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 max_partition_size and max_partition_size are set at the
beginning while setting speed features, and then adjusted at
SB level. Moving them to mb struct ensures there is a local
copy for each thread.
Change-Id: I7dd08dc918d9f772fcd718bbd6533e0787720ad4
This commit removes the cyclic aq mode dependency on
in_static_area and reworks the corresponding cut-off thresholds.
It improves the compression performance of speed -5 by 1.47% in
PSNR and 2.07% in SSIM, and the compression performance of speed
-6 by 3.10% in PSNR and 5.25% in SSIM. Speed wise, about 1% faster
in both settings at high bit-rates.
Change-Id: I1ffc775afdc047964448d9dff5751491ba4ff4a9
This commit removes unused header file vp9_onyxc_int.h and repeatedly
included file vpx_ports/mem.h from vp9_block.h
Change-Id: I400b210bd1da48f1880bd50a8f4a6e2c690e15a1
Adds various high bitdepth transform functions and tests.
Much of the changes are related to using typedefs tran_low_t
and tran_high_t for the final transform cofficients and intermediate
stages of the transform computation respectively rather than fixed
types int16_t/int. When vp9_highbitdepth configure flag is off,
these map tp int16_t/int32_t, but when the flag is on, they map
to int32_t/int64_t to make space for needed extra precision.
Change-Id: I3c56de79e15b904d6f655b62ffae170729befdd8
This commit allows the encoder to store outcomes of single reference
frame modes and compares them to decide if the inter prediction
filter, forward transform, and quantization can be skipped.
The compression performance of speed 3 is down
derf -0.364%
stdhd -0.198%
For test sequences, the speed 3 runtime is reduced
highway CIF 100 kbps, 51976 ms -> 45033 ms, 13% speed-up
stockholm 720p 1000 kbps, 71826 ms -> 67838 ms, 5.5% speed-up
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps, 154924 ms -> 150702 ms, 2.6% speed-up
Change-Id: I5aa26f918d2b4b5197a2c0afa2779319f1c88e44
This commit extends the sse and forward transform computation flag
to support the case 64x64 blocks where there are 4 32x32 2D-DCT
blocks.
Change-Id: I86a3e805dfaa0f3abd812f590520c71aa0e40473
This commit enables encoder to select fast forward transform and
quantization path according to the prediction residual sse/variance,
in the rate-distortion optimization scheme.
Change-Id: Ief9fc3844fd4107166d401970e800c6e5ce2b5fe
This commit re-designs the quantization process for transform
coefficient blocks of size 4x4 to 16x16. It improves compression
performance for speed 7 by 3.85%. The SSSE3 version for the
new quantization process is included.
The average runtime of the 8x8 block quantization is reduced
from 285 cycles -> 255 cycles, i.e., over 10% faster.
Change-Id: I61278aa02efc70599b962d3314671db5b0446a50
Before encoding a frame, calculate and store each 16x16 block's
variance of source difference between last and current frame.
Find partitioning threshold T for the frame from its variance
histogram, and then use T to make partition decisions.
Comparing with fixed 16x16 partitioning, rtc set test showed an
overall psnr gain of 3.242%, and ssim gain of 3.751%. The best
psnr gain is 8.653%.
The overall encoding speed didn't change much. It got faster for
some clips(for example, 12% speedup for vidyo1), and a little
slower for others.
Also, a minor modification was made in datarate unit test.
Change-Id: Ie290743aa3814e83607b93831b667a2a49d0932c
This commit enables a fast path computational flow for forward
transformation. It checks the sse and variance of prediction
residuals and decides if the quantized coefficients are all
zero, dc only, or more. It then selects the corresponding coding
path in the forward transformation and quantization stage.
It is currently enabled in rtc coding mode. Will do it for rd
coding mode next.
In speed -6, the runtime for pedestrian_area 1080p at 1000 kbps
goes down from 14234 ms to 13704 ms, i.e., about 4% speed-up.
Overall coding performance for rtc set is changed by -0.18%.
Change-Id: I0452da1786d59bc8bcbe0a35fdae9f623d1d44e1
The final goal is eventually to get rid of both itxm_add and fwd_txm4x4.
This patch does it in the decoder.
Change-Id: Ibb3db57efbcbb1ac387c6742538a9fcf2c6f24a5
This commit enables a background detection approach for adaptive
quantizer control. It combines the cyclic refresh pattern and the
background information to determine the segment id for adaptive
quantizer selection, prior to the non-RD mode decision process.
It hence allows proper quantization information update for a more
precise rate-distortion modeling in the non-RD mode decision.
The compression performance of speed -5 for rtc set is improved
by 2.5%, at no speed change.
Change-Id: Ic3713e8ed9185b403b5b1679d19dabd57506d452
This patch sets up a quad_tree structure (pc_tree) for holding all of
pick_mode_context data we use at any square block size during encoding
or picking modes. That includes contexts for 2 horizontal and 2 vertical
splits, one none, and pointers to 4 sub pc_tree nodes corresponding
to split. It also includes a pointer to the current chosen partitioning.
This replaces code that held an index for every level in the pick
modes array including: sb_index, mb_index,
b_index, ab_index.
These were used as stateful indexes that pointed to the current pick mode
contexts you had at each level stored in the following arrays
array ab4x4_context[][][],
sb8x4_context[][][], sb4x8_context[][][], sb8x8_context[][][],
sb8x16_context[][][], sb16x8_context[][][], mb_context[][], sb32x16[][],
sb16x32[], sb32_context[], sb32x64_context[], sb64x32_context[],
sb64_context
and the partitioning that had been stored in the following:
b_partitioning, mb_partitioning, sb_partitioning, and sb64_partitioning.
Prior to this patch before doing an encode you had to set the appropriate
index for your block size ( switch statement), update it ( up to 3
lookups for the index array value) and then make your call into a recursive
function at which point you'd have to call get_context which then
had to do a switch statement based on the blocksize, and then up to 3
lookups based upon the block size to find the context to use.
With the new code the context for the block size is passed around directly
avoiding the extraneous switch statements and multi dimensional array
look ups that were listed above. At any level in the search all of the
contexts are local to the pc_tree you are working on (in?).
In addition in most places code that used to call sub functions and
then check if the block size was 4x4 and index was > 0 and return
now don't preferring instead to call the right none function on the inside.
Change-Id: I06e39318269d9af2ce37961b3f95e181b57f5ed9
Delete code relating to the old VP8_TUNE_SSIM flag
as this code does not currently work and is largely made
redundant in VP9 by the various AQ modes.
Change-Id: I71f28e1f680573d296422254489000678552b17b
* Reduce the number of short cirtcuit checks by pre-computing and combining like checks.
* Postpone non-trivial initializations until after the shortcircuits are evaluated.
* Add some consts and const pointers.
No change to the actual results of the call or output of the encoder.
Change-Id: Ie44c4702aec6e08cfe0b8b0ba3cd6b57206478d1
* Avoid unnecessary type erasure
* Prune unused/duplicate fields from struct rdcost_block_args
* Make struct rdcost_block_args a local
Change-Id: I4f1fd4837ccd028bbfe727191ee8d69f0463b7e5
This commit setups a test framework for real-time coding. It enables
a light motion search for non-RD mode decision purpose.
Change-Id: I8bec656331539e963c2b685a70e43e0ae32a6e9d
The feature undergoes prior assumption that the recursive partition
size search from 4x4 to 64x64, hence utilizing information from small
blocks to determine early termination in large block rate-distortion
optimization search. The current codebase is now going from top down.
The previous function might go with not properly initialized values,
hence removed.
Tested on pedestrian_area_1080p at 4000 kbps running under speed 2.
No visible difference in runtime observed.
Change-Id: I553df415c6191413762db7ae34e8790c71d8118e
This commit takes a preliminary attempt to refine the motion search
control. It detects the SAD associated with mv predictor per reference
frame, and based on which to determine whether the encoder wants to
reduce the motion search range (if the predicted mv provides fairly
small SAD), or to skip the current reference frame (if there exists
another ref frame that gives much smaller SAD cost).
This feature is turned on in the settings of speed 1 and above.
In speed 1, compression performance changed
derf -0.018%
yt -0.043%
hd -0.045%
stdhd -0.281%
speed-up
pedestrian_area_1080p at 4000 kbps 100 frames
199651ms -> 188846ms (5.5% speed-up)
blue_sky_1080p at 6000 kbps
443531ms -> 415239ms (6.3% speed-up)
In speed 2, compression performance changed
derf -0.026%
yt -0.090%
hd -0.055%
stdhd -0.210%
speed-up
pedstrian 113949ms -> 108855ms (4.5% speed-up)
blue_sky 271057ms -> 257322ms (5% speed-up)
Change-Id: I1b74ea28278c94fea329d971d706d573983d810d
Buffer the SSE of prediction residuals in the rate-distortion
optimization loop of a given block. This information would be used
for later encoding control.
Change-Id: If4e63f3462490513c48be9407d3327c8dd438367
This commit enables an adaptive prediction filter type selection
for sub8x8 block sizes. In speed 1, it re-uses the filter type of
collocated 8x8 block if it is tested in the rate-distortion optimization
loop, for the sub8x8 blocks. Otherwise, it runs the normal test
over all the three filter types. In speed 2, it re-uses the 8x8
block's prediction filter type, if available. Otherwise, force it
to be EIGHTTAP.
Compression and speed performance wise:
speed 1
derf -0.266%
yt -0.138%
bus at 2000 kbps: 33766ms -> 30451ms (10% speed-up)
football at 600 kbps: 48173ms -> 43786ms (9% speed-up)
speed 2
derf -0.026%
yt +0.134%
bus at 2000 kbps: 18973ms -> 17698ms (6% speed-up)
football at 600 kbps: 26748ms -> 25096ms (6% speed-up)
Change-Id: I77e097533b969fd3472147225fa79fc98095d342
