1. Skip golden non-zeromv and newmv-last for bsize >= 16x16 if the
temporal variance obtained from choose_partitioning is very low.
2. Skip horz and vert INTRA mode for speed 8.
This change works best on the clips with little noise and with some
motion (e.g. gips_motion which has > 5% speed up). PSNR drop is 1.78%
on rtc test set, no obvious visual quality regression found.
Change-Id: Ib43b5b20e67809d03c5a6890818ddff59e1fc94a
On scene-cut detected frames (i.e., high_source_sad = 1), use
nonrd_pick_partition (over choose_part + select_part), as
the nonrd_pick partitioning is generally better.
Small positive increase in metrics on ytlive set (~0.5 - 1%).
Negligle overall speed decrease, as its only used on scene-cut frames.
Only affects 1 pass vbr mode, speed = 5.
Change-Id: I07c89cbdc75f5bb16eb8e0e2773ead0980d2de5c
Skip intra-mode and some inter-modes (newmv, nearmv, nearestmv) for
golden frame if the variance got from choose_partitioning is very low.
Only for 1 pass real-time CBR mode and bsize >= 32x32, it has ~2.5%
speed up with less than 0.1% PSNR drop for rtc test set. Don't see
visual regression.
Change-Id: I70efbc95a1007231ae36f02c5b2fbf6cd35077ad
Add control API VP9E_SET_TARGET_LEVEL that allows the encoder to
control the output bitstream level and/or keep level related
statistics.
Usage:
255 do not care about level (default)
0 keep level related stats only
10 target for level 1
11 target for level 1.1
.
.
.
62 target for level 6.2
Usage for vpxenc:
--target-level=0/255/10/11...
Change-Id: I31d1aeca19358b893e7577b4e63748c8e614034a
Move skin superblock force split out of this function as well
as some minor code refactors. Checked bitexact for different speed
settings and different resolutions.
Change-Id: I6078cbe88dd9ce6c0b69470a8a0a8f8d2274161b
Fix will reset the consec_zero_mv map on non-skipped blocks with non-zero mv.
Adjust thresholds on consec_zero_mv in noise estimation and skin detection,
as more possible reset on map means lower thresholds should be used.
Change-Id: Ibe8520057472b3609585260b51b6f95a38fb777d
In Aq mode 1 the segment and AQ delta for each block is based
on spatial variance. There may be a net imbalance between blocks
that have lower Q than the baseline value and those that have higher Q.
This patch monitors that imbalance and extends the allowed baseline
Q range for the frame to accommodate adjustment of that baseline value
to compensate.
Change-Id: Iae8a48c7c01fe2af94a141e149d03acf467237ca
So it can be used even with aq-mode=3 not enabled.
Also cleans up some code in the places where its used.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: Ib6b265308dbd483f691200da9a0be4da4b380dbc
This commit back ports the fix from
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/326940
It corrects the block partition context fetching in rate-distortion
optimization. It improves the average coding performance of speed 0:
derf 0.098%
hevcmr 0.102%
stdhd 0.282%
Change-Id: I8bcc6fe40ba5c6b50a6136daac116dcc738937ec
The double pointer in xd->mi handles this for us.
Cuts encode_suberblock()'s self time in half at rt speed 8.
Change-Id: I820dae24efdbf9a140bbeae82e4e2a5850317766
Reset the scale factors before build_inter_predictors.
Add datarate tests for 3 spatial layers, which exposed this issue.
Change-Id: I7f81efbe44345ecea9fdd5f639a4cca76aed3874
This commit fixes issue 1141. The issue was triggered in multi-tile
encoding. The change properly saves and restores the block context
information in the real-time mode selection process. It removes
several redundant memcpy operations in sub8x8 intra block mode search.
Change-Id: I35c9ad197f4bd500ec39b5fc833f052f19eee010
If a superblock contains alot of "skin" then force split
of 64x64 partition, and make some adjustments in mode selection.
This helps to reduce artifacts on moving face/skin areas at low bitrates.
Little/no change in metrics: avgPSNR/SSIM down by ~0.12%.
Small encoding time increase < 1%.
Change-Id: Ic57f52148c3716f391419fab0530d916e4c1d186
Changes to mode selection for 1 pass SVC mode:
use base layer motion vector, changes to intra-prediction.
Change-Id: I3e883aa04db521cfa026a0b12c9478ea35a344c9
Different quality levels are used for different regions in
the frame depending on how far they are vertically from the
center. Specifically, three segments are used based on the
mi_row index with respect number to the number of mi_rows in
the frame.
Change-Id: Ifc8b777bc58ea8521dffc4640360c67d99f8d381
For coding block sizes <=16X16, if the block is determined to be skin,
then always allow for that block to be candidate for refresh. So if that
block happens to be on the boost segment(s), segment won't get reset to 0
and delta-q will be applied.
PSNR/SSIM metrics neutral (little/no change) on RTC clips.
Speed increase small/negligible (< 1%).
Some visual improvement on faces in a few RTC clips.
Change-Id: I6bf0fce6f39d820b491ce05d7c017ad168fce7d6
Lower the threshold for splitting 32x32->16x16 based on average variance,
and add lower bound condition for this split to occur. This prevents
unneccassry splitting for areas with very low variance.
Change-Id: Ibeb33b3d993632c2019f296eb87ef3b7e3568189
For non-rd variannce partition, speed >= 5:
Adjustments to reduce dragging artifcat of background area near
slow moving boundary.
-Decrease base threshold under low source noise conditions.
-Add condition to split 64x64/32x32 based on average variances
of lower level blocks.
PSNR/SSIM metrics go down ~0.7/0.9% on average on RTC set.
Visually helps to reduce dragging artifact on some rtc clips.
Change-Id: If1f0a1aef1ddacd67464520ca070e167abf82fac
For non-rd variance partition: Adjust variance threhsold based
on noise level estimate. This change allows the adjustment to be
updated more frequently.
Change-Id: Ie2abf63bf3f1ee54d0bc4ff497298801fdb92b0d
For low resolutions, whem 4x4downsample is used for variance,
use the same force split (that is used for 8x8downsample) for 16x16 blocks.
No change in metrics. Small improvement visually.
Change-Id: I915b9895902d0b9a41e75d37fee1bf3714d2366d
For non-rd variance partition: only allow minmax computation
(which currently has no arm-neon optimization) for speeds < 8.
Performance loss is small: On RTC set with speed 8, few clips lose ~2/3%,
average loss is < 1%.
Change-Id: Ia9414f4d0b77dc83c3e73ca8de5d903f64b425ce
For denoising, and for noise level above threshold, re-evaluate
ZEROMV for mode selection after denoising.
Current change only does this check if selected best mode (before denoising)
was intra.
Change-Id: I4b1435b68d26c78f7597b995ee7bff0ddd5f9511
