Separates the logic on transform type selection previously spread out
over a number of files into a separate function. Currently the tx_type
field in b_mode_info is not used, but still left in there to eventually
use for signaling the transform type in the bitstream.
Also, now for tx_type = DCT_DCT, the regular integer DCT is used, as
opposed to the floating point DCT used in conjuction with hybrid
transform.
Results change somewhat due to the transform change, but are within
reasonable limits. The hd/std-hd sets are slightly up, while derf/yt
are slightly down.
Change-Id: I5776840c2239ca2da31ca6cfd7fd1148dc5f9e0f
Also make some minor stylistic changes to bring the code closer to
the style guide. Remove checks against i8x8/bpred in the mb-codepath,
since these do individual block reconstruction and thus don't go through
this codepath.
Change-Id: I4dfcf8f78746f4647a206475acf731837aa4fd47
This includes trellis optimization, forward/inverse transform,
quantization, tokenization and stuffing functions.
Change-Id: Ibd34132e1bf0cd667671a57b3f25b3d361b9bf8a
Enable ADST/DCT of dimension 16x16 for I16X16 modes. This change provides
benefits mostly for hd sequences.
Set up the framework for selectable transform dimension.
Also allowing quantization parameter threshold to control the use
of hybrid transform (This is currently disabled by setting threshold
always above the quantization parameter. Adaptive thresholding can
be built upon this, which will further improve the coding performance.)
The coding performance gains (with respect to the codec that has all
other configuration settings turned on) are
derf: 0.013
yt: 0.086
hd: 0.198
std-hd: 0.501
Change-Id: Ibb4263a61fc74e0b3c345f54d73e8c73552bf926
Set on all 16x16 intra/inter modes
Features:
- Butterfly fDCT/iDCT
- Loop filter does not filter internal edges with 16x16
- Optimize coefficient function
- Update coefficient probability function
- RD
- Entropy stats
- 16x16 is a config option
Have not tested with experiments.
hd: 2.60%
std-hd: 2.43%
yt: 1.32%
derf: 0.60%
Change-Id: I96fb090517c30c5da84bad4fae602c3ec0c58b1c
Adds ADST/DCT hybrid transform coding for Intra4x4 mode.
The ADST is applied to directions in which the boundary
pixels are used for prediction, while DCT applied to
directions without corresponding boundary prediction.
Adds enum TX_TYPE in b_mode_infor to indicate the transform
type used.
Make coding style consistent with google style.
Fixed the commented issues.
Experimental results in terms of bit-rate reduction:
derf: 0.731%
yt: 0.982%
std-hd: 0.459%
hd: 0.725%
Will be looking at 8x8 transforms next.
Change-Id: I46dbd7b80dbb3e8856e9c34fbc58cb3764a12fcf
This commit adds lossless compression capability to the experimental
branch. The lossless experiment can be enabled using --enable-lossless
in configure. When the experiment is enabled, the encoder will use
lossless compression mode by command line option --lossless, and the
decoder automatically recognizes a losslessly encoded clip and decodes
accordingly.
To achieve the lossless coding, this commit has changed the following:
1. To encode at lossless mode, encoder forces the use of unit
quantizer, i.e, Q 0, where effective quantization is 1. Encoder also
disables the usage of 8x8 transform and allows only 4x4 transform;
2. At Q 0, the first order 4x4 DCT/IDCT have been switched over
to a pair of forward and inverse Walsh-Hadamard Transform
(http://goo.gl/EIsfy), with proper scaling applied to match the range
of the original 4x4 DCT/IDCT pair;
3. At Q 0, the second order remains to use the previous
walsh-hadamard transform pair. However, to maintain the reversibility
in second order transform at Q 0, scaling down is applied to first
order DC coefficients prior to forward transform, and scaling up is
applied to the second order output prior to quantization. Symmetric
upscaling and downscaling are added around inverse second order
transform;
4. At lossless mode, encoder also disables a number of minor
features to ensure no loss is introduced, these features includes:
a. Trellis quantization optimization
b. Loop filtering
c. Aggressive zero-binning, rounding and zero-bin boosting
d. Mode based zero-bin boosting
Lossless coding test was performed on all clips within the derf set,
to verify that the commit has achieved lossless compression for all
clips. The average compression ratio is around 2.57 to 1.
(http://goo.gl/dEShs)
Change-Id: Ia3aba7dd09df40dd590f93b9aba134defbc64e34
Changes to calculation of sr_coded_error to include 0,0 case.
Experimental use of sr_coded_error in calculating correction factor
for estimating the allowable Q range.
Reinstated some code needed for calculating section_intra_rating.
Add flash detection in calculation of KF boost
Increased tolerance in testing candidate key frames (needed with
longer motion search as this tends to slightly increase inter %.
Zbin changes for 8x8.
Other minor adjustments, refactoring and bug fixes.
Reinstated some motion break out clauses in boost loop
as their removal hurt a few 50fps clips badly in the std set.
It may be possible to remove them again later if a better way
can be found of preventing overly long gf intervals.
Change-Id: Iee686d0c31072828bb1ccd2bc63f5f1c7c548ea2
Some adjustments to zbin for t8x8.
Changes to rules for sizing forced key frames.
Some extra stats output in tmp.stt.
Approximate gain on YT-hd set 0.5%
There are still issues in sizing key frames and gf/arf frames
when the image is largely static. These in part relate to
problems with cost estimates in the recode loop.
Change-Id: I6f0159dc8a8faeab4115a19c668d442491619a68
Deprecate fast quant and strict_quant code.
Small effect on quality as fast was used in first pass but the
effect is basically neutral across the derf set.
The rationale here is to reduce the number of code paths for
now to make experimentation easier. Optimized and fast code
options can be re-introduced later along with other encode
speed options.
Change-Id: Ia30c5daf3dbc52e72c83b277a1d281e3c934cdad
The commit fixed a problem where 8x8 regular quantizer was using the
4x4 zbinboost lookup table that only has 16 entries at each Q. The
commit assigned a uniform zbin boost value for all cases that there
are more than 16 consective zeros. The change only affects MBs using
8x8 transform. The fix has a slightly positive impact on quality.
Test results:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/hd_fixzbinb.html
(avg psnr: .26% glb psnr: .21% ssim: .28%)
Results on cif size clip are also positive even though gain is smaller
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/derf_fixzbinb.html
Change-Id: Ibe8f6da181d1fb377fbd0d3b5feb15be0cfa2017
This is the first patch for refactoring of the code related to
high-precision mv, so that 1/4 and 1/8 pel motion vectors can
co-exist in the same bit-stream by use of a frame level flag.
The current patch works fine for only use of 1/4th and
only use of 1/8th pel mv, but there are some issues with the
mode switching in between. Subsequent patches on this change Id
will fix the remaining issues.
Patch 2: Adds fixes to make sure that multiple mv precisions can
co-exist in the bit-stream. Frame level switching has been tested
to work correctly.
Patch 3: Fixes lines exceeding 80 char
Patch 4:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp.html
Results on derf after ssse3 bugfix, compared to everything
enabled but the 8-tap, 1/8-subpel and 1/16-subpel uv. Overall the
gains are about 3% now. Hopefully there are no more bugs lingering.
Apparently the sse3 bug affected the quartel subpel results more than
the eighth pel ones (which is understandabale because one bad predictor
due to the bug, matters less if there are a lot more subpel options
available as in the 1/8 subpel case).
The results in the 4th column correspond to the current settings.
The first two columns correspond to two settings of adaptive switching
of the 1/4 or 1/8 subpel mode based on initial Q estimate. These
do not work as good as just using 1/8 all the time yet.
Change-Id: I3ef392ad338329f4d68a85257a49f2b14f3af472
Previously, the scaling related to extended quantize range happens in
dequantization stage, which implies the coefficients form forward
transform are in different scale(4x) from dequantization coefficients
This worked fine when there was not distortion computation done based
on 8x8 transform, but it completely wracked the distortion estimation
based on transform coefficients and dequantized transform coefficients
introduced in commit f64725a00 for macroblocks using 8x8 transform.
This commit fixed the issue by moving the scaling into the stage of
inverse 8x8 transform.
TODO: Test&Verify the transform/quantization pipeline accuracy.
Change-Id: Iff77b36a965c2a6b247e59b9c59df93eba5d60e2
For 8x8 transformed macroblock, the 2nd order transform is a 2x2 haar
transform, here there is only 4 coefficients total. A previous merge
changed these to 64, causing crashes when encoding with 8x8 transform
enabled. (i.e. when input video image size > 640x360 ) This commit
reverts them back to 4 and fixes the crashes.
Change-Id: I3290b81f8c0d32c7efec03093a61ea57736c0550
In summary, this commit encompasses a series of changes in attempt to
improve the 8x8 transform based coding to help overall compression
quality, please refer to the detailed commit history below for what
are the rationale underly the series of changes:
a. A frame level flag to indicate if 8x8 transform is used at all.
b. 8x8 transform is not used for key frames and small image size.
c. On inter coded frame, macroblocks using modes B_PRED, SPLIT_MV
and I8X8_PRED are forced to using 4x4 transform based coding, the
rest uses 8x8 transform based coding.
d. Encoder and decoder has the same assumption on the relationship
between prediction modes and transform size, therefore no signaling
is encoded in bitstream.
e. Mode decision process now calculate the rate and distortion scores
using their respective transforms.
Overall test results:
1. HD set
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/HD_t8x8_20120206.html
(avg psnr: 3.09% glb psnr: 3.22%, ssim: 3.90%)
2. Cif set:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/cif_t8x8_20120206.html
(avg psnr: -0.03%, glb psnr: -0.02%, ssim: -0.04%)
It should be noted here, as 8x8 transform coding itself is disabled
for cif size clips, the 0.03% loss is purely from the 1 bit/frame
flag overhead on if 8x8 transform is used or not for the frame.
---patch history for future reference---
Patch 1:
this commit tries to select transform size based on macroblock
prediction mode. If the size of a prediction mode is 16x16, then
the macroblock is forced to use 8x8 transform. If the prediction
mode is B_PRED, SPLITMV or I8X8_PRED, then the macroblock is forced
to use 4x4 transform. Tests on the following HD clips showed mixed
results: (all hd clips only used first 100 frames in the test)
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/hdmodebased8x8.htmlhttp://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/hdmodebased8x8_log.html
while the results are mixed and overall negative, it is interesting to
see 8x8 helped a few of the clips.
Patch 2:
this patch tries to hard-wire selection of transform size based on
prediction modes without using segmentation to signal the transform size.
encoder and decoder both takes the same assumption that all macroblocks
use 8x8 transform except when prediciton mode is B_PRED, I8X8_PRED or
SPLITMV. Test results are as follows:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/cifmodebase8x8_0125.htmlhttp://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/hdmodebased8x8_0125log.html
Interestingly, by removing the overhead or coding the segmentation, the
results on this limited HD set have turn positive on average.
Patch 3:
this patch disabled the usage of 8x8 transform on key frames, and kept the
logic from patch 2 for inter frames only. test results on HD set turned
decidedly positive with 8x8 transform enabled on inter frame with 16x16
prediction modes: (avg psnr: .81% glb psnr: .82 ssim: .55%)
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/hdintermode8x8_0125.html
results on cif set still negative overall
Patch 4:
continued from last patch, but now in mode decision process, the rate and
distortion estimates are computed based on 8x8 transform results for MBs
with modes associated with 8x8 transform. This patch also fixed a problem
related to segment based eob coding when 8x8 transform is used. The patch
significantly improved the results on HD clips:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/hd8x8RDintermode.html
(avg psnr: 2.70% glb psnr: 2.76% ssim: 3.34%)
results on cif also improved, though they are still negative compared to
baseline that uses 4x4 transform only:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/cif8x8RDintermode.html
(avg psnr: -.78% glb psnr: -.86% ssim: -.19%)
Patch 5:
This patch does 3 things:
a. a bunch of decoder bug fixes, encodings and decodings were verified
to have matched recon buffer on a number of encodes on cif size mobile and
hd version of _pedestrian.
b. the patch further improved the rate distortion calculation of MBS that
use 8x8 transform. This provided some further gain on compression.
c. the patch also got the experimental work SEG_LVL_EOB to work with 8x8
transformed macroblock, test results indicates it improves the cif set
but hurt the HD set slightly.
Tests results on HD clips:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/HD_t8x8_20120201.html
(avg psnr: 3.19% glb psnr: 3.30% ssim: 3.93%)
Test results on cif clips:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/t8x8/cif_t8x8_20120201.html
(avg psnr: -.47% glb psnr: -.51% ssim: +.28%)
Patch 6:
Added a frame level flag to indicate if 8x8 transform is allowed at all.
temporarily the decision is based on frame size, can be optimized later
one. This get the cif results to basically unchanged, with one bit per
frame overhead on both cif and hd clips.
Patch 8:
Rebase and Merge to head by PGW.
Fixed some suspect 4s that look like hey should be 64s in regard
to segmented EOB. Perhaps #defines would be bette.
Bulit and tested without T8x8 enabled and produces unchanged
output.
Patch 9:
Corrected misalligned code/decode of "txfm_mode" bit.
Limited testing for correct encode and decode with
T8x8 configured on derf clips.
Change-Id: I156e1405d25f81579d579dff8ab9af53944ec49c
commit cf561bad accidentally deleted a line of code that sets the
base_qindex for each frame, which leads to every frame is encoded
at Q of 0.
Change-Id: Ib5f8022e856bf3b3bd0d4147405e46241e3dcf2d
A problem can arise on static clips with force key frames where
attempts to avoid popping lead to a progressive reduction in key
frame Q that ultimately may lead to unexpected overspend against
the rate target.
The changes in this patch help to insure that in such clips the
quality of the key frames across the clip is more uniform (rather
than starting bad and getting better - especially at low target rates).
This patch also includes a fix that removes a delta on the Y2DC
when the baseline q index < 4 as this is no longer needed.
There is also a fix to try and prevent repeat single step Q adjustment in
the recode loop leading to lots of recodes, especially where the use
of forced skips as part of segmentation has made the impact of Q on
the number of bits generated much smaller.
Patch 2: Amend "last_boosted_qindex" calculation for arf overlay frames.
Change-Id: Ia1feeb79ed8ed014e4239994fcf5e58e68fd9459
The commit fixed a problem by capping cpi->active_best_quality to be
smaller than cpi->worst_quality. Also fixed a few line of code that
was misplaced.
Change-Id: Ie908264b72140c669122a0afde5d886619c33474
This commit removed the macro CONFIG_I8X8, which was used to indicate
the 8x8 intra prediction experiment, made the change fully merged in.
Change-Id: Iafa4443781ce6e83f5591c12ba615a0e92ce0ea0
This commit enabled the usage of 8x8 intra prediction modes on inter
frames. There are a few TODO items related to this: 1)baseline entropy
need be calibrated; 2)cost of UV need to be done more properly rather
than using decision only relying on Y; 3)Threshold for allowing picking
8x8 intra prediction should be lowered to lower than the B_PRED.
Even with all the TODOs, tests showed consistent gain on derf set ~0.1%
(PSNR:0.08% and SSIM:0.14%). It is assumed that 8x8 intra prediction
will help more on large resolution clips, especially with above TODOs
addressed.
Change-Id: I398ada49dfc32575cfab962a569c2885111ae3ba
Fixed some further QIndex related issues and replaced some tables
(eg zbin and rounding)
Also Added function (currently disabled by default) to populate the
main AC and DC quantizer tables. Using the original AC range the
resulting computed DC values give behavior broadly comparable
on the DERF set. That is not to say that the equations will hold good
over a more extended range. The purpose of this code is to make it
easier to experiment with further alterations to the Q range and distribution
of Q values plus the relative weights given to AC and DC.
The function find_fp_qindex() ensures that changes to the Q tables
are reflected in the value passed in to the first pass code.
Slight experimental adjustment to static segment Q offset.
Change-Id: I36186267d55dfc2a3d565d0cff7218ef300d1cd5
This commit added scaling factors to 8x8 transform, quant, dequant and
inverse transform pipeline to make 8x8 transform to work when configed
with enable-extend_qrange. This commit also disabled the trellis-quant
when extend_qrange is configured.
Change-Id: Icfb3192e4746f70a4bb35ad18b7b47705b657e52
No change to functionality or output.
Updates to the segment feature data structure now all done
through functions such as set_segdata() and get_segdata()
in seg_common.c.
The reason for this is to make changing the structures (if needed)
and debug easier.
In addition it provides a single location for subsequent addition
of range and validity checks. For example valid combination of
mode and reference frame.
Change-Id: I2e866505562db4e4cb6f17a472b25b4465f01add
Removal of configure #ifdefs so that segment features
always available. Removal of code supporting old
segment feature method.
Still a good deal of tidying up to do.
Change-Id: I397855f086f8c09ab1fae0a5f65d9e06d2e3e39f
This quite large check in includes the following:
Merge in some code from Ronald (mbgraph.c) that scans a Gf/arf group.
This is used as a basis for a simple segmentation for the normal frames
in a gf/arf group. This code also uses satd functions from Yaowu.
Adds functionality for coding the latest possible position of an EOB for
blocks in the segment. (Currently 0-15 only, hence just for 4x4 dct).
Where the EOB position is 0 this acts like "skip" and the normal coding
of skip at the per mb level is disabled.
Added functions (seg_common.c) for setting and reading segment feature
elements. These may want to be optimized away at some point but while the
mecahnism is in a state of flux they provide a single location for making
changes and keep things a bit cleaner.
This is still proof of concept code. Currently the tested feature set:-
Quantizer,
Loop Filter level,
Reference frame,
Prediction Mode,
EOB end stop.
TBD:-
Add functions for setting and reading the feature data with range
and validity checking.
Handling of signed and unsigned feature data. At the moment all is assumed
to be signed and a sign bit is coded but many cannot be negative.
Correct handling of EOB feature with intra coded blocks.
Testing/trapping of legal/illegal ref frame and mode combinations.
Transform size switch plus merge and test with 8c8 DCT work
Merge and test with Sumans Segmenation coding optimizations
Change-Id: Iee12e83661c7abbd1e0ce6810915eb4ec35e2d8e
This data structure is now [Segment ID][Features]
rather than [Features][Segment_ID]
I propose as a separate modification to make the experimental
bit stream reflect this such that all the features for a segment
are coded together.
Change-Id: I581e4e3ca2033bdbdef3d9300977a8202f55b4fb
Some basic plumbing added for a range of segment level features.
MB_LVL_* changed to SEG_LVL_* to better reflect meaning.
Change-Id: Iac96da36990aa0e40afc0d86e990df337fd0c50b
With this fix, the experimental branch now builds and encodes correctly
with the following two configure options respectively:
--enable-experimental --enable-t8x8
--enable-experimental
Change-Id: I3147c33c503fe713a85fd371e4f1a974805778bf
vp8_fast_quantize_b_pair_neon function added to quantize
two adjacent blocks at the same time to improve performance.
- Additional 3-6% speedup compared to neon optimized fast
quantizer (Tanya VGA@30fps, 1Mbps stream, cpu-used=-5..-16)
Change-Id: I3fcbf141e5d05e9118c38ca37310458afbabaa4e
in encodframe.c, quant_shift is set to 0 or 1 in vp8cx_invert_quant
only use 8 bits to store this, instead of 16. will allow saving an
xmm register in an updated version of the regular quantize
Change-Id: Ie88c47fe2aff5af0283dab1147fb2791e4b12f90
Use the fast quantizer for inter mode selection and the
regular quantizer for the rest of the encode for good quality,
speed 1. Both performance and quality were improved. The
quality gains will make up for the quality loss mentioned in
I9dc089007ca08129fb6c11fe7692777ebb8647b0.
Change-Id: Ia90bc9cf326a7c65d60d31fa32f6465ab6984d21
The fast quantizer assembly code has not been updated to match the new
exact quantizer, which was made the default in commit 6adbe09.
Specifically, they are not aware of the potential for the coefficient
to be scaled, which results in the quantized result exceeding the range
of the DCT. This patch restores the previous behavior of using the
non-shifted coefficients when in the fast quantizer code path, but
unfortunately requires rebuilding the tables when switching between the
two.
Change-Id: I0a33f5b3850335011a06906f49fafed54dda9546
Small changes to the default zero bin and rounding tables.
Though the tables are currently the same for the Y1 and Y2 cases
I have left them as separate tables in case we want to tune this later.
There is now some adjustment of the zbin based on the prediction mode.
Previously this was restricted to an adjustment for gf/arf 0,0 MV.
The exact quantizer now marginal outperforms and is the default.
The overall average gain is about 0.5%
Change-Id: I5e4353f3d5326dde4e86823684b236a1e9ea7f47
