For coding block sizes <=16X16, if the block is determined to be skin,
then always allow for that block to be candidate for refresh. So if that
block happens to be on the boost segment(s), segment won't get reset to 0
and delta-q will be applied.
PSNR/SSIM metrics neutral (little/no change) on RTC clips.
Speed increase small/negligible (< 1%).
Some visual improvement on faces in a few RTC clips.
Change-Id: I6bf0fce6f39d820b491ce05d7c017ad168fce7d6
H/V intra mode was only enabled for bsize < 16x16,
enable it also for bsize=16x16.
Metrics are neutral with this change:
Overall very small gain (0.1%), small visual gain on some RTC clips.
Change-Id: Ib2d7a44382433bfc11cf324aa3cc5c382ea9e088
For testing implemented a fixed pattern and delta, 1 pass,
fixed Q, low delay mode.
This has not in any way been tuned or optimized.
Change-Id: Idf5ee179b277fa15d07a97f14f2ce5bbaae80a04
The one pass VBR mode selects a Q range based on a
moving average of recent Q values. This calculation
should have been excluding arf overlay frames as these
are usually coded at the highest allowed value. Their
inclusion skews the average and can cause it to drift
upwards even when the clip as a whole is undershooting.
As such it can undermine correct adaptation of the allowed
Q range especially for easy content.
Change-Id: I7d10fe4227262376aa2dc2a7aec0f1fd82bf11f9
Keep track of frame indexes for the references, and
constrain inter mode search for reference with same
temporal alignment.
Improves speed by about ~15%, no noticeable loss in
compression performance.
Change-Id: I5c407a8acca921234060c4fcef4afd7d734201c8
Lower the threshold for splitting 32x32->16x16 based on average variance,
and add lower bound condition for this split to occur. This prevents
unneccassry splitting for areas with very low variance.
Change-Id: Ibeb33b3d993632c2019f296eb87ef3b7e3568189
For non-rd variannce partition, speed >= 5:
Adjustments to reduce dragging artifcat of background area near
slow moving boundary.
-Decrease base threshold under low source noise conditions.
-Add condition to split 64x64/32x32 based on average variances
of lower level blocks.
PSNR/SSIM metrics go down ~0.7/0.9% on average on RTC set.
Visually helps to reduce dragging artifact on some rtc clips.
Change-Id: If1f0a1aef1ddacd67464520ca070e167abf82fac
This commit makes the sub8x8 block rate-distortion optimization
scheme use precise motion compensated prediction to compute the rd
cost. It fixes a potential buffer overflow issue related to sub8x8
motion search on scaled reference frame.
Change-Id: I4274992ef4f54eaacfde60db045e269c13aaa2de
This commit enables the new temporal filter system for VP9. For
speed 1, it improves the compression performance:
derf 0.54%
stdhd 1.62%
Change-Id: I041760044def943e464345223790d4efad70b91e
This change has been imported from VP9 and
alters the nature and use of exhaustive motion search.
Firstly any exhaustive search is preceded by a normal step search.
The exhaustive search is only carried out if the distortion resulting
from the step search is above a threshold value.
Secondly the simple +/- 64 exhaustive search is replaced by a
multi stage mesh based search where each stage has a range
and step/interval size. Subsequent stages use the best position from
the previous stage as the center of the search but use a reduced range
and interval size.
For example:
stage 1: Range +/- 64 interval 4
stage 2: Range +/- 32 interval 2
stage 3: Range +/- 15 interval 1
This process, especially when it follows on from a normal step
search, has shown itself to be almost as effective as a full range
exhaustive search with step 1 but greatly lowers the computational
complexity such that it can be used in some cases for speeds 0-2.
This patch also removes a double exhaustive search for sub 8x8 blocks
which also contained a bug (the two searches used different distortion
metrics).
For best quality in my test animation sequence this patch has almost
no impact on quality but improves encode speed by more than 5X.
Restricted use in good quality speeds 0-2 yields significant quality gains
on the animation test of 0.2 - 0.5 db with only a small impact on encode
speed. On most natural video clips, however, where the step search
is performing well, the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Iac24152ae239f42a246f39ee5f00fe62d193cb98
For non-rd variance partition: Adjust variance threhsold based
on noise level estimate. This change allows the adjustment to be
updated more frequently.
Change-Id: Ie2abf63bf3f1ee54d0bc4ff497298801fdb92b0d
For low resolutions, whem 4x4downsample is used for variance,
use the same force split (that is used for 8x8downsample) for 16x16 blocks.
No change in metrics. Small improvement visually.
Change-Id: I915b9895902d0b9a41e75d37fee1bf3714d2366d
This is so we may update level at any time (e.g., to be used
for setting thresholds in variance-based partition).
Change-Id: I32caad2271b8e03017a531f9ea456a6dbb9d49c7
Under certain denoising conditons, check for re-evaluation of
zero_last mode if best mode was golden reference.
Change-Id: Ic6cdfd175eef2f7d68606300c7173ab6654b3f6e
For non-rd variance partition: only allow minmax computation
(which currently has no arm-neon optimization) for speeds < 8.
Performance loss is small: On RTC set with speed 8, few clips lose ~2/3%,
average loss is < 1%.
Change-Id: Ia9414f4d0b77dc83c3e73ca8de5d903f64b425ce
Change initial state of noise level, and only update
denoiser with noise level when estimate is done.
Change-Id: If44090d29949d3e4927e855d88241634cdb395dc
