Only affects speed 8.
Make changes to copy partition to fix a bug in setting microblock
offset. Avg PSNR shows 0.02% gain on rtc_derf and 0.08% loss on rtc.
Change-Id: I61c3e5914dde645331344388e7437e5638acd4f3
The modified error was a derivative of the "coded_error"
that was used to allocate bits between different frames on the
assumption that the allocation should be linear in terms of this
modified error. I.e. a frame with double the modified error score
should all things being equal get double the number of bits. The
code also included upper and lower caps derived from input
VBR parameters.
This patch improves the initial calculation of the clip mean error
(now called "mean_mod_score" as it is no longer a prediction error)
used as the midpoint for the rate distribution function and normalizes
the output "modified scores" scores such that 1.0 indicates a frame
in the middle of the distribution. The VBR upper and lower caps are
then applied directly to a frame's normalized score.
This refactoring is intended to make it easier to drop in alternative
distribution functions or to base the rate allocation on a corpus wide
midpoint (rather than the clip mean).
Change-Id: I4fb09de637e93566bfc4e022b2e7d04660817195
Most existing first pass stats are stored in a form normalized to a
macro-block scale. However the error scores for intra / inter etc were
stored as frame level values but mainly used as MB level values.
This change fixes that. Normalized per MB values make comparisons
between different formats easier and in any case this is usually what is
wanted.
An change in results should be limited to slight differences in rounding.
*** Change after patch 8 +2 requiring new approval.
Final pre-submit testing showed one 4K clip with above expected change.
Investigation showed this was due to a value used to test for ultra low intra
complexity in key frame detection. This was a per frame not per MB value but
also did not scale with frame size. Replacement with a small per MB value
(based on original per frame value and cif frame size) resolved the KF detection
problem.
Also converted kf_group_error_left to a double in line with other error values
to reduce rounding problems in KF group bit allocation
All clips and sets now show nominal (or 0) change as expected.
Change-Id: Ic2d57980398c99ade2b7380e3e6ca6b32186901f
Move the tran_low_t helper functions to a new file. Additional
load/store functions will be added here.
Change-Id: I52bf652c344c585ea2f3e1230886be93f5caefc3
Increase the partition and acskip thresholds for temporal
enhancement layers.
~1-2% speedup, with negligible loss in quality.
Change-Id: Id527398a05855298ad9ddac10ada972482415627
For SVC 1 pass non-rd pickmode, the interpolation filter for the
upsampling of the golden (spatial) reference was not being explicitly
set and instead was takin gwhatever value was set in the previous
mode/block (which would be either EIGHTTAP or EIGHTAP_SMOOTH).
Fix it to the default EIGHTTAP for now, to be updated/selected
adaptively in a later change.
Minor adjustmemt to rate targeting thresholds in datarate unittests.
Change-Id: I52085048674072c6cfb7163e11e9a2658d773826
A more detailed explanation of the experimentation
leading to this change can be found in:-
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/13lsYhxgPyxUHvEess6wg9nikaonIZKY9Ak_Lpafv5Mo/edit?usp=sharing
This change gives gains across all our standard test sets for
overall psnr, ssim, fast ssim and psnr-HVS.
Values expressed as % reduction in bitrate.
Low res set -0.257, -0.192, -0.173, -0.101
Mid res set -0.233, -0.336, -0.367, -0.139
High res set -0.999, -1.039, -1.111, -0.567
NetFlix 2K set -0.734, -0.174, -0.389, -0.820
Netflix 4K set -0.814, -0.485, -0.796, -0.839
Change-Id: Ie981fb3c895c9dfcfc8682640d201a86375db5c8
Speed up for speed 0.
Reduce 10+% of encoding time for hdres in speed 0,
with less than 0.1% PSNR loss.
Compute total difference of previous and current frame context probability
model. If the diff is less than the threshold, skip recoding the frame.
Borg test (positive number means performance loss):
lowres midres hdres
PSNR: 0.030 0.032 0.065
Local speed test: bitrate set at 1200
blue_sky pedestrian rush_hour
Encoding time: -10.0% -16.5% -16.5%
Change-Id: I4e2d200ea3115d48b2c3e890143596b31b8ef9e9
When the noise estimate is forced off due to large motion,
reset the counter and set smaller window for next estimate.
Change-Id: Ifa4ec95396134173a00d48353ad52f1b6a40c217
Add option in SVC to set the filter type and phase for
the frame level downsampling filters.
For 3 spatial layers: set downsampling filter type to bilinear
and set phase to 8, for lowest spatial layer.
Change-Id: Id81f4b1ba93db19c1cd37b6a46d1281a2c61bc43
Base the condition on the resolution of the spatial layer.
And remove restriction on scaling factor.
Change-Id: Iad00177ce364279d85661654bff00ce7f48a672e
For lowest spatial layer, in 3 layer SVC, set the
downsampling filtertype to get averaging filter.
Needed for reducing aliasing on low-res layer,
small increase in overall encoder time.
Change-Id: Ia31460123bd91b72eca49b46dd924b9f226d4563
Adjust thresholds for noise estimation, for resolutions above VGA.
Tends to push cleaner/low noise clips to LowLow state.
No change in RTC metrics.
Change-Id: I739ca6b797d0a60ccd1c6c6a2775269b1f007e5e
Set noise level to kLowLow for high motion low res clips.
Change the normalization in noise metric for low res.
Reduce the initial time-window for all resolutions.
Change-Id: Iaed39dbb50b205cd9c735dc5b84822304fb01987
Add 31bit pairs before unpacking in x86 block error code
AVX2 code provides a very minor performance improvement.
BUG=webm:1210
Change-Id: I4c82308eaf65741dca2f5c6db9be9c85f905073a
For SVC 1 pass real-time: add condition to skip the
golden (spatial) reference mode in non-rd pickmode.
Condition is to skip golden if the sse of zeromv-last mode
is below threshold. And change order in ref_mode_set_svc
to make sure golden zeromv is tested after last-nearest.
Speedup ~3-4% with little/negligible quality loss.
Change-Id: I6cbe314a93210454ba2997945f714015f1b2fca3
Approximates division using multiply and shift.
Speeds up both sizes (8x8 and 16x16) by 30 times.
Fix the call sites to use the RTCD function.
Delete sse2 and mips implementation. They were based on a previous
implementation of the filter. It was changed in Dec 2015:
ece4fd5d22
BUG=webm:1378
Change-Id: I0818e767a802966520b5c6e7999584ad13159276
Don't force disabling of adaptive_rd_thresh for realtime when
row_mt_bit_exact is set.
Row based adaptive rd is made usable in CL
454882(https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/454882) for REALTIME.
Change-Id: Ief023414f0fd6eb86f299dd46ae58f4436875af5
Add tentative max cpb size values for levels 5.2 and up. Otherwise
encoding will fail when targeting for these levels.
Change-Id: Ib7e0ba4b9836ea1ac900b6822543812843d48463
107de19698 changes the encoder alt-ref selection behavior. Assuming
min_gf_interval = max_gf_interval = 4, the frame order would be
frm_1 arf_1 frm_2 frm_3 frm_4 frm_5 arf_2 before 107de19698;
frm_1 arf_1 frm_2 frm_3 frm_4 arf_2 frm_5 after 107de19698.
This patch reverts such alt-ref placement change.
Change-Id: I93a4a65036575151286f004d455d4fcea88a1550
Make some speed setting changes for temporal enhancement layers,
and remove the switch in subpel_force_stop for the aggressive_base_mv
in non-rd pickmode.
Gain some 2-3% speed with little/negligible quality loss.
Change-Id: I3e2a7f80ff45f38c0a6ceb01b34dbca2f53edbf0
For speed >= 8 and color_sensitivity not set, skip the transform
skipping test in UV planes.
Add a new condition to check noise level to skip chroma check
for speed >= 8 if y_sad is high.
1~2% speedup on ARM for speed 8.
Borg tests show neutral results in both rtc and rtc_derf.
Change-Id: Idecd3ff6e28c97757a43bb6f3a7082c85f72109c
Add a low-variance high-sumdiff to the superblock content state
and use it to limit the mv and bias some decisions in non-rd pickmode.
Only affects speed >= 6.
Reduces artifact for lighting changes.
Small/no difference in metrics on RTC set.
Change-Id: Ic84b2379fe0ae3fa71ae826ee6bae3eaf551a25b
This patch followed allow_exhaustive_searches feature modification and
continued to modify the encoder to achieve the determinism in the row
based multi-threaded encoding. While row-mt = 1 and using multiple
threads, the adaptive feature in encoder was disabled, which gave
BDRate gain(at speed 1, -0.6% ~ -0.7%; at speed 2, -0.46% ~ -0.59%),
but some encoder speed losses(7% ~ 10% at speed 1 and 3% ~ 6% at
speed 2). These speed losses were acceptable considering the speed
gains obtained from row-mt.
Change-Id: I60d87a25346ebc487a864b57d559f560b7e398bb
A previous patch turned on allow_exhaustive_searches feature only for
FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content. This patch further modified the feature
by removing the exhaustive search limit, and made it no longer adaptive.
As a result, the 2 counts that recorded the number of motion searches
were removed, which helped achieve the determinism in the row based
multi-threading encoding. Tests showed that this patch didn't cause
the encoder much slower.
Used exhaustive_searches_thresh for this speed feature, and removed
allow_exhaustive_searches. Also, refactored the speed feature code
to follow the general speed feature setting style.
Change-Id: Ib96b182c4c8dfff4c1ab91d2497cc42bb9e5a4aa
The more aggressive settings should only be used when denoise_svc
condition is satisfied (which means top spatial layer).
Change-Id: Ia8e3515b27f31bf21b1976ca80a2fa826daece3a
In non-rd pickmode (speed >= 5), avoid duplication of computations in
model_rd_for_sb_y when the speed feature use_simple_block_yrd is
enabled (or for high bitdepth build under certain conditions).
QVGA, VGA and HD have 1.23%, 2.68% and 1.7% speedup on ARM for speed 8,
respectively.
Encoding results are bitexact for speed >= 5.
Change-Id: I3f9130810c21439f5ad7e159e21cb2243dcd05f1
The allow_exhaustive_searches feature improves the encoding quality
of FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content a lot. For non-FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION
content, the quality test result is almost neutral. This patch makes
this feature to be used only for FC_GRAPHICS_ANIMATION content.
The motivation of doing that is to make this feature no longer adaptive,
which will be implemented in the following patch.
Change-Id: Ic911df6dd757402b6480789cc247801e99840369
Replace by CAST_TO_BYTEPTR/SHORTPTR.
The rule is: if a short ptr is casted to a byte ptr, any offset
operation on the byte ptr must be doubled. We do this by casting to
short ptr first, adding offset, then casting back to byte ptr.
BUG=webm:1388
Change-Id: I9e18a73ba45ddae58fc9dae470c0ff34951fe248
The scaling filter with zero shift will give sub-sampling for
2x downsampling. Allow for a phase shift to get an averaging filter.
Usage is for source scaling in 1 pass SVC mode for 1:2 downscale.
Reduces aliasing in downsampled image.
Keep the phase to 0/off for now.
Change-Id: Ic547ea0748d151b675f877527e656407fcf4d51e
This condiiton is not needed as key_frame should set the refresh
of the reference frames, but good to have for clarity in condition.
Change-Id: Icf9838e7e4f0ff5cf0a9562ae3b5d6c7e6f78702
This reverts commit 863f860bfc.
This causes encoder / decoder mismatches in various
VP9/DatarateTestVP9Large.BasicRateTargeting3TemporalLayers tests
BUG=webm:1408
Change-Id: Ic200c39d7ed9c0b0247ef562f5d6f7b2625f7e14
For low resolutions (<= CIF): use quarter-pixel and simple_block_yrd.
~5% gain on RTC_derf.
~6-7% slowdown on ARM.
Change-Id: I4439ebd1116b9decac04786503f978840b68a60c
Fix to avoid getting stuck at very low Q even
though content is changing, which can happen for --min-q=0.
Fix is to more aggressively increase active_worst_quality
when detecting significant rate_deviation at very low Q.
Change will only affect 1 pass VBR for --min-q < 4, so no
change in ytlive metrics for --min-q >= 4.
Change-Id: I4dd77dd7c08a30a4390da0ff2c8bda6fccfa76d7
Useful for SVC, where the top layer enhancement frames may
not update any reference buffers, as is the case for the
patterns in the 1 pass CBR SVC when #temporal_layers > 1.
~3% encoder speedup for SVC patterns with temporal layers
in 1 pass CBR mode.
Updated the SVC datarate tests for the mismatch frames.
Set the frame-dropper off in some tests with #temporal_layers > 1
so we can correctly set #mismatch frames. Adjusted rate target
threshold for tests where frame-dropper was turned off.
Change-Id: Ia0c142f02100be0fed61cd2049691be9c59d6793
The MV unit test revealed an integer overflow issue in vp9_mcomp.c.
This was caused if the MV was very large. In mv_err_cost(), when
mv->row = 8184, mv->col = 8184 and ref_mv is 0, mv_cost = 34363
and error_per_bit = 132412, causing the overflow.
BUG=webm:1406
Change-Id: I35f8299f22f9bee39cd9153d7b00d0993838845e
Set adaptive_rd_thresh to 2 when simple block yrd is not used.
Fix regression caused by computing y sad without
int_pro_motion_estimation on low res motion clips.
Overall 0.07% quality loss on rtc_derf.
Change only affects low res on speed 8.
Change-Id: Ic6a188a56529f1034d6431005fb4b0e24e8a7e27
For speed 5, 1 pass CBR: Don't use the nonrd_pick_partition
on the segment, rather use choose_partitioning followed by
nonrd_select_partition (as is done on base segment).
Little/no quality loss on RTC and RTC_derf (< 0.3%),
speedup of at least 5%.
Change-Id: I5273d5f950e60adf5e437b4ca8c4f63964641e83
If the noise estimation is avoided due to large motion,
the last_source for denoising should still be updated.
Change-Id: I67155ea7dbe9ac2785978e64a27bdafd7d57aac0
To reduce refresh on partial super-blocks on boundary,
for noisy input. Reduces some artifacts on noisy input.
Change-Id: I10b5808a296874e08c7f378b3df58466591d8dbe
Edit
Move the condition for effectively disabling the denoising
for speed 5 into the vp9_denoiser_denoise().
This is cleaner, and also moving the condition into vp9_denoiser_denoise
will keep the denoiser buffer updated with the current source.
This allows for more consistent behavior if speed is changed midstream.
Change-Id: Ia001f591c56e454bf724c3ae73c024badb183ef8
To prevent the motion vector out of range bug, added a motion vector unit
test in VP9. In the 4k video encoding, always forced to use extreme motion
vectors and also encouraged to use INTER modes. In the decoding, checked if
the motion vector was valid, and also checked the encoder/decoder mismatch.
The tests showed that this unit test could reveal the issue we saw before.
Change-Id: I0a880bd847dad8a13f7fd2012faf6868b02fa3b4
Temporal denoiser runs in non-rd pickmode, so it is only used
for speed >= 5. Regression exists for speed 5, due to use of
reference_partition (which use non-rd pickmode for partitioning).
Avoid denoising for now at speed 5.
Change-Id: I74a74d2e1404d7cfd33dcf4ec06dd2e503256cf0
Base the low_content_frame metric on the motion vectors,
and adjust the logic for preventing golden update.
Small change in behavior: small positive gain (~0.2-1%) on clips
with high activity.
Change-Id: I0b861c8e9666cd82b45cde5ee57ee8a1e5ab453c
Code cleanup: merged two functions that were doing postencode
update for cylic refresh, remove some unused code and fix comments.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I9be0d7e346d34dec29bf4e5bb380a7bf81c8480a
BUG=webm:1397
(yunqingwang)
To verify that this patch wouldn't cause much performance change,
the Borg tests were run. Here was the result:
avg_psnr overall_psnr ssim
hdres: -0.002 0.006 0.013
midres: 0 0 0
lowres: 0 0 0
Change-Id: Iae395ae7b741e0513cf5bab9dcace110b792a67d
The row mt sync read uses sync_range = 1, and wouldn't work if we want
to use a sync_range that is greater than 1. To make it work, this sync
read code is modified. Pass in col instead of col - 1 to make it
consistent with other row mt code in VP9, and then add 1 in "while"
codition.
Change-Id: I4a0e487190ac5d47b8216368da12d80fec779c1a
Issue/bug happens for denoising with spatial layers, where
the golden (spatial) reference is used in pickmode, but
denoising is only done wrt to last (temporal).
Fix is to make sure set_ref_ptrs is set before build predictors
in denoiser.
Change-Id: I793cf441341edf7c4a88b8ab1e1b22b3cb0eb508
Temporary override to condition for disallowing intra-search in SVC,
since golden (spatial) reference is currently suppressed due to
artifact issue.
Change-Id: I28ed7fdddc9fcdbcc0a4175a247a3ecc94c11767
For non-rd variance partition, avoid the chrome check
unless y_sad is below some threshold.
Small decrease in avgPSNR (~0.3) on RTC set.
Small/negligible decrease on RTC_derf.
Change-Id: I7af44235af514058ccf9a4f10bb737da9d720866
Refactor to split the 1 passs source sad computation into scene
detection (currently used for VBR and screen-content mode), and
superblock based source sad computation (used in non-rd CBR mode).
This allows the source sad computation for CBR mode to be
multi-threaded.
No change in compression.
Change-Id: I112f2918613ccbd37c1771d852606d3af18c1388
Make the source_sad feature work properly for cases of VBR or
screen_content with SVC.
Added unittest for SVC with screen-content on.
Change-Id: Iba5254fd8833fb11da521e00cc1317ec81d3f89b
Since y_sad is not computed yet (on the early exit due to source_sad),
no need to check for setting color_sensitiviy.
Only affects speed >=8. No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I3a6f2d20fed38d8b8ec51b75bcacf9a21f2db916
Allow for simple_block_rd for VGA resoln, and reduce
adaptive_rd_thresh to 1.
On average no loss on RTC set, ~4% speedup on mac.
Change-Id: Ib549c4061c853776062b5e34040f839d470fbebc
Change it to row based array to avoid the slow down cause by sync.
row-mt on, speed 8, 2 threads: ~4% speedup for VGA on ARM benefited
from adaptive_rd_threshold.
Change-Id: I887e65a53af20a6c4f48d293daaee09dab3512cf
Add additional condition to split to 16x16, for resolutions <= 360p,
reduces dragging artifact near moving boundary.
Small/no change on RTC metrics.
Change-Id: I314694f2166435d918f74e7ab42f002b07f40dae
For each superblock, keep track of how far from current frame
was the last significant content change, and use that (along
with GF distance), to turnoff GF search in non-rd pickmode.
Only enabled for speed >= 8.
avgPNSR on RTC/RTC_derf down by ~0.9/1.2.
Speedup on mac: ~3-5%.
Speedup on arm: 3.6% for VGA and 4.4% for HD.
Change-Id: Ic3f3d6a2af650aca6ba0064d2b1db8d48c035ac7
The sum of tx bloxk eobs is needed in the machine learning based partition
early termination. The eobs are first accumulated during tx search, and
then the value associated with the best tx_size is copied to ctx for later
use.
After the sum of eobs are calculated correctly, re-enabled
ml_partition_search_early_termination speed feature.
Re-did the quality/speed test to check the impact of the fix.
1. Borg test BDRATE result:
4k set: PSNR: +0.183%; SSIM: +0.100%;
hdres set: PSNR: +0.168%; SSIM: +0.256%;
midres set: PSNR: +0.186%; SSIM: +0.326%;
2.Average speed gain result:
4k clips: 21%;
hd clips: 26%;
midres clips: 15%.
The result is in line with the original result.
Change-Id: I4209a95c89be03b4cbfb6a95b16885f89feddbda
Add routine vp9_model_rd_from_var_lapndz_vec and call it from model_rd_for_sb
to model the rate and distortion for MAX_MB_PLANE Laplacian sources in
parallel. The caller ensures that all sources have non-zero variance.
Measured a 18% to 25% reduction in retired instructions, and 17% to 24%
reduction in instruction execution cost with different compilers for the
Laplacian modeling.
No change in behavior.
TEST=Verified that encoded files match bit for bit, with and without this
change.
BUG=b/33678225
Change-Id: I6b76947f21c659a349adb896e13e99f6e3f951e6
Don't denoise spatial layer frames whose base layer is a key frame.
Disallow golden reference for SVC with denoising on frames
that will be denoised (highest layer), as this removes bad artifact.
Will re-enable when issue is resolved.
Change-Id: I87a6597812330500966458172acfce54af65f70f
Fix the update of the denoiser buffer when the base
spatial layer is a key frame. And allow for better/lower
QP on high spatial layers when their base layer is key frame.
Change-Id: I96b2426f1eaa43b8b8d4c31a68b0c6d68c3024a2
