This patch changes the coefficient tree to move the EOB to below
the ZERO node in order to save number of bool decodes.
The advantages of moving EOB one step down as opposed to two steps down
in the other parallel patch are: 1. The coef modeling based on
the One-node becomes independent of the tree structure above it, and
2. Fewer conext/counter increases are needed.
The drawback is that the potential savings in bool decodes will be
less, but assuming that 0s are much more predominant than 1's the
potential savings is still likely to be substantial.
Results on derf300: -0.237%
Change-Id: Ie784be13dc98291306b338e8228703a4c2ea2242
For 4x4 blocks valgrind points out the cache was uninitalized.
This resolves the issue by setting it.
Change-Id: I22733000da048643762813a84fbda66d8e4040d2
This commit makes clean-ups in the rate-distortion loop for 4x4,
4x8, and 8x4 block sizes for the use of iterative motion search.
Removed unnecessary use of bmi in handle_inter_mode.
Deprecated loop over labels in the 4x4/4x8/8x4 block rd search.
Change-Id: I71203dbb68b65e66f073b37abd90d82ef5ae6826
This patch checks at the frame level to see if the previous
mode info context can be used. This patch eliminates the
flag check that was done for every mode and removes another
check that was done prior to every vp9_find_mv_refs().
Change-Id: I9da5e18b7e7e28f8b1f90d527cad087073df2d73
scales for second reference frame vars are unitialized if the
second ref frame is one of of those disallowed by refframeflags
Change-Id: I4ce42de391178c1699dcaede18c5f12c84993c61
Proposal for tuning the residual coding by changing how the context
from previous tokens is calculated. Storing the energy class of previous
tokens instead of the token itself eases the critical path of
HW implementations.
Change-Id: I6d71d856b84518f6c88de771ddd818436f794bab
This commit pulls the iterative motion search for compound inter-
inter out from handle_inter_mode_ as a separate function. Hence,
it is applicable to 4x4/4x8/8x4 level compound inter search to be
enabled later.
Also edit the rd loop for 4x4 inter block sizes for cosmetic
purpose.
Change-Id: Ibc71a11cbe5a26cd52faba01026cf8446cf4d2b4
Removed one 4x4 prediction step that was unnessary in the rd loop.
Removed a unused modecosts estimate from encoder side.
Change-Id: I65221a52719d6876492996955ef04142d2752d86
1. remove prediction mode conversion
2. unified bmode, same for key and non-key frame
3. set I4X4_PRED count for pdf to 0, as I4X4_PRED is no longer
coded ever. It is determined by ref_frame and block partition
Change-Id: If5b282957c24339b241acdb9f2afef85658fe47d
Also do per-partition motion vector referencing in <sb8x8 partitions,
and adjust mvref finding for sub8x8 partitions.
Change-Id: Id3ed1ed4d2a8910d11d327db6cc63b8eb79f941f
This commit refactors the iterative motion search for compound
inter-inter mode, to make it support all partition types including
4x4/4x8/8x4 block sizes.
Change-Id: I5f1212b0f307377291763e45c6bdc9693b5f04c8
Move 4x4/4x8/8x4 partition coding out of experimental list.
This commit fixed the unit test failure issues. It also resolved
the merge conflicts between 4x4 block level partition and iterative
motion search for comp_inter_inter.
Change-Id: I898671f0631f5ddc4f5cc68d4c62ead7de9c5a58
Reverts to using 128 bit LUT for the coef models rather than 48
to ease hardware implementation.
Also incorporates some cleanups including removing various
hooks to support different lookup tables based on block_type and
ref_type.
Change-Id: I54100c120cca07a2ebd3a7776bc4630fa6a153f6
This commit allows the rate-distortion optimization of intra coding
capable of supporting 8x4 and 4x8 partition settings.
It enables the entropy coding of intra modes in key frame using a
unified contextual probability model conditioned on its above/left
prediction modes.
Coding performance:
derf 0.464%
Change-Id: Ieed055084e11fcb64d5d5faeb0e706d30268ba18
Cleans up the experiment. Actually uses reduced counts for backward
updates, and reduced number of probabilities in the context.
No change in bitstream when the experiment is on.
Between expt on and off:
derfraw300 is down only -0.062% (which is better than when expts
were run previously).
Change-Id: I55285a049a0c22810bdb42914212ab5a4f8521b5
This patch eliminates the intermediate diff buffer usage by
combining the short idct and the add residual into one function.
The encoder can use the same code as well.
Change-Id: I296604bf73579c45105de0dd1adbcc91bcc53c22
The recursive partition type search is enabled down to 4x4, 4x8 and
8x4, followed by the corresponding rate-distortion optimization for
the per-partition encoding mode decisions.
The bit-stream writing/reading synchronized in supporting the
rectangular partition of 8x8 block.
This provides above 1% coding performance gains on derf.
To do next:
1. re-design the rate-distortion loop for inter prediction below 8x8.
2. re-design the rate-distortion loop for intra prediction below 4x4.
3. make the loop-filter aware of rectangular partition of 8x8 block.
4. clean the unused probability models.
5. update default probability values.
Change-Id: Idd41a315b16879db08f045a322241f46f1d53f20
This is a mostly-working implementation of an extra channel in the
bitstream. Configure with --enable-alpha to test. Notable TODOs:
- Add extra channel to all mismatch tests, PSNR, SSIM, etc
- Configurable subsampling
- Variable number of planes (currently always uses all 4)
- Loop filtering
- Per-plane lossless quantizer
- ARNR support
This implementation just uses the same contents as the Y channel
for the A channel, due to lack of content and general pain in
playing back 4 channel content. A later patch will use the actual
alpha channel passed in from outside the codec.
Change-Id: Ibf81f023b1c570bd84b3064e9b4b8ae52e087592
These building blocks enable rate-distortion optimization search
over block sizes of 8x4 and 4x8. Need to convert them into mmx/sse
forms.
Change-Id: I570ea2d22d14ceec3fe3575128d7dfa172a577de
This commit allows proper transform type (DCT/ADST) selection in
the settings of partition 4x4 level.
Change-Id: Iec6f922a46480d777e7ca9142a99e8c131f0077b
This commit allows the rate-distortion optimization recursion
at encoder to go down to 4x4 block size. It deprecates the use
of I4X4_PRED and SPLITMV syntax elements from bit-stream
writing/reading. Will remove the unused probability models in
the next patch.
The partition type search and bit-stream are now capable of
supporting the rectangular partition of 8x8 block, i.e., 8x4
and 4x8. Need to revise the rate-distortion parts to get these
two partition tested in the rd loop.
Change-Id: I0dfe3b90a1507ad6138db10cc58e6e237a06a9d6
Allow motion search multiple times iteratively, and break out
the loop if this search couldn't find better motion vectors.
Limit the maximum number of search to 2.
Tests results:
1. stdhd set: 0.311%(overall psnr); 0.346%(ssim).
positive gain on 10 out of 16 clips(best: 2.746% on sunflower;
worst: -0.434% on old_town_cross).
2. derf set: 0.016%(overall psnr); 0.062%(ssim).
positive gain on half of the clips(best: 0.499% on bowing;
worst: -0.387 on city).
Change-Id: Ibf0a51776d4caf7707be0586346db08128117559
Change band calculation back to simpler model based
on the order in which coefficients are coded in scan order
not the absolute coefficient positions.
With the scatter scan experiment enabled the results were
appear broadly neutral on derf (-0.028) but up a little on std-hd +0.134).
Without the scatterscan experiment on the results were up derf as well.
Change-Id: Ie9ef03ce42a6b24b849a4bebe950d4a5dffa6791
Use 4x4 block coding for UV components arbitrarily in I4X4_PRED and
SPLITMV coding modes. This is a temporary solution to enable
bit-stream support for recursive partition down to 4x4 block size.
Will separate the functionalities of 4x4 block coding rate-distortion
out from those of superblocks.
Change-Id: I03dc15d5897014f175f3f2c91e9b266091d56797
In current code, motion vectors got from single prediction mode are used
in compound prediction mode directly. These motion vectors may not give
accurate prediction since they are searched independently. In this patch,
we took Pascal's suggestion, and did joint motion search in compound
prediction mode to find better motion vectors in this situation.
Test results:
Overall PSNR: 0.570%(derf), 0.918%(stdhd);
SSIM: 0.572%(derf), 1.009%(stdhd);
The encoder is a little slower. This can be improved since some c
code is used in motion search.
Change-Id: Ib30c9240f6c56c9b070867b4ca89412a76d9f3c6
Makes the temporary storage of the filtered data agnostic to
the number of planes and how they're subsampled.
Change-Id: I12f352cd69a47ebe1ac622af30db29b49becb7f4
Iterating over all planes in the loop instead of custom y,uv code inside
handle_inter_mode function.
Change-Id: I301f9276d6d544c2fd7203d84f1318ac80ea625d
Disable the use of scaled reference frame for motion search in
SPLITMV mode. This fixes the unit test failure issue triggered
when merging sb8x8 from experimental list.
Change-Id: I02ac25fd8db8d5762f8fee29513b947189875fa0
This allows removing a large number of transform size specific functions,
as well as supporting 444/alpha by routing all code through the
subsampling-aware path.
Change-Id: Ieb085cebe9f37f24fc24de179898b22abfda08a4
Work-in-progress, not yet ready for review. TODO items:
- bitstream writing (encoder) and reading (decoder)
- decoder reconstruction
Change-Id: I5afb7284e7e0480847b47cd0097cb469433c9081
Output changes slightly because of a minor bug in (at least) the sb32x16
block2above tx16x16 tables that previously existed in vp9_blockd.c.
Change-Id: I624af28ac200a8322d64454cf05c79e9502968cc
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I7ff2fa72d22c29163eb558981c8193765a8113d9
This originally was "Removed update_blockd_bmi()". Now,
this patch removed bmi from blockd and uses the bmi found
in mode_info_context. Eliminates unnecessary bmi copies between
blockd and mode_info_context.
Change-Id: I287a4972974bb363f49e528daa9b2a2293f4bc76
Basic assumption: when talking about transform units, use b_; when
talking about macroblock indices, use mb_.
Change-Id: Ifd163f595d4924ff892de4eb0401ccd56dc81884
The underlying storage for these buffers is in the per-plane MACROBLOCKD
area, so read it from there directly.
Change-Id: Id6bd835117fdd9dea07db95ad06eff9f12afaaf7
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I593fb0715e74cd84b48facd1c9b18c3ae1185d4b
This commit enables selecting probability models for recursive block
partition information syntax, depending on its above/left partition
information, as well as the current block size. These conditional
probability models are reasonably stationary and consistent across
frames, hence the backward adaptive approach is used to maintain and
update the contextual models.
It achieves coding performance gains (on top of enabling rectangular
block sizes):
derf: 0.242%
yt: 0.391%
hd: 0.376%
stdhd: 0.645%
Change-Id: Ie513d9673337f0d27abd65fb566b711d0844ec2e
This commit moves the coeff storage from the MACROBLOCK struct to its
per-plane part. The next commit will remove the coeff member from the
BLOCK structure so that it is consistently accessed per-plane.
Also refactors vp9_sb_block_error_c and vp9_sb_uv_block_error_c to be
variable subsampling aware.
Change-Id: I18c30f87f27c3a012119b6c1970d5fa499804455
First in a series of commits making certain MACROBLOCK members
addressable per-plane. This commit also refactors the block subtraction
functions vp9_subtract_b, vp9_subtract_sby_c, etc to be
loops-over-planes and variable subsampling aware.
Change-Id: I371d092b914ae0a495dfd852ea1a3d2467be6ec3
This version of speed 1 only disables modes at higher resolution that
had distortions >2x the best mode we found...
The hope is that this could be a replacement for speed 0 ...
Change-Id: I7421f1016b8958314469da84c4dccddf25390720
Adds an experiment that codes an end-of-orientation symbol
for every eligible zero encountered in scan order.
This cleans out various other sub-experiments that were part
of the origiinal patch, which will be later included if found
useful.
Results are slightly positive on all sets (0.1 - 0.2% range).
Change-Id: I57765c605fefc7fb9d1b57f1b356843602abefaf
Removes the redundant dst pointers from vp9_build_inter_predictors_sb{y,uv}
and the remaining mb specific functions.
Change-Id: I7b6bf439d9394b85ea79b4fe61a3ffc1025720da
First in a series of commits moving the framebuffers pointers to
per-plane data, so that they can be indexed numerically rather than
by name.
Change-Id: I6e0d60fd4d51e6375c384eb7321776564df21775
Further simplification of mvref search to return
only the top two candidates. Distance weights removed
as the test order reflects distance anyway.
Change-Id: I0518cab7280258fec2058670add4f853fab7b855
As we are no longer able to sort the candidate
mvrefs in both encoder and decode and given
that the cost of explicit signalling has proved
prohibitive, it no longer makes sense to find more
than 2 candidates.
This patch:
Modifies and simplifies add_candidate_mv()
Removes the forced addition of a 0 vector in the
MAX_MV_REF_CANDIDATES-1 position (in preparation
to reducing MAX_MV_REF_CANDIDATES to 2).
Re-orders the addition of candidates slightly.
This actually gives small gains (circa 0.2% on std-hd)
A subsequent patch will remove NEW_MVREF experiment,
reduce MAX_MV_REF_CANDIDATES to 2 and remove distance
weights as these are implicit now in the order.
Change-Id: I3dbe1a6f8a1a18b3c108257069c22a1141a207a4
Use in-place buffers (dst of MACROBLOCKD) for macroblock prediction.
This makes the macroblock buffer handling consistent with those of
superblock. Remove predictor buffer MACROBLOCKD.
Change-Id: Id1bcd898961097b1e6230c10f0130753a59fc6df
Adds RD integration for 32x16, 16x32, 64x32 and 32x64 rectangular blocks.
Derf almost +0.6%, HD a little over +1.0%, STDHD +1.3%.
Change-Id: Id651fdb6a655fdbb5c47009757e63317acfb88a5
This flag was added to VP8 to allow a mode where MB-level skipping
was not allowed, saving a bit per mb. It was never used in practice,
and hasn't been tested in VP9, so remove it.
Change-Id: Id450ec6904c6d06c1919508e7efc52d05cde5631
Static threshold results slightly up (+0.1% on derf), probably b/c
we now take the filter (sharp/lowpass) into account for the breakout
decision.
Change-Id: I9f597601da434205142afd05f32690e7ba8fd690
Combine superblock inter predictors into a unified function that
allows configurable block width and height. The inter predictions
of block sizes smaller than 16x16 are handled differently. To be
continued on merging them later.
Change-Id: I14075959dd5e221f00c205c99ca35c1c31ef728e
The intra predictor supports configurable block sizes. It can handle
intra prediction down to 4x4 sizes, when enabled in BLOCK_SIZE_TYPE.
Change-Id: I7399ec2512393aa98aadda9813ca0c83e19af854
This patch will use the dest buffer instead of the
predictor buffer. This will allow us in future commits
to remove the extra mem copy that occurs in the dequant
functions when eob == 0. We should also be able to remove
extra params that are passed into the dequant functions.
Change-Id: I7241bc1ab797a430418b1f3a95b5476db7455f6a
Merge various super_block_yrd and super_block_uvrd versions into one
common function that works for all sizes. Make transform size selection
size-agnostic also. This fixes a slight bug in the intra UV superblock
code where it used the wrong transform size for txsz > 8x8, and stores
the txsz selection for superblocks properly (instead of forgetting it).
Lastly, it removes the trellis search that was done for 16x16 intra
predictors, since trellis is relatively expensive and should thus only
be done after RD mode selection.
Gives basically identical results on derf (+0.009%).
Change-Id: If4485c6f0a0fe4038b3172f7a238477c35a6f8d3
Merge sb32x32 and sb64x64 functions; allow for rectangular sizes. Code
gives identical encoder results before and after. There are a few
macros for rectangular block sizes under the sbsegment experiment; this
experiment is not yet functional and should not yet be used.
Change-Id: I71f93b5d2a1596e99a6f01f29c3f0a456694d728
Clamp only the motion vectors inferred from neighboring reference
macroblocks. The motion vectors obtained through motion search in
NEWMV mode are constrained during the search process, which allows
a relatively larger referencing region than the inferred mvs.
Hence further clamping the best mv provided by the motion search may
affect the efficacy of NEWMV mode.
Synchronized the decoding process. The decoded mvs in NEWMV modes
should be guaranteed to fit in the effective range. Put a mv range
clamping function there for security purpose.
This improves the coding performance of high motion sequences, e.g.,
derf set:
foreman 0.233%
husky 0.175%
icd 0.135%
mother_daughter 0.337%
pamphlet 0.561%
stdhd set:
blue_sky 0.408%
city 0.455%
also saw sunflower goes down by -0.469%.
Change-Id: I3fcbba669e56dab779857a8126a91b926e899cb5
Start grouping data per-plane, as part of refactoring to support
additional planes, and chroma planes with other-than 4:2:0
subsampling.
Change-Id: Idb76a0e23ab239180c818025bae1f36f1608bb23
The patch adds the flexibility to use standard EOB based coding
on smaller block sizes and nzc based coding on larger blocksizes.
The tx-sizes that use nzc based coding and those that use EOB based
coding are controlled by a function get_nzc_used().
By default, this function uses nzc based coding for 16x16 and 32x32
transform blocks, which seem to bridge the performance gap
substantially.
All sets are now lower by 0.5% to 0.7%, as opposed to ~1.8% before.
Change-Id: I06abed3df57b52d241ea1f51b0d571c71e38fd0b
Almost all arguments for vp9_build_inter32x32_predictors_sb and
vp9_build_inter64x64_predictors_sb can be deduced from the first macroblock
argument.
Change-Id: I5d477a607586d05698d5b3b9b9bc03891dd3fe83
Adds an experiment to use a weighted prediction of two INTER
predictors, where the weight is one of (1/4, 3/4), (3/8, 5/8),
(1/2, 1/2), (5/8, 3/8) or (3/4, 1/4), and is chosen implicitly
based on consistency of the predictors to the already
reconstructed pixels to the top and left of the current macroblock
or superblock.
Currently the weighting is not applied to SPLITMV modes, which
default to the usual (1/2, 1/2) weighting. However the code is in
place controlled by a macro. The same weighting is used for Y and
UV components, where the weight is derived from analyzing the Y
component only.
Results (over compound inter-intra experiment)
derf: +0.18%
yt: +0.34%
hd: +0.49%
stdhd: +0.23%
The experiment suggests bigger benefit for explicitly signaled weights.
Change-Id: I5438539ff4485c5752874cd1eb078ff14bf5235a
These are mostly just for experimental purposes. I saw small gains (in
the 0.1% range) when playing with this on derf.
Change-Id: Ib21eed477bbb46bddcd73b21c5c708a5b46abedc
Now that the first AC coefficient in both directions use the same DC
as their context, there no longer is a purpose in letting both have
their own band. Merging these two bands allows us to split bands for
some of the very high-frequency AC bands.
In addition, I'm redoing the banding for the 1D-ADST col/row scans. I
don't think the old banding made any sense at all (it merged the last
coefficient of the first row/col in the same band as the first two of
the second row/col), which was clearly an oversight from the band being
applied in scan-order (rather than in their actual position). Now,
coefficients at the same position will be in the same band, regardless
what scan order is used. I think this makes most sense for the purpose
of banding, which is basically "predict energy for this coefficient
depending on the energy of context coefficients" (i.e. pt).
After full re-training, together with previous patch, derf gains about
1.2-1.3%, and hd/stdhd gain about 0.9-1.0%.
Change-Id: I7a0cc12ba724e88b278034113cb4adaaebf87e0c
Pearson correlation for above or left is significantly higher than for
previous-in-scan-order (absolute values depend on position in scan, but
in general, we gain about 0.1-0.2 by using either above or left; using
both basically just makes this even better). For eob branch skipping,
we continue to use the previous token in scan order.
This helps about 0.9% on derf after re-training on a limited data set.
Full re-training and results on larger-resolution clips are pending.
Note that this commit breaks trellis, so we can probably get further
gains out of it by fixing trellis at some later point.
Change-Id: Iead68e296fc3a105cca746b5e3da9555d6010cfe
Renaming Width to width, Height to height and Version to version in
several structs and function signatures.
Change-Id: I084c3f7e747cb2ce3345aff27a3dff9b13a87543
Adjust the filter length and strength for each
ARF group based on a measure of difficulty (the boost)
and the active q range.
Remove lower limit on RDMULT value.
Average gains on the different sets in range 0.4%-0.9%.
However the ARNR changes give a very big boost on a
few clips.
Eg. Soccer ~5%, in derf set and Cyclist ~ 10% in the std-hd set
Change-Id: I2078d78798e27ad2bcc2b32d703ea37b67412ec4
This fix resolves some of the mismatch issues being seen
recently. While this is the right thing to do when tiling
is used for this experiment, it is not the underlying cause
of the the mismatches.
Something else is causing writing outside of the allowable
frame area in the encoder leading to this mismatch.
Change-Id: If52c6f67555aa18ab8762865384e323b47237277
Updates the YV12_BUFFER_CONFIG structure to be crop-aware. The
exiting width/height parameters are left unchanged, storing the
width and height algined to a 16 byte boundary. The cropped
dimensions are added as new fields.
This fixes a nasty visual pulse when switching between scaled and
unscaled frame dimensions due to a mismatch between the scaling
ratio and the 16-byte aligned sizes.
Change-Id: Id4a3f6aea6b9b9ae38bdfa1b87b7eb2cfcdd57b6
Adds probability updates for extra bits for the nzcs, code for
getting nzc stats, plus some minor cleanups and fixes.
Change-Id: If2814e7f04fb52f5025ad9f400f3e6c50a00b543
Increase the motion search range by 4x. Change MV_CLASS tree of the
entropy coding to allow two additional mv classes to cover the
extended motion vector limit. The codec determines the effective
motion search range conditioned on the actual frame dimension.
It provides coding gains:
stdhd 0.39%
yt 0.56%
hd 0.47%
Major coding performance gains are packed in several sequences with
intense motion activities, e.g., ped_1080p gains 7% at high bit-rates,
and on average 3%.
TODO: Need to further tune the rate control and motion search units.
Change-Id: Ib842540a6796fbee5a797809433ef6a477c6d78d
This also changes the RD search to take account of the correct block
index when searching (this is required for ADST positioning to work
correctly in combination with tx_select).
Change-Id: Ie50d05b3a024a64ecd0b376887aa38ac5f7b6af6
This patch revamps the entropy coding of coefficients to code first
a non-zero count per coded block and correspondingly remove the EOB
token from the token set.
STATUS:
Main encode/decode code achieving encode/decode sync - done.
Forward and backward probability updates to the nzcs - done.
Rd costing updates for nzcs - done.
Note: The dynamic progrmaming apporach used in trellis quantization
is not exactly compatible with nzcs. A suboptimal approach has been
used instead where branch costs are updated to account for changes
in the nzcs.
TODO:
Training the default probs/counts for nzcs
Change-Id: I951bc1e22f47885077a7453a09b0493daa77883d
Split macroblock and superblock tokenization and detokenization
functions and coefficient-related data structs so that the bitstream
layout and related code of superblock coefficients looks less like it's
a hack to fit macroblocks in superblocks.
In addition, unify chroma transform size selection from luma transform
size (i.e. always use the same size, as long as it fits the predictor);
in practice, this means 32x32 and 64x64 superblocks using the 16x16 luma
transform will now use the 16x16 (instead of the 8x8) chroma transform,
and 64x64 superblocks using the 32x32 luma transform will now use the
32x32 (instead of the 16x16) chroma transform.
Lastly, add a trellis optimize function for 32x32 transform blocks.
HD gains about 0.3%, STDHD about 0.15% and derf about 0.1%. There's
a few negative points here and there that I might want to analyze
a little closer.
Change-Id: Ibad7c3ddfe1acfc52771dfc27c03e9783e054430
This patch makes the encoder's use of ref_frame_map and active_ref_idx
consistent with the decoder. ref_frame_map[] maps a reference buffer
index to its actual location in the yv12_fb array, since many
references may share an underlying buffer. active_ref_idx[] mirrors
cpi->{lst,gld,alt}_fb_idx, holding the active references in each
slot.
This also fixes a bug in setup_buffer_inter() where the incorrect
reference was used to populate the scaling factors.
Change-Id: Id3728f6d77cffcd27c248903bf51f9c3e594287e
This patch extends the previous support for using references of a
different resolution in ZEROMV mode to all inter prediction modes.
Subpixel based best-mv scoring is disabled when the reference frame
differs in resolution from the current frame.
Change-Id: Id4dc3e5e6692de98d9857fd56bfad3ac57e944ac
This patch allows coding frames using references of different
resolution, in ZEROMV mode. For compound prediction, either
reference may be scaled.
To test, I use the resize_test and enable WRITE_RECON_BUFFER
in vp9_onyxd_if.c. It's also useful to apply this patch to
test/i420_video_source.h:
--- a/test/i420_video_source.h
+++ b/test/i420_video_source.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class I420VideoSource : public VideoSource {
virtual void FillFrame() {
// Read a frame from input_file.
+ if (frame_ != 3)
if (fread(img_->img_data, raw_sz_, 1, input_file_) == 0) {
limit_ = frame_;
}
This forces the frame that the resolution changes on to be coded
with no motion, only scaling, and improves the quality of the
result.
Change-Id: I1ee75d19a437ff801192f767fd02a36bcbd1d496
Ensure that all inter prediction goes through a common code path
that takes scaling into account. Removes a bunch of duplicate
1st/2nd predictor code. Also introduces a 16x8 mode for 8x8
MVs, similar to the 8x4 trick we were doing before. This has an
unexpected effect with EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH, so it's disabled in that
case for now.
Change-Id: Ia053e823a8bc616a988a0af30452e1e75a739cba
Rebased.
Remove the old matrix multiplication transform computation. The 16x16
ADST/DCT can be switched on/off and evaluated by setting ACTIVE_HT16
300/0 in vp9/common/vp9_blockd.h.
Change-Id: Icab2dbd18538987e1dc4e88c45abfc4cfc6e133f
This patch alters the balance of context between the
coefficient bands (reflecting the position of coefficients
within a transform blocks) and the energy of the previous
token (or tokens) within a block.
In this case the number of coefficient bands is reduced
but more previous token energy bands are supported.
Some initial rebalancing of the default tables has been
by running multiple derf clips at multiple data rates using
the ENTOPY_STATS macro. Further balancing needs to be
done using larger image formatsd especially in regard to
the bigger transform sizes which are not as well represented
in encodings of smaller image formats.
Change-Id: If9736e95c391e711b04aef6393d26f60f36e1f8a
The over quant code was added in VP8 post
bitstream freeze to allow compression to lower
data rates
In VP9 the real qualtizer range has been greatly
extended anyway.
Change-Id: I5d384fa5e9a83ef75a3df34ee30627bd21901526
This patch includes 4x4, 8x8, and 16x16 forward butterfly ADST/DCT
hybrid transform. The kernel of 4x4 ADST is sin((2k+1)*(n+1)/(2N+1)).
The kernel of 8x8/16x16 ADST is of the form sin((2k+1)*(2n+1)/4N).
Change-Id: I8f1ab3843ce32eb287ab766f92e0611e1c5cb4c1
Refactors the switchable filter search in the rd loop to
improve encode speed.
Uses a piecewise approximation to a closed form expression to estimate
rd cost for a Laplacian source with a given variance and quantization
step-size.
About 40% encode time reduction is achieved.
Results (on a feb 12 baseline) show a slight drop:
derf: -0.019%
yt: +0.010%
std-hd: -0.162%
hd: -0.050%
Change-Id: Ie861badf5bba1e3b1052e29a0ef1b7e256edbcd0
The 32x32 value in case of splitmv was uninitialized. this leads to
all kind of erratic behaviour down the line. Also fill in dummy values
for superblocks in keyframes (the values are currently unused, but we
run into integer overflows anyway, which makes detecting bad cases
harder). Lastly, in case we did not find any RD value at all, don't
set tx_diff to INT_MIN, but instead set it to zero (since if we couldn't
find a mode, it's unlikely that any particular transform would have made
that worse or better; rather, it's likely equally bad for all tx_sizes).
Change-Id: If236fd3aa2037e5b398d03f3b1978fbbc5ce740e
This issue breaks the encoding process of the codebase. The effect
emerges only in particular test sequence at certain bit-rates and
frame limits.
Change-Id: I02e080f2a49624eef9a21c424053dc2a1d902452
This patch abstracts the selection of the coefficient band
context into a function as a precursor to further experiments
with the coefficient context.
It also removes the large per TX size coefficient band structures
and uses a single matrix for all block sizes within the test function.
This may have an impact on quality (results to follow) but is only an
intermediate step in the process of redefining the context. Also the
quality impact will be larger initially because the default tables will
be out of step with the new banding.
In particular the 4x4 will in this case only use 7 bands. If needed we
can add back block size dependency localized within the function, but
this can follow on after the other changes to the definition of the
context.
Change-Id: Id7009c2f4f9bb1d02b861af85fd8223d4285bde5
This is an initial step to facilitate experimentation
with changes to the prior token context used to code
coefficients to take better account of the energy of
preceding tokens.
This patch merely abstracts the selection of context into
two functions and does not alter the output.
Change-Id: I117fff0b49c61da83aed641e36620442f86def86
1. Added a bit in frame header to to indicate if a frame is encoded
in lossless mode, so decoder does not make the decision based on Q0
2. Minor changes to make sure that lossy coding works same as when
the lossless experiment is not enabled.
3. Renamed function pointers for transforms to be consistent, using
prefix fwd_txm and inv_txm for forward and inverse respectively
To encode in lossless mode, using "--lossless=1 --min-q=0 --max-q=0"
with vpxenc.
Change-Id: Ifae53b26d2ffbe378d707e29d96817b8a5e6c068
Removal of the NEWCOEFCONTEXT experiment to
reduce code clutter and make it easier to experiment with
some other changes to the coefficient coding context.
Change-Id: Icd17b421384c354df6117cc714747647c5eb7e98
fixed format issues.
Implement the inverse 4x4 ADST using 9 multiplications. For this
particular dimension, the original ADST transform can be
factorized into simpler operations, hence is retained.
Change-Id: Ie5d9749942468df299ab74e90d92cd899569e960
Replace as_mv.{first, second} with a two element array, so that they
can easily be processed with an index variable.
Change-Id: I1e429155544d2a94a5b72a5b467c53d8b8728190
Cache the constant offset in one variable to prevent re-loading that
in each loop iteration, and mark the function as inline so we can use
the fact that the transform size is always known in the caller.
Almost 1% faster encoding overall.
Change-Id: Id78325a60b025057d8f4ecd9003a74086ccbf85a
Pass the current mb row and column around rather than the
recon_yoffset and recon_uvoffset, since those offsets will
change from predictor to predictor, based on the reference
frame selection.
Change-Id: If3f9df059e00f5048ca729d3d083ff428e1859c1
* changes:
Initial support for resolution changes on P-frames
Avoid allocating memory when resizing frames
Adds a test for the VP8E_SET_SCALEMODE control
Allows inter-frames to change resolution. Currently these are
almost equivalent to keyframes, as only intra prediction modes
are allowed, but without the other context resets that occur on
keyframes.
Change-Id: Icd1a2a5af0d9462cc792588427b0a1f5b12e40d3
This patch adds column-based tiling. The idea is to make each tile
independently decodable (after reading the common frame header) and
also independendly encodable (minus within-frame cost adjustments in
the RD loop) to speed-up hardware & software en/decoders if they used
multi-threading. Column-based tiling has the added advantage (over
other tiling methods) that it minimizes realtime use-case latency,
since all threads can start encoding data as soon as the first SB-row
worth of data is available to the encoder.
There is some test code that does random tile ordering in the decoder,
to confirm that each tile is indeed independently decodable from other
tiles in the same frame. At tile edges, all contexts assume default
values (i.e. 0, 0 motion vector, no coefficients, DC intra4x4 mode),
and motion vector search and ordering do not cross tiles in the same
frame.
t log
Tile independence is not maintained between frames ATM, i.e. tile 0 of
frame 1 is free to use motion vectors that point into any tile of frame
0. We support 1 (i.e. no tiling), 2 or 4 column-tiles.
The loopfilter crosses tile boundaries. I discussed this briefly with Aki
and he says that's OK. An in-loop loopfilter would need to do some sync
between tile threads, but that shouldn't be a big issue.
Resuls: with tiling disabled, we go up slightly because of improved edge
use in the intra4x4 prediction. With 2 tiles, we lose about ~1% on derf,
~0.35% on HD and ~0.55% on STD/HD. With 4 tiles, we lose another ~1.5%
on derf ~0.77% on HD and ~0.85% on STD/HD. Most of this loss is
concentrated in the low-bitrate end of clips, and most of it is because
of the loss of edges at tile boundaries and the resulting loss of intra
predictors.
TODO:
- more tiles (perhaps allow row-based tiling also, and max. 8 tiles)?
- maybe optionally (for EC purposes), motion vectors themselves
should not cross tile edges, or we should emulate such borders as
if they were off-frame, to limit error propagation to within one
tile only. This doesn't have to be the default behaviour but could
be an optional bitstream flag.
Change-Id: I5951c3a0742a767b20bc9fb5af685d9892c2c96f
Update the code to call the new convolution functions to do subpixel
prediction rather than the existing functions. Remove the old C and
assembly code, since it is unused. This causes a 50% performance
reduction on the decoder, but that will be resolved when the asm for
the new functions is available.
There is no consensus for whether 6-tap or 2-tap predictors will be
supported in the final codec, so these filters are implemented in
terms of the 8-tap code, so that quality testing of these modes
can continue. Implementing the lower complexity algorithms is a
simple exercise, should it be necessary.
This code produces slightly better results in the EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH
case, since the filter is now applied in only one direction when
the subpel motion is only in one direction. Like the previous code,
the filtering is skipped entirely on full-pel MVs. This combination
seems to give the best quality gains, but this may be indicative of a
bug in the encoder's filter selection, since the encoder could
achieve the result of skipping the filtering on full-pel by selecting
one of the other filters. This should be revisited.
Quality gains on derf positive on almost all clips. The only clip
that seemed to be hurt at all datarates was football
(-0.115% PSNR average, -0.587% min). Overall averages 0.375% PSNR,
0.347% SSIM.
Change-Id: I7d469716091b1d89b4b08adde5863999319d69ff
This commit makes the NearestMV match the chosen
best reference MV. It can be a 0,0 or non zero vector
which means the the compound nearest mv mode can
combine a 0,0 and a non zero vector.
Change-Id: I2213d09996ae2916e53e6458d7d110350dcffd7a
This is identical to the later decisions made in encode_superblock().
This commit doesn't actually change anything, but makes the mbmi state
more consistent between the RD loop and the final encode result.
Change-Id: I9e735afb7c5a52e5b61728cb88c67ef9b9bf59be
The RD loop would change the pointer after the first mode (DC) was tested,
leading to corrupt block objects being provided for the others. This
would essentially render the i8x8 predictor useless.
Change-Id: I16c5906ca64fb34878ac32ce59af8974e4582bb8
First step in simplifying the segment mode and
segment EOB flags into a simpler segment skip
flag that implies 0,0 mv and EOB at position 0.
Change-Id: Ib750cac31a7a02dc21082580498efd9f7d8d72a5
Adds a flag to disable features that would inhibit frame parallel
decoding. This includes backward adaptation and MV sorting based
on search in ref frame buffer.
Also includes some minor clean-ups.
Change-Id: I434846717a47b7bcb244b37ea670c5cdf776f14d
Adds an error-resilient mode where frames can be continued
to be decoded even when there are errors (due to network losses)
on a prior frame. Specifically, backward updates are turned off
and probabilities of various symbols are reset to defaults at
the beginning of each frame. Further, the last frame's mvs are
not used for the mv reference list, and the sorting of the
initial list based on search on previous frames is turned off
as well.
Also adds a test where an arbitrary set of frames are skipped
from decoding to simulate errors. The test verifies (1) that if
the error frames are droppable - i.e. frame buffer updates have
been turned off - there are no mismatch errors for the remaining
frames after the error frames; and (2) if the error-frames are non
droppable, there are not only no decoding errors but the mismatch
PSNR between the decoder's version of the post-error frames and the
encoder's version is at least 20 dB.
Change-Id: Ie6e2bcd436b1e8643270356d3a930e8989ff52a5
Remove lst_fb_idx, gld_fb_idx, alt_fb_idx, refresh_last_frame,
refresh_golden_frame, refresh_alt_ref_frame from common. Gold/Alt are
encode side conventions. From the decoder's perspective, we want to be
dealing with numbered references.
Updates to active_ref 2 signal mode context switches, vestigial from
refresh_alt_ref_frame. This needs some clean up to make sense with
increased numbers of reference frames, as well as reimplementing the
swapping of alt/golden which was previously done using the
buffer-to-buffer copy mechanism removed in an earlier commit.
Change-Id: I7334445158b7666f9295d2a2dd22aa03f4485f58
