This speed feature has been deprecated in both yt and rtc coding
modes. This commit removes the related operations.
Change-Id: I079c79c6adafe45581af2ebf8b98faebcface1ce
This commit re-designs the recursive partition search scheme in
rtc speed -5. It first checks if the current block is under cyclic
refresh mode. If so, apply recursive partition search. Otherwise,
perform sub-sampled pixel based partition selection. When the
pre-selection finds the partition size should be 32x32 or above,
use the partition size directly. Otherwise, apply partition search
at nearby levels around the preset partition size.
It is enabled in speed -5. The compression performance of rtc
speed -5 is improved by 9.4%. Speed wise, the run-time goes slower
from 1% to 10%.
nik_720p, 1000 kbps
33220 b/f, 38.977 dB, 10109 ms -> 33200 b/f, 39.119 dB, 10210 ms
vidyo1_720p, 1000 kbps
16536 b/f, 40.495 dB, 10119 ms -> 16536 b/f, 40.827 dB, 11287 ms
Change-Id: I65adba352e3adc03bae50854ddaea1b421653c6c
Currently, the tokens for a tile are stored immediately after its
preceding tile, which causes a dependency. This is unnecessary
since we always allocate enough memory for tokens. Removing
the dependency allows token writing done in parallel. This patch
doesn't change encoding result.
Change-Id: I7365a6e5e2c2833eb14377c37e1503c9d0f26543
Compare the estimated rate and distortion to the thresholds scaled
according to the operating block size and determine if further
split partition search will be run. The compression performance of
speed -5 is changed by -0.074%. The encoding speed is 10% - 15%
faster.
vidyo1 720p
16545 b/f, 40.492 dB, 11475 ms -> 16535 b/f, 40.486 dB, 10100 ms
nik720p
16624 b/f, 36.310 dB, 10071 ms -> 16617 b/f, 36.313 dB, 8346 ms
Change-Id: Ic9197ab5761279ae55d2fb7813b2af0e0db497b8
Reduce the intra_cost_penalty for non-rd mode,
and some updates to VAR_BASED_PARTITION.
Visual tests show some improvement at Speed 6, for RTC clips.
Change-Id: If9090daf7aed14906a32d931a538ab544bbca606
This commit replaces the use of copy_partitioning with
choose_partitioning based on the sse of subsamped pixels, which
provides significantly better coding performance and runs at
similar speed, as compared to copy_partitioning. It improves rtc
speed 5 coding performance by 3%.
Change-Id: I52d3682a12dce0147f5e52383a594fc242ca3228
This commit makes a struct that contains rate value, distortion
value, and the rate-distortion cost. The goal is to provide a
better interface for rate-distortion related operation. It is
first used in rd_pick_partition and saves a few RDCOST calculations.
Change-Id: I1a6ab7b35282d3c80195af59b6810e577544691f
The concept:
There's too much noise in source pixels for variance and at low bitrate
the reconstructed looks nothing like the source so we have problems
getting good partitionings with either. This skirts the issue by using
a box blur scaled down version for variance calculations. To compare
against source_var_ moved keyframe to be rd based like source_var.
Change-Id: Ie3babdbfadae324b7b5a76bea192893af27f0624
The functions b_width_log2 and b_height_log2 only do direct
table fetch. This commit unifies such use cases by using the
table directly and removes these functions.
Change-Id: I3103fc6ba959c1182886a2799d21b8b77c8a7b6b
This commit adds proper initialization of segment id for variance AQ
mode in non-rd coding path. It fixes the enc/dec mismatch issue of
rt=7 with --aq-mode=1, as reported in issue #816
Change-Id: I02fa41b96345bf2e66077d5ea553f85ba800f7bb
This commit enables the encoder to skip split partition search if
the bigger block size has all non-zero quantized coefficients in low
frequency area and the total rate cost is below a certain threshold.
It logarithmatically scales the rate threshold according to the
current block size. For speed 3, the compression performance loss:
derf -0.093%
stdhd -0.066%
Local experiments show 4% - 20% encoding speed-up for speed 3.
blue_sky_1080p, 1500 kbps
51051 b/f, 35.891 dB, 67236 ms ->
50554 b/f, 35.857 dB, 59270 ms (12% speed-up)
old_town_cross_720p, 1500 kbps
14431 b/f, 36.249 dB, 57687 ms ->
14108 b/f, 36.172 dB, 46586 ms (19% speed-up)
pedestrian_area_1080p, 1500 kbps
50812 b/f, 40.124 dB, 100439 ms ->
50755 b/f, 40.118 dB, 96549 ms (4% speed-up)
mobile_calendar_720p, 1000 kbps
10352 b/f, 35.055 dB, 51837 ms ->
10172 b/f, 35.003 dB, 44076 ms (15% speed-up)
Change-Id: I412e34db49060775b3b89ba1738522317c3239c8
This patch re-enabled the feature in Pengchong's patch
(commit 1286126073). Originally, it
was turned on while use_lastframe_partitioning > 0(not used anymore).
Now it was added as a feature, and turned on while speed >= 2.
As described in the original patch, this feature helps speed up the
slideshows in YouTube.
Change-Id: I1b0f18d65da1ee1c8d1e117dabba910c5207c471
Simplified the code and removed some code that was not used anymore.
This patch didn't change encoding result.
Change-Id: I7e54a74c8f35a6726dfc8a1c55b337448b7ea124
mi_grid_* are arrays of pointer to pointer. They save the pointers that point
to the MIs in cm->mi. But they are unnecessary and complicated. The original
goal was to remove MODE_INFO_t copy. But with an extra MODE_INFO_t pointer
inside MODE_INFO_t, same goal could be achieved.
This commit totally removes the mi_grid_* structures. But there are still
many dummy MODE_INFO_t inside cm->mi which are a waste of memory. Next commit
will do on-demand MODE_INFO_t allocation in order to save these memories.
Change-Id: I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6
The use of use_lastframe_partitioning is totally removed in good-
quality encoding. Its usage in real-time encoding needs to be
evaluated to see if it can be removed too.
The Borg tests at speed 4 showed:
stdhd set: 0.220% psnr gain, 0.166% ssim gain;
derf set: 0.329% psnr gain, 0.476% ssim gain.
Speed test on selected clips showed 1.54% speedup.(Worst case:
pedestrian_area_1080p25.y4m, speed loss: 1.5%)
Change-Id: I1c844d329b0b5678558439b887297c1be7ddab00
This commit removes the special case for key frame, as transform size
decision is controlled by the appropriate speed feature for all lossy
coding modes: tx_size_search_method.
Change-Id: I9677171e3f2432ec23705f7c5ea8170dd4562fae
In the partition search, the encoder checks all possible
partitionings in the superblock's partition search tree.
This patch proposed a set of criteria for partition search
early termination, which effectively decided whether or
not to terminate the search in current branch based on the
"skippable" result of the quantized transform coefficients.
The "skippable" information was gathered during the
partition mode search, and no overhead calculations were
introduced.
This patch gives significant encoding speed gains without
sacrificing the quality.
Borg test results:
1. At speed 1,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.074%, ssim: +0.093%;
derf set: psnr: -0.024%, ssim: +0.011%;
2. At speed 2,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.033%, ssim: +0.100%;
derf set: psnr: -0.062%, ssim: +0.003%;
3. At speed 3,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.060%, ssim: +0.190%;
derf set: psnr: -0.064%, ssim: -0.002%;
4. At speed 4,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.070%, ssim: +0.143%;
derf set: psnr: -0.104%, ssim: +0.039%;
The speedup ranges from several percent to 60+%.
speed1 speed2 speed3 speed4
(1080p, 100f):
old_town_cross: 48.2% 23.9% 20.8% 16.5%
park_joy: 11.4% 17.8% 29.4% 18.2%
pedestrian_area: 10.7% 4.0% 4.2% 2.4%
(720p, 200f):
mobcal: 68.1% 36.3% 34.4% 17.7%
parkrun: 15.8% 24.2% 37.1% 16.8%
shields: 45.1% 32.8% 30.1% 9.6%
(cif, 300f)
bus: 3.7% 10.4% 14.0% 7.9%
deadline: 13.6% 14.8% 12.6% 10.9%
mobile: 5.3% 11.5% 14.7% 10.7%
Change-Id: I246c38fb952ad762ce5e365711235b605f470a66
