For low spatial resolutions: bias partittion selection to smaller block sizes,
and base the variance computation on 4x4 down-sampling.
Also move the threshold computations into the choose_partitioning,
so they are computed once for each sb block.
On low-res clips (RTC_derf) PSNR/SSIMetrics increase by about 4-5%.
No change for resolutions above CIF.
Change-Id: I93f8ff742c8044786977bb6e31dcf8efda6dd1b0
This makes the inter_mode counts update consistent with other symbols.
Also, forward updates should work corerctly now.
Change-Id: Id98be26fd08875162e644bb8f1de6f0918f85396
Check if block size is below 8x8 for rectangular block coding. It
is added to support 4x8 and 8x4 block coding for RTC mode.
Change-Id: I760b328f45b98ae48adc45ed5a39fb643cd8aebd
This commit enables sub8x8 inter block coding for RTC mode. The
use of sub8x8 blocks can be turned on by allowing
choose_partitioning function to select 4x4/4x8/8x4 block sizes.
Change-Id: Ifbf1fb3888fe4c094fc85158ac3aa89867d8494a
Initial patch to remove get_zbin_mode_boost() and
cpi->zbin_mode_boost.
For now sets a dummy value of 0 for zbin extra pending
a further clean up patch.
Change-Id: I64a1e1eca2d39baa8ffb0871b515a0be05c9a6af
Change 72141 introduced a new use of vp9_avg_4x4.
This call needs to switch to using vp9_highbd_avg_4x4
when performing high bitdepth encodes.
Change-Id: I6a8ba4b62f8a75d0a917b365a55245e2f0438ea1
This commit fixes a bug in the PICK_MODE_CONTEXT index for
horizontal partition case. The compression performance change
is less than 0.01% level, since most blocks are selected to
use square block size in RTC coding mode.
Change-Id: I67effc18ae8795fccdd82a55f4efc609fa5cb3e1
For key frame under variance source partition: 4x4 prediction blocks
may be selected when variance of 8x8 block is very high (threshold is set fairly high for now).
Testing on some RTC clips shows this helps to reduce some ringing artifacts on key frame.
Encoded key frame size increases about ~10%. Key frame PSNR increases about ~0.1-0.2dB.
Change-Id: I56e203fac32ea6ef69897fb3ea269c59cb50d174
This commit explicitly uses the bit shift operation instead of
division for computing block variance.
Change-Id: Id19c0ff27dd1d1ae4aceee6657e1aad0d406bd74
This commit refactors the choose_partitioning function. It removes
redundant memset calls and makes the encoder to calculate
variance value per block only when it is needed. It reduces the
average runtime cost of choose_partitioning by 60%. Overall it
reduces speed -6 runtime by 2-5%.
Change-Id: I951922c50d901d0fff77a3bafc45992179bacef9
Update the frame motion vector only if previous frame motion vector
is needed for next frame reference motion vector.
Change-Id: Ica50f9d7b46ad4f815bba0d9e30f5546df29546f
This commit enables the use of sub8x8 blocks in RTC key frame
encoding. It requires the block size to be preset and will decide
the coding mode and encode the bit-stream.
Change-Id: I35aaf8ee2d4d6085432410c7963f339f85a2c19b
Rename set_modeinfo_offsets as set_mode_info_offsets, to be more
consistent with naming convention.
Change-Id: I68ca1f36c4a78127d9439a50c1506a2afd07927d
The later encoding process will take the top-left block's
mode_info for pre-determined block size.
Change-Id: I76a90f9ce7f3b2dbc2975b52442114e461c465b5
The restructure moves the decision into the rd pick
modes loop and makes a decision based at the 16x16
block level instead of only the 64x64 level.
This gives finer granularity and better visual results
on the clips I have tested. Metrics results are worse
than the old AQ2 especially for PSNR and this mode
now falls between AQ0 and AQ1 in terms of visual
impact and metrics results.
Further tuning of this to follow.
It should be noted that if there are multiple iterations
of the recode loop the segment for a MB could change
in each loop if the previous loop causes a change in the
complexity / variance bin of the block. Also where a block
gets a delta Q this will alter the rd multiplier for this block
in subsequent recode iterations and frames where the
segmentation is applied.
Change-Id: I20256c125daa14734c16f7cc9aefab656ab808f7
When block size is below 16x16, the encoder swap from non-RD to
RD mode for key frame coding. This largely brough back the key
frame compression performance. For vidyo1 at 1000 kbps, the key
frame coding statistics are changed
9978F, 34.183 dB, 36807 us -> 9838F, 35.020 dB, 61677 us
As compared to the full RD case
7187F, 34.930 dB, 214470 us
The overall rtc set coding performance (single key frame setting)
is improved by 1.5%.
Change-Id: I78a4ecf025d7b24ec911e85be94e01da05e77878
Currently, VP9 supports column-tile encoding, which allows a frame
to be encoded in multiple column tiles independently. The number of
column tiles are set by encoder option "--tile-columns". This
provides a way to encode a frame in parallel.
Based on previous set of patches, this patch implemented the tile-
based multi-threaded encoder. Each thread processes one or more
tiles.
Usage:
For HD clips:
--tile-columns=2 --threads=1/2/3/4
While using 4 threads, tests showed that the encoder achieved
2.3X - 2.5X speedup at good-quality speed 3, and 2X speedup at
realtime speed 5.
Change-Id: Ied987f8f2618b1283a8643ad255e88341733c9d4
For key frame at speed 6: enable the non-rd mode selection in speed setting
and use the (non-rd) variance_based partition.
Adjust some logic/thresholds in variance partition selection for key frame only (no change to delta frames),
mainly to bias to selecting smaller prediction blocks, and also set max tx size of 16x16.
Loss in key frame quality (~0.6-0.7dB) compared to rd coding,
but speeds up key frame encoding by at least 6x.
Average PNSR/SSIM metrics over RTC clips go down by ~1-2% for speed 6.
Change-Id: Ie4845e0127e876337b9c105aa37e93b286193405
Also removes some spurious changes in common/vp9_blockd.h which
was introduced by a rebase issue between nextgen and master branches.
Change-Id: If359f0e9a71bca9c2ba685a87a355873536bb282
(cherry picked from commit 005d80cd05)
(cherry picked from commit 08d2f54800)
(cherry picked from commit 4230c2306c)
Each tile's tok starting address is calculated before the encoding
process. These addresses are stored so that the same calculation
won't be done again in packing bit stream.
Change-Id: I0a3be0301f002260c19a850303f2f73ebc47aa50
This patch modified struct VP9_COMP. Created a struct ThreadData
to include data that need to be copied for each thread. In
multiple thread case, one thread processes one tile. all threads
share one copy of VP9_COMP,
(refer to VP9_COMP *cpi in the code)
but each thread has its own copy of ThreadData,
(refer to ThreadData *td in the code).
Therefore, within the scope of encode_tiles(), both cpi and td
need to be passed as function parameters.
In single thread case, the FRAME_COUNTS pointer in ThreadData
points to "counts" in VP9_COMMON.
Change-Id: Ib37908b2d8e2c0f4f9c18f38017df5ce60e8b13e
This commit makes a non-RD coding mode decision process for key
frame coding. It can be optionally turned on in speed -6 and above.
Change-Id: I0847258b392877a0210b4768bef88ebc9ad009b5
In AQ1 a rate adjustment was applied for blocks coded with a
deltaq. This tends to skew the partition selection and cause
rate overshoot.
For example, consider a 64x64 super block where some but not all
sub blocks are in a low q segment and some are in a high q segment.
The choice of Q when considering large partition and transform sizes
is defined by the lowest sub block segment id (currently this implies the
lowest Q). If some parts of the larger partition are very hard this will
cause a high rate component.
The correct behavior here is for the rd code to discard the large partition
choice and break down to sub blocks where some have low and some
have high Q. However the rate correction factor above mask the high
cost of coding at a larger partition size.
Change-Id: Ie077edd0b1b43c094898f481df772ea280b35960
Add an additional restriction to bit/complexity based
segmentation based on spatial variance.
Only lower Q when both the number of bits spent
in the initial encoding pass and the spatial complexity are
below a threshold. This will prevent the low Q segments
being used just because there is a surfeit of bits.
Small metrics gains especially opsnr.
derf ~0.2% std-hd ~0.3%
Change-Id: I6a8496d466d673f9b0e2b2ca6304ea7b6d8e1cce
This is the first of a series of patches to restructure and
improve AQ mode 1 (variance based AQ).
Change-Id: Idcf693131a3ea2459dcfd957a54a65b971fa4a2a
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
Several frame counters in encoder are updated at SB level. Combine
those counters and put them in a separate struct, which allows us
to allocate one copy for each thread.
Change-Id: I00366296a13c0ada4d8fa12f5e07728388b6cab7
Modified VP9_COMP struct to include MACROBLOCK *mb. This change
makes it feasible in multi-thread case to allocate a mb for each
thread.
Change-Id: I624d6d1aa9c132362200753e5d90b581b1738d6e
Two members in struct CYCLIC_REFRESH
int64_t projected_rate_sb;
int64_t projected_dist_sb;
are updated at the superblock level, which makes them shared data
in the multi-thread situation, and requires extra work to handle
them. However, those values are updated and used immediately, and
therefore can be removed. This patch cleaned up the code and
removed the two members.
Change-Id: I2c6ee4552bf49fb63ce590cdb47f9723974fffb1
This commit integrates the non-RD mode decision process and the
encoding process into a single recursion scheme.
Change-Id: I6a7e72a0b84d567554801ebbe01ec75d54c1f77d
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 will save a lot of memory for decoder due to removing of prev_mi,
but prev_mi is still needed in encoder. So this will increase a little bit
memory for encoder.
Change-Id: I24b2f1a423ebffa55a9bd2fcee1077dac995b2ed
This commit makes the inter prediction buffer system to support
hybrid partition search. It reduces the runtime of speed -5 by
about 3%. No compression performance change.
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
11831 ms -> 11497 ms
nik 720p 1000 kbps
10919 ms -> 10645 ms
Change-Id: I5b2da747c6395c253cd074d3907f5402e1840c36
The zero motion vector was effectively used in the subsampled pixel
based variance calculation. This commit makes it directly use zero
mv to generate prediction.
Change-Id: Ica83dc843e9f8da2f89c3ef451e50f16214c0def
This commit refactors the rate distortion structure used in the
non-RD coding mode and saves a few RDCOST calculations.
Change-Id: I62c3416c300d2c5372f21b96d93a6b633a34ab3a
Its functionality has been replaced with choose_partitioning and
threshold based control on split mode check.
Change-Id: Ic9bb321df06b524f5c38ea5874dc6f6a8f93c5e3
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
