop-filter aware of rectangular partition of 8x8 block.
4. clean the unused probability models.
5. update default probability values.
Change-Id: Idd41a315b16879db08f045a322241f46f1d53f20
This is a mostly-working implementation of an extra channel in the
bitstream. Configure with --enable-alpha to test. Notable TODOs:
- Add extra channel to all mismatch tests, PSNR, SSIM, etc
- Configurable subsampling
- Variable number of planes (currently always uses all 4)
- Loop filtering
- Per-plane lossless quantizer
- ARNR support
This implementation just uses the same contents as the Y channel
for the A channel, due to lack of content and general pain in
playing back 4 channel content. A later patch will use the actual
alpha channel passed in from outside the codec.
Change-Id: Ibf81f023b1c570bd84b3064e9b4b8ae52e087592
These building blocks enable rate-distortion optimization search
over block sizes of 8x4 and 4x8. Need to convert them into mmx/sse
forms.
Change-Id: I570ea2d22d14ceec3fe3575128d7dfa172a577de
This commit allows proper transform type (DCT/ADST) selection in
the settings of partition 4x4 level.
Change-Id: Iec6f922a46480d777e7ca9142a99e8c131f0077b
This commit allows the rate-distortion optimization recursion
at encoder to go down to 4x4 block size. It deprecates the use
of I4X4_PRED and SPLITMV syntax elements from bit-stream
writing/reading. Will remove the unused probability models in
the next patch.
The partition type search and bit-stream are now capable of
supporting the rectangular partition of 8x8 block, i.e., 8x4
and 4x8. Need to revise the rate-distortion parts to get these
two partition tested in the rd loop.
Change-Id: I0dfe3b90a1507ad6138db10cc58e6e237a06a9d6
Allow motion search multiple times iteratively, and break out
the loop if this search couldn't find better motion vectors.
Limit the maximum number of search to 2.
Tests results:
1. stdhd set: 0.311%(overall psnr); 0.346%(ssim).
positive gain on 10 out of 16 clips(best: 2.746% on sunflower;
worst: -0.434% on old_town_cross).
2. derf set: 0.016%(overall psnr); 0.062%(ssim).
positive gain on half of the clips(best: 0.499% on bowing;
worst: -0.387 on city).
Change-Id: Ibf0a51776d4caf7707be0586346db08128117559
Change band calculation back to simpler model based
on the order in which coefficients are coded in scan order
not the absolute coefficient positions.
With the scatter scan experiment enabled the results were
appear broadly neutral on derf (-0.028) but up a little on std-hd +0.134).
Without the scatterscan experiment on the results were up derf as well.
Change-Id: Ie9ef03ce42a6b24b849a4bebe950d4a5dffa6791
Use 4x4 block coding for UV components arbitrarily in I4X4_PRED and
SPLITMV coding modes. This is a temporary solution to enable
bit-stream support for recursive partition down to 4x4 block size.
Will separate the functionalities of 4x4 block coding rate-distortion
out from those of superblocks.
Change-Id: I03dc15d5897014f175f3f2c91e9b266091d56797
In current code, motion vectors got from single prediction mode are used
in compound prediction mode directly. These motion vectors may not give
accurate prediction since they are searched independently. In this patch,
we took Pascal's suggestion, and did joint motion search in compound
prediction mode to find better motion vectors in this situation.
Test results:
Overall PSNR: 0.570%(derf), 0.918%(stdhd);
SSIM: 0.572%(derf), 1.009%(stdhd);
The encoder is a little slower. This can be improved since some c
code is used in motion search.
Change-Id: Ib30c9240f6c56c9b070867b4ca89412a76d9f3c6
Makes the temporary storage of the filtered data agnostic to
the number of planes and how they're subsampled.
Change-Id: I12f352cd69a47ebe1ac622af30db29b49becb7f4
Iterating over all planes in the loop instead of custom y,uv code inside
handle_inter_mode function.
Change-Id: I301f9276d6d544c2fd7203d84f1318ac80ea625d
Disable the use of scaled reference frame for motion search in
SPLITMV mode. This fixes the unit test failure issue triggered
when merging sb8x8 from experimental list.
Change-Id: I02ac25fd8db8d5762f8fee29513b947189875fa0
This allows removing a large number of transform size specific functions,
as well as supporting 444/alpha by routing all code through the
subsampling-aware path.
Change-Id: Ieb085cebe9f37f24fc24de179898b22abfda08a4
Work-in-progress, not yet ready for review. TODO items:
- bitstream writing (encoder) and reading (decoder)
- decoder reconstruction
Change-Id: I5afb7284e7e0480847b47cd0097cb469433c9081
Output changes slightly because of a minor bug in (at least) the sb32x16
block2above tx16x16 tables that previously existed in vp9_blockd.c.
Change-Id: I624af28ac200a8322d64454cf05c79e9502968cc
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I7ff2fa72d22c29163eb558981c8193765a8113d9
This originally was "Removed update_blockd_bmi()". Now,
this patch removed bmi from blockd and uses the bmi found
in mode_info_context. Eliminates unnecessary bmi copies between
blockd and mode_info_context.
Change-Id: I287a4972974bb363f49e528daa9b2a2293f4bc76
Basic assumption: when talking about transform units, use b_; when
talking about macroblock indices, use mb_.
Change-Id: Ifd163f595d4924ff892de4eb0401ccd56dc81884
The underlying storage for these buffers is in the per-plane MACROBLOCKD
area, so read it from there directly.
Change-Id: Id6bd835117fdd9dea07db95ad06eff9f12afaaf7
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I593fb0715e74cd84b48facd1c9b18c3ae1185d4b
This commit enables selecting probability models for recursive block
partition information syntax, depending on its above/left partition
information, as well as the current block size. These conditional
probability models are reasonably stationary and consistent across
frames, hence the backward adaptive approach is used to maintain and
update the contextual models.
It achieves coding performance gains (on top of enabling rectangular
block sizes):
derf: 0.242%
yt: 0.391%
hd: 0.376%
stdhd: 0.645%
Change-Id: Ie513d9673337f0d27abd65fb566b711d0844ec2e
This commit moves the coeff storage from the MACROBLOCK struct to its
per-plane part. The next commit will remove the coeff member from the
BLOCK structure so that it is consistently accessed per-plane.
Also refactors vp9_sb_block_error_c and vp9_sb_uv_block_error_c to be
variable subsampling aware.
Change-Id: I18c30f87f27c3a012119b6c1970d5fa499804455
First in a series of commits making certain MACROBLOCK members
addressable per-plane. This commit also refactors the block subtraction
functions vp9_subtract_b, vp9_subtract_sby_c, etc to be
loops-over-planes and variable subsampling aware.
Change-Id: I371d092b914ae0a495dfd852ea1a3d2467be6ec3
This version of speed 1 only disables modes at higher resolution that
had distortions >2x the best mode we found...
The hope is that this could be a replacement for speed 0 ...
Change-Id: I7421f1016b8958314469da84c4dccddf25390720
Adds an experiment that codes an end-of-orientation symbol
for every eligible zero encountered in scan order.
This cleans out various other sub-experiments that were part
of the origiinal patch, which will be later included if found
useful.
Results are slightly positive on all sets (0.1 - 0.2% range).
Change-Id: I57765c605fefc7fb9d1b57f1b356843602abefaf
Removes the redundant dst pointers from vp9_build_inter_predictors_sb{y,uv}
and the remaining mb specific functions.
Change-Id: I7b6bf439d9394b85ea79b4fe61a3ffc1025720da
First in a series of commits moving the framebuffers pointers to
per-plane data, so that they can be indexed numerically rather than
by name.
Change-Id: I6e0d60fd4d51e6375c384eb7321776564df21775
Further simplification of mvref search to return
only the top two candidates. Distance weights removed
as the test order reflects distance anyway.
Change-Id: I0518cab7280258fec2058670add4f853fab7b855
As we are no longer able to sort the candidate
mvrefs in both encoder and decode and given
that the cost of explicit signalling has proved
prohibitive, it no longer makes sense to find more
than 2 candidates.
This patch:
Modifies and simplifies add_candidate_mv()
Removes the forced addition of a 0 vector in the
MAX_MV_REF_CANDIDATES-1 position (in preparation
to reducing MAX_MV_REF_CANDIDATES to 2).
Re-orders the addition of candidates slightly.
This actually gives small gains (circa 0.2% on std-hd)
A subsequent patch will remove NEW_MVREF experiment,
reduce MAX_MV_REF_CANDIDATES to 2 and remove distance
weights as these are implicit now in the order.
Change-Id: I3dbe1a6f8a1a18b3c108257069c22a1141a207a4
Use in-place buffers (dst of MACROBLOCKD) for macroblock prediction.
This makes the macroblock buffer handling consistent with those of
superblock. Remove predictor buffer MACROBLOCKD.
Change-Id: Id1bcd898961097b1e6230c10f0130753a59fc6df
Adds RD integration for 32x16, 16x32, 64x32 and 32x64 rectangular blocks.
Derf almost +0.6%, HD a little over +1.0%, STDHD +1.3%.
Change-Id: Id651fdb6a655fdbb5c47009757e63317acfb88a5
This flag was added to VP8 to allow a mode where MB-level skipping
was not allowed, saving a bit per mb. It was never used in practice,
and hasn't been tested in VP9, so remove it.
Change-Id: Id450ec6904c6d06c1919508e7efc52d05cde5631
Static threshold results slightly up (+0.1% on derf), probably b/c
we now take the filter (sharp/lowpass) into account for the breakout
decision.
Change-Id: I9f597601da434205142afd05f32690e7ba8fd690
Combine superblock inter predictors into a unified function that
allows configurable block width and height. The inter predictions
of block sizes smaller than 16x16 are handled differently. To be
continued on merging them later.
Change-Id: I14075959dd5e221f00c205c99ca35c1c31ef728e
The intra predictor supports configurable block sizes. It can handle
intra prediction down to 4x4 sizes, when enabled in BLOCK_SIZE_TYPE.
Change-Id: I7399ec2512393aa98aadda9813ca0c83e19af854
This patch will use the dest buffer instead of the
predictor buffer. This will allow us in future commits
to remove the extra mem copy that occurs in the dequant
functions when eob == 0. We should also be able to remove
extra params that are passed into the dequant functions.
Change-Id: I7241bc1ab797a430418b1f3a95b5476db7455f6a
Merge various super_block_yrd and super_block_uvrd versions into one
common function that works for all sizes. Make transform size selection
size-agnostic also. This fixes a slight bug in the intra UV superblock
code where it used the wrong transform size for txsz > 8x8, and stores
the txsz selection for superblocks properly (instead of forgetting it).
Lastly, it removes the trellis search that was done for 16x16 intra
predictors, since trellis is relatively expensive and should thus only
be done after RD mode selection.
Gives basically identical results on derf (+0.009%).
Change-Id: If4485c6f0a0fe4038b3172f7a238477c35a6f8d3
Merge sb32x32 and sb64x64 functions; allow for rectangular sizes. Code
gives identical encoder results before and after. There are a few
macros for rectangular block sizes under the sbsegment experiment; this
experiment is not yet functional and should not yet be used.
Change-Id: I71f93b5d2a1596e99a6f01f29c3f0a456694d728
Clamp only the motion vectors inferred from neighboring reference
macroblocks. The motion vectors obtained through motion search in
NEWMV mode are constrained during the search process, which allows
a relatively larger referencing region than the inferred mvs.
Hence further clamping the best mv provided by the motion search may
affect the efficacy of NEWMV mode.
Synchronized the decoding process. The decoded mvs in NEWMV modes
should be guaranteed to fit in the effective range. Put a mv range
clamping function there for security purpose.
This improves the coding performance of high motion sequences, e.g.,
derf set:
foreman 0.233%
husky 0.175%
icd 0.135%
mother_daughter 0.337%
pamphlet 0.561%
stdhd set:
blue_sky 0.408%
city 0.455%
also saw sunflower goes down by -0.469%.
Change-Id: I3fcbba669e56dab779857a8126a91b926e899cb5
Start grouping data per-plane, as part of refactoring to support
additional planes, and chroma planes with other-than 4:2:0
subsampling.
Change-Id: Idb76a0e23ab239180c818025bae1f36f1608bb23
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
Almost all arguments for vp9_build_inter32x32_predictors_sb and
vp9_build_inter64x64_predictors_sb can be deduced from the first macroblock
argument.
Change-Id: I5d477a607586d05698d5b3b9b9bc03891dd3fe83
Adds an experiment to use a weighted prediction of two INTER
predictors, where the weight is one of (1/4, 3/4), (3/8, 5/8),
(1/2, 1/2), (5/8, 3/8) or (3/4, 1/4), and is chosen implicitly
based on consistency of the predictors to the already
reconstructed pixels to the top and left of the current macroblock
or superblock.
Currently the weighting is not applied to SPLITMV modes, which
default to the usual (1/2, 1/2) weighting. However the code is in
place controlled by a macro. The same weighting is used for Y and
UV components, where the weight is derived from analyzing the Y
component only.
Results (over compound inter-intra experiment)
derf: +0.18%
yt: +0.34%
hd: +0.49%
stdhd: +0.23%
The experiment suggests bigger benefit for explicitly signaled weights.
Change-Id: I5438539ff4485c5752874cd1eb078ff14bf5235a
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
Renaming Width to width, Height to height and Version to version in
several structs and function signatures.
Change-Id: I084c3f7e747cb2ce3345aff27a3dff9b13a87543
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
This fix resolves some of the mismatch issues being seen
recently. While this is the right thing to do when tiling
is used for this experiment, it is not the underlying cause
of the the mismatches.
Something else is causing writing outside of the allowable
frame area in the encoder leading to this mismatch.
Change-Id: If52c6f67555aa18ab8762865384e323b47237277
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
Adds probability updates for extra bits for the nzcs, code for
getting nzc stats, plus some minor cleanups and fixes.
Change-Id: If2814e7f04fb52f5025ad9f400f3e6c50a00b543
Increase the motion search range by 4x. Change MV_CLASS tree of the
entropy coding to allow two additional mv classes to cover the
extended motion vector limit. The codec determines the effective
motion search range conditioned on the actual frame dimension.
It provides coding gains:
stdhd 0.39%
yt 0.56%
hd 0.47%
Major coding performance gains are packed in several sequences with
intense motion activities, e.g., ped_1080p gains 7% at high bit-rates,
and on average 3%.
TODO: Need to further tune the rate control and motion search units.
Change-Id: Ib842540a6796fbee5a797809433ef6a477c6d78d
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 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
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
Ensure that all inter prediction goes through a common code path
that takes scaling into account. Removes a bunch of duplicate
1st/2nd predictor code. Also introduces a 16x8 mode for 8x8
MVs, similar to the 8x4 trick we were doing before. This has an
unexpected effect with EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH, so it's disabled in that
case for now.
Change-Id: Ia053e823a8bc616a988a0af30452e1e75a739cba
Rebased.
Remove the old matrix multiplication transform computation. The 16x16
ADST/DCT can be switched on/off and evaluated by setting ACTIVE_HT16
300/0 in vp9/common/vp9_blockd.h.
Change-Id: Icab2dbd18538987e1dc4e88c45abfc4cfc6e133f
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
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
This patch includes 4x4, 8x8, and 16x16 forward butterfly ADST/DCT
hybrid transform. The kernel of 4x4 ADST is sin((2k+1)*(n+1)/(2N+1)).
The kernel of 8x8/16x16 ADST is of the form sin((2k+1)*(2n+1)/4N).
Change-Id: I8f1ab3843ce32eb287ab766f92e0611e1c5cb4c1
Refactors the switchable filter search in the rd loop to
improve encode speed.
Uses a piecewise approximation to a closed form expression to estimate
rd cost for a Laplacian source with a given variance and quantization
step-size.
About 40% encode time reduction is achieved.
Results (on a feb 12 baseline) show a slight drop:
derf: -0.019%
yt: +0.010%
std-hd: -0.162%
hd: -0.050%
Change-Id: Ie861badf5bba1e3b1052e29a0ef1b7e256edbcd0
The 32x32 value in case of splitmv was uninitialized. this leads to
all kind of erratic behaviour down the line. Also fill in dummy values
for superblocks in keyframes (the values are currently unused, but we
run into integer overflows anyway, which makes detecting bad cases
harder). Lastly, in case we did not find any RD value at all, don't
set tx_diff to INT_MIN, but instead set it to zero (since if we couldn't
find a mode, it's unlikely that any particular transform would have made
that worse or better; rather, it's likely equally bad for all tx_sizes).
Change-Id: If236fd3aa2037e5b398d03f3b1978fbbc5ce740e
This issue breaks the encoding process of the codebase. The effect
emerges only in particular test sequence at certain bit-rates and
frame limits.
Change-Id: I02e080f2a49624eef9a21c424053dc2a1d902452
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
1. Added a bit in frame header to to indicate if a frame is encoded
in lossless mode, so decoder does not make the decision based on Q0
2. Minor changes to make sure that lossy coding works same as when
the lossless experiment is not enabled.
3. Renamed function pointers for transforms to be consistent, using
prefix fwd_txm and inv_txm for forward and inverse respectively
To encode in lossless mode, using "--lossless=1 --min-q=0 --max-q=0"
with vpxenc.
Change-Id: Ifae53b26d2ffbe378d707e29d96817b8a5e6c068
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
fixed format issues.
Implement the inverse 4x4 ADST using 9 multiplications. For this
particular dimension, the original ADST transform can be
factorized into simpler operations, hence is retained.
Change-Id: Ie5d9749942468df299ab74e90d92cd899569e960
Replace as_mv.{first, second} with a two element array, so that they
can easily be processed with an index variable.
Change-Id: I1e429155544d2a94a5b72a5b467c53d8b8728190
Cache the constant offset in one variable to prevent re-loading that
in each loop iteration, and mark the function as inline so we can use
the fact that the transform size is always known in the caller.
Almost 1% faster encoding overall.
Change-Id: Id78325a60b025057d8f4ecd9003a74086ccbf85a
Pass the current mb row and column around rather than the
recon_yoffset and recon_uvoffset, since those offsets will
change from predictor to predictor, based on the reference
frame selection.
Change-Id: If3f9df059e00f5048ca729d3d083ff428e1859c1
* changes:
Initial support for resolution changes on P-frames
Avoid allocating memory when resizing frames
Adds a test for the VP8E_SET_SCALEMODE control
Allows inter-frames to change resolution. Currently these are
almost equivalent to keyframes, as only intra prediction modes
are allowed, but without the other context resets that occur on
keyframes.
Change-Id: Icd1a2a5af0d9462cc792588427b0a1f5b12e40d3
This patch adds column-based tiling. The idea is to make each tile
independently decodable (after reading the common frame header) and
also independendly encodable (minus within-frame cost adjustments in
the RD loop) to speed-up hardware & software en/decoders if they used
multi-threading. Column-based tiling has the added advantage (over
other tiling methods) that it minimizes realtime use-case latency,
since all threads can start encoding data as soon as the first SB-row
worth of data is available to the encoder.
There is some test code that does random tile ordering in the decoder,
to confirm that each tile is indeed independently decodable from other
tiles in the same frame. At tile edges, all contexts assume default
values (i.e. 0, 0 motion vector, no coefficients, DC intra4x4 mode),
and motion vector search and ordering do not cross tiles in the same
frame.
t log
Tile independence is not maintained between frames ATM, i.e. tile 0 of
frame 1 is free to use motion vectors that point into any tile of frame
0. We support 1 (i.e. no tiling), 2 or 4 column-tiles.
The loopfilter crosses tile boundaries. I discussed this briefly with Aki
and he says that's OK. An in-loop loopfilter would need to do some sync
between tile threads, but that shouldn't be a big issue.
Resuls: with tiling disabled, we go up slightly because of improved edge
use in the intra4x4 prediction. With 2 tiles, we lose about ~1% on derf,
~0.35% on HD and ~0.55% on STD/HD. With 4 tiles, we lose another ~1.5%
on derf ~0.77% on HD and ~0.85% on STD/HD. Most of this loss is
concentrated in the low-bitrate end of clips, and most of it is because
of the loss of edges at tile boundaries and the resulting loss of intra
predictors.
TODO:
- more tiles (perhaps allow row-based tiling also, and max. 8 tiles)?
- maybe optionally (for EC purposes), motion vectors themselves
should not cross tile edges, or we should emulate such borders as
if they were off-frame, to limit error propagation to within one
tile only. This doesn't have to be the default behaviour but could
be an optional bitstream flag.
Change-Id: I5951c3a0742a767b20bc9fb5af685d9892c2c96f
Update the code to call the new convolution functions to do subpixel
prediction rather than the existing functions. Remove the old C and
assembly code, since it is unused. This causes a 50% performance
reduction on the decoder, but that will be resolved when the asm for
the new functions is available.
There is no consensus for whether 6-tap or 2-tap predictors will be
supported in the final codec, so these filters are implemented in
terms of the 8-tap code, so that quality testing of these modes
can continue. Implementing the lower complexity algorithms is a
simple exercise, should it be necessary.
This code produces slightly better results in the EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH
case, since the filter is now applied in only one direction when
the subpel motion is only in one direction. Like the previous code,
the filtering is skipped entirely on full-pel MVs. This combination
seems to give the best quality gains, but this may be indicative of a
bug in the encoder's filter selection, since the encoder could
achieve the result of skipping the filtering on full-pel by selecting
one of the other filters. This should be revisited.
Quality gains on derf positive on almost all clips. The only clip
that seemed to be hurt at all datarates was football
(-0.115% PSNR average, -0.587% min). Overall averages 0.375% PSNR,
0.347% SSIM.
Change-Id: I7d469716091b1d89b4b08adde5863999319d69ff
This commit makes the NearestMV match the chosen
best reference MV. It can be a 0,0 or non zero vector
which means the the compound nearest mv mode can
combine a 0,0 and a non zero vector.
Change-Id: I2213d09996ae2916e53e6458d7d110350dcffd7a
This is identical to the later decisions made in encode_superblock().
This commit doesn't actually change anything, but makes the mbmi state
more consistent between the RD loop and the final encode result.
Change-Id: I9e735afb7c5a52e5b61728cb88c67ef9b9bf59be
The RD loop would change the pointer after the first mode (DC) was tested,
leading to corrupt block objects being provided for the others. This
would essentially render the i8x8 predictor useless.
Change-Id: I16c5906ca64fb34878ac32ce59af8974e4582bb8
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 a flag to disable features that would inhibit frame parallel
decoding. This includes backward adaptation and MV sorting based
on search in ref frame buffer.
Also includes some minor clean-ups.
Change-Id: I434846717a47b7bcb244b37ea670c5cdf776f14d
Adds an error-resilient mode where frames can be continued
to be decoded even when there are errors (due to network losses)
on a prior frame. Specifically, backward updates are turned off
and probabilities of various symbols are reset to defaults at
the beginning of each frame. Further, the last frame's mvs are
not used for the mv reference list, and the sorting of the
initial list based on search on previous frames is turned off
as well.
Also adds a test where an arbitrary set of frames are skipped
from decoding to simulate errors. The test verifies (1) that if
the error frames are droppable - i.e. frame buffer updates have
been turned off - there are no mismatch errors for the remaining
frames after the error frames; and (2) if the error-frames are non
droppable, there are not only no decoding errors but the mismatch
PSNR between the decoder's version of the post-error frames and the
encoder's version is at least 20 dB.
Change-Id: Ie6e2bcd436b1e8643270356d3a930e8989ff52a5
Remove lst_fb_idx, gld_fb_idx, alt_fb_idx, refresh_last_frame,
refresh_golden_frame, refresh_alt_ref_frame from common. Gold/Alt are
encode side conventions. From the decoder's perspective, we want to be
dealing with numbered references.
Updates to active_ref 2 signal mode context switches, vestigial from
refresh_alt_ref_frame. This needs some clean up to make sense with
increased numbers of reference frames, as well as reimplementing the
swapping of alt/golden which was previously done using the
buffer-to-buffer copy mechanism removed in an earlier commit.
Change-Id: I7334445158b7666f9295d2a2dd22aa03f4485f58
These variables have the type int64_t, not long long. long long could
be a larger type than 64 bits. Emulate INT64_MAX for older versions of
MSVC, and remove the unreferenced vpx_ports/vpxtypes.h
Change-Id: Ideaca71838fcd3849d816d5ab17aa347c97d03b0
This experiment gives little gains and adds relatively much code
complexity (and it hinders other experiments), so let's get rid of
it.
Change-Id: Id25e79a137a1b8a01138aa27a1fa0ba4a2df274a
This prevents ill-defined behaviour, such as setting x->skip for a mode
that is excluded because of frame-level flags (e.g. filter selection,
compound prediction selection), then not breaking out of the RD loop
because the mode is not allowed, but keeping the flag on. Whatever mode
is iterated through next in the RD loop will then carry this flag, and
all sort of bad stuff happens, such as x->skip being set on intra pred
modes.
Change-Id: I5bec46b36e38292174acb1c564b3caf00a9b4b9a
This patch removes the old pred-filter experiment and replaces it
with one that is implemented using the switchable filter framework.
If the pred-filter experiment is enabled, three interopolation
filters are tested during mode selection; the standard 8-tap
interpolation filter, a sharp 8-tap filter and a (new) 8-tap
smoothing filter.
The 6-tap filter code has been preserved for now and if the
enable-6tap experiment is enabled (in addition to the pred-filter
experiment) the original 6-tap filter replaces the new 8-tap smooth
filter in the switchable mode.
The new experiment applies the prediction filter in cases of a
fractional-pel motion vector. Future patches will apply the filter
where the mv is pel-aligned and also to intra predicted blocks.
Change-Id: I08e8cba978f2bbf3019f8413f376b8e2cd85eba4
This is to add to the 64x64 transform experiment as an alternative to
a 64x64 DCT.
Two levels of wavelet decomposition is used on a 64x64 block, followed
by 16x16 DCT on the four lowest subbands. The highest three subbands
are left untransformed after the first level DWT.
Change-Id: I3d48d5800468d655191933894df6b46e15adca56
Mode selection for SBs could enter an infinite loop because
the interpolation filter mode index was not being reset
correctly.
Change-Id: I4bbe726f29ef5b6836e94884067c46084713cc11
Old Scheme:
When SWITCHABLE filter selection is enabled the encoder
evaluates the use of each interpolation filter type and
selects the best one to use at the MB level. A frame-
level flag can be set to force the use of a particular
filter type for all MBs in a frame if it is more efficient
to encode that way. The logic here involved a Q dependent
threshold that assumed that the second 8-tap filter was
a high-pass filter. However, this requires a trip around
the recode loop. If the frame-level flag indicates use
of a particular filter, the other filters are not
evaluated in the pick_mode loop.
New Scheme:
Each filter type is evaluated at the MB level and a record
of the best filter is kept, irrespective of what filter
is signaled at the frame-level. Once all MBs have been
encoded, a decision is made as to what frame-level mode
to set for the *next* frame. If one filter is used by 80%
or more of the MBs, then this filter is forced since it
is assumed that this will be more efficient if the
next frame has similar characteristics. i.e. there is a
one-frame lag between measuring the filter selection and
setting the frame-level mode to use.
Change-Id: I6a7e7ced8f27e120fafb99db2dc9c6293f8d20f7
Remove special case function cost_coeffs_2x2() and change function
cost_coeffs() to handle 2nd order haar block as it is handle all
other block types already.
Change-Id: I2aac6f81ee0ae9e03d6a8da4f8681d69b79ce41f
Various fixups to resolve issues when building vp9-preview under the more stringent
checks placed on the experimental branch.
Change-Id: I21749de83552e1e75c799003f849e6a0f1a35b07
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
For coefficients, use int16_t (instead of short); for pixel values in
16-bit intermediates, use uint16_t (instead of unsigned short); for all
others, use uint8_t (instead of unsigned char).
Change-Id: I3619cd9abf106c3742eccc2e2f5e89a62774f7da
In some cases intra modes in inter frames give
an over smoothed appearance. Especially with
noisy but flat content.
Also in some cases there were problems with key
frame sizing again with very flat but noisy content.
These are temporary changes to help alleviate the
visual problems but will almost certainly hurt metric
results especially at the very low data rate end.
Change-Id: I11549179a19277ffc283d9788bc70168f2a8bdc9
As suggested by Yaowu, we can use eob to reduce the complexity
of the vp9_ihtllm_c function. For the 1080p test clip used, the decoder
performance improved by 17%.
Change-Id: I32486f2f06f9b8f60467d2a574209aa3a3daa435
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
Some further changes and refactoring of mv
reference code and selection of center point for
searches. Mainly relates to not passing so many
different local copies of things around.
Some place holder comments.
Change-Id: I309f10ffe9a9cde7663e7eae19eb594371c8d055
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
Adds support for compound inter-intra prediction with superblocks.
Also, fixes a bug that disabled intra modes for superblocks.
Change-Id: I4d711317e1bc19df8c2f32dc645429f7fff31036
Allows switchbale filters to be used without mismatch when the
superblock experiment is on.
Also removes a spurious clamping code in decodemv.c which causes
rare encode/decode mismatches.
Change-Id: I809d9ee0b2859552b613500b539a615515b863ae
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
Support for gyp which doesn't support multiple objects in the same
static library having the same basename.
Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc
