Using EIGHTTAP and EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH seem sufficient.
Hard to see any visual gain from allowing EIGHTTAP_SHARP, and it is
rarely selected.
PSNR/SSIM metrics go up by ~0.18/0.14%.
Change-Id: I96fa0d98f9321b913e3ebcd464d4ff3c63018791
Added the intra mode early termination in order to
speed up the mode search in non-rd case since we
started to include more intra modes in the search
list. Borg tests(rtc set) showed a 0.048% PSNR gain
and 0.061 SSIM gain. No speed change.
Change-Id: I6f255fe534dc50b736e6a66a726ad458eb9b4443
For non-rd mode (speed >=5): use mask based on prediction block size, and
(for non-screen content mode) allow for checking horiz and vert intra modes
for blocks sizes < 16x16.
Avg psnr/ssim metrics go up by about ~0.2%.
Only allowing H/V intra on block sizes below 16x16 for now, to keep
encoding time increase very small, and also when allowing H/V on 16x16 blocks,
metrics went down on a few clips which need to be further examined.
Change-Id: I8ae0bc8cb2a964f9709612c76c5661acaab1381e
This patch reduced the BLOCK_8X8's intra_cost_penalty, which
allows 8x8 blocks to conduct intra mode search. Borg test
result(rtc set): 0.077% PSNR gain, 0.228% SSIM gain. No speed
changes.
Change-Id: Icfe90c4f6969de24bda8ecacbd3da50330bf22b2
(see I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6)
For the test clip used, the decoder performance improved by ~2%.
This is also an intermediate step towards adding back the
mode_info streams.
Change-Id: Idddc4a3f46e4180fbebddc156c4bbf177d5c2e0d
Skip redundant prediction filter type cost in filter search loop,
if the rate value will be reset in Hadamard transform based rate
distortion estimate.
Change-Id: Ie5221f4bc8da9461c449df367251aeeac52c6e5d
This commit turns on the Hadamard transform based rate distortion
estimate for all block sizes in RTC coding mode. It conditionally
skips the rate distortion estimation if all zero block flag is set
on. No significant encoding speed change is observed. The
compression performance of speed -6 is improved by 1.7% over using
it only for block sizes of 32x32 and below.
Change-Id: I768145e6f05c737b05b5b5f1ee674e929532cafb
The threshold scaling factor was calculated wrong using partition
size "bsize". Thank Yaowu for pointing it out. It was fixed and no
speed change was seen.
Change-Id: If7a5564456f0f68d6957df3bd2d1876bbb8dfd27
This commit accounts for the transform block end of coefficient flag
cost in the RTC mode decision process. This allows a more precise
rate estimate. It also turns on the model to block sizes up to 32x32.
The test sequences shows about 3% - 5% speed penalty for speed -6.
The average compression performance improvement for speed -6 is
1.58% in PSNR. The compression gains for hard clips like jimredvga,
mmmoving, and tacomascmv at low bit-rate range are 1.8%, 2.1%, and
3.2%, respectively.
Change-Id: Ic2ae211888e25a93979eac56b274c6e5ebcc21fb
This commit separates Hadamard transform/quantization operations
from rate and distortion computation in block_yrd. This allows one
to skip SATD computation when all transform blocks are quantized
to zero. It also uses a new block error function that skips
repeated computation of sum of squared residuals. It reduces the
CPU cycles spent on block error calculation in block_yrd by 40%.
Change-Id: I726acb2454b44af1c3bd95385abecac209959b10
For large partition blocks(block_size > 32x32), the variance
calculation is modified so that every 8x8 block's variance
is stored during the calculation, which is used in the
following transform skipping test. Also, the variance for
every tx block is calculated. The skipping test checks all tx
blocks in the partition, and sets the skip flag only if all tx
blocks are skippable. If the skip flag of Y plane is 1, a
quick evaluation is done on UV planes. If the current partition
block is skippable in YUV planes, the mode search checks fewer
inter modes and doesn't check intra modes.
The rtc set borg test(at speed 6) showed that:
Overall psnr: -0.527%; Avg psnr: -0.510%; ssim: -0.573%.
Average single-thread speedup on rtc set was 3.5%.
For 720p clips, more speedups were seen.
gipsrecmotion: 13%
gipsrestat: 12%
vidyo: 5 - 9%
dark: 15%
niklas: 6%
Change-Id: I8d8ebec0cb305f1de016516400bf007c3042666e
This commit allows the encoder to check the eob per transform
block to decide how to compute the SATD rate cost. If the entire
block is quantized to zero, there is no need to add anything; if
only the DC coefficient is non-zero, add its absolute value;
otherwise, sum over the block. This reduces the CPU cycles spent
on vp9_satd_sse2 to one third.
Change-Id: I0d56044b793b286efc0875fafc0b8bf2d2047e32
When the estimated rate-distortion cost of skip coding mode is
lower than that of sending quantized coefficients, allow the
encoder to drop these coefficients. This improves the compression
performance of speed -6 by 0.268% and makes the encoding speed
slightly faster.
Change-Id: Idff2d7ba59f27ead33dd5a0e9f68746ed3c2ab68
This commit replaces the 16x16 2D-DCT transform with Hadamard
transform for RTC coding mode. It reduces the CPU cycles cost
on 16x16 transform by 5X. Overall it makes the speed -6 encoding
speed 1.5% faster without compromise on compression performance.
Change-Id: If6c993831dc4c678d841edc804ff395ed37f2a1b
This commit makes the encoder to select between SATD/variance as
metric for mode decision. It also allows to account chroma
component costs for mode decision as well. The overall encoding
time increase as compared to variance based mode selection is about
15% for speed -6. The compression performance is on average 2.2%
better than variance based approach, with about 5% compression
performance gains for hard clips (e.g., jimredvga, nikas720p, and
mmmoving) at lower bit-rate range.
Change-Id: I4d04a31d36f4fcb3f5f491dacd6e7fe44cb9d815
This commit uses Hadamard transform based rate-distortion cost
estimate for rtc coding mode decision. It improves the compression
performance of speed -6 for many hard clips at lower bit-rates.
For example, 5.5% for jimredvga, 6.7% for mmmoving, 6.1% for
niklas720p. This will introduce extra encoding cycle costs at
this point.
Change-Id: Iaf70634fa2417a705ee29f2456175b981db3d375
1. skip near if it is same as nearest
2. correct rounding for converting mv to fullpel position
3. update pred_mv_sad after new mv search.
Overall .1%~.25% compression gains on rtc set for speed 5, 6, 7, 8.
Change-Id: Ic300ca53f7da18073771f1bb993c58cde9deee89
This commit makes the encoder to explicitly calculate the SAD
associated with the LAST_FRAME motion vector and compare it to
that of the GOLDEN_FRAME given by integral projection motion
estimation. It skips the expensive sub-pixel motion search over
GOLDEN_FRAME when the LAST_FRAME can provide fairly good motion
compensated prediction quality.
For dark720p speed -6 single thread goes from
33304 b/f, 40.070 dB, 18156 ms ->
33319 b/f, 40.061 dB, 17611 ms
Change-Id: I01bc94b9b598075567a392111046b97a9bc30efe
Shut off all the metric checks for golden reference frame, if we
decide that it is unlikely to be selected for reference.
Change-Id: Ie457cc1fd43935584403b4982659aed80fb9909c
1. remove duplicate initialization to mbmi->interp_filter.
2. move mv clamping into ref_frame loop instead of mode checking loop.
3. move the check if last frame is same as golden frame earlier to
avoid initialization of Golden reference related variables.
Change-Id: Idf2d05e19e94a24f69cc289687869fc71d2ff289
This commit changes to use single loop to evaluate all inter modes.
There is no impact on compression quality and speed, but allow future
experiment with the order of modes evaluated.
Change-Id: I71696ce1014cbe127e25e98710d835987f5ecc09
Added a skip_dc check. If skip_dc = 1, we could eliminate calling
of vp9_model_rd_from_var_lapndz(). This gave slight PSNR & SSIM
gain(<0.1%), and no speed change.
Change-Id: If5ca733366148c86b98e196a00cc890f50e9a3e5
This commit removes the pred_mv_sad comparison from rtc motion
search, given that a stronger comparison has been done at the
mode search level to eliminate unlikely selected reference frames.
Change-Id: I49b8d24b2174303066fd8eff2102c0648f2869df
This commit enables the rtc coding mode to run integral projection
based motion search for golden reference frame. It improves the
speed -6 compression performance by 1.1% on average, 3.46% for
jimred_vga, 6.46% for tacomascmvvga, and 0.5% for vidyo clips. The
speed -6 is about 6% slower.
Change-Id: I0fe402ad2edf0149d0349ad304ab9b2abdf0c804
