Move initialization of a some new "twopass" values
to the function vp9_init_second_pass() and some other
small changes.
Remove #if GROUP_ADAPTIVE_MAXQ as this is always
enabled now.
Change-Id: I1dbec2fd7c419779848aa987c4cd7824d4df8456
On scene-cut detected frames (i.e., high_source_sad = 1), use
nonrd_pick_partition (over choose_part + select_part), as
the nonrd_pick partitioning is generally better.
Small positive increase in metrics on ytlive set (~0.5 - 1%).
Negligle overall speed decrease, as its only used on scene-cut frames.
Only affects 1 pass vbr mode, speed = 5.
Change-Id: I07c89cbdc75f5bb16eb8e0e2773ead0980d2de5c
This reverts commit be12fefa4b
and commit 057c1c4034.
Also, the mismatch between the avx version and the
c version has been fixed.
BUG=https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1168
For a rt encode using 1080p@60fps material, up to 11% performance
improvement overall was seen.
Change-Id: Icd1f216209ebc6fc0b8da885f32f356fa4355ed0
The eob of a block is not perperly set when skip_recode is true,
thus triggering assert(eob <= default_eob) to fail.
Change-Id: Ifecbe33dce2dc4903e0a80bd384dc09bf0dd8a44
Code cleaup, use existing rolling_actual/target metrics instead,
set threshold to get same/similar effect.
Little/no change in metrics on ytlive set.
Change-Id: I74f3c3d0a143a9cf20dc9c3dee54c0f7e6a97a51
Add a max condition and lower the min value.
No change in behavior (metrics for yt live set) for the
default min/max_gf_interval=4/16 settings.
Small positive change when min/max_gf_interval=7/16
(for 60fps clips on ytlive set).
Change-Id: I1c1d72425c86c69419ea43fb9730130e81062f91
Increase in the damping used in adjusting the active Q range.
This does hurt rate accuracy a little in a few extreme cases
especially if the clip is very short*, but helps metrics.
* Note that the adjustment is applied at the GF/ARF group level based
on what happened in the last group. Hence for very short clips where
the length of a single group may be a significant % of the clip length
there is still scope for some drift that cannot be accommodated.
In practice most data points in our test sets are now much closer to target
than was previously the case with default settings and in some cases are
better even than they were with the command line undershoot and overshoot
parameter was set very low (e.g. 2%). For example in bridge_close at high rates
the old mechanism was unable to adapt enough to prevent extreme overshoot.
Change-Id: I634f8f0e015b5ee64a9f0ccaa2bcfdbc1d360489
Change to the calculation of the error divisor used in
get_twopass_worst_quality(). This follows on from other
changes to the rate control that impact the output of this
function.
Change-Id: I414fa9aa1e6a68a64dccea17c3712f44b8a0c10c
Changes to the function the redistributes bits from overshoot
or undershoot throughout the rest of the clip to respond more
quickly.
Change-Id: I90f10900cdd82cf2ce1d8da4b6f91eb5934310da
Added a factor based on the bit spend in the last arf group vs the
target to adjust the choice of the active worst quality in subsequent
groups.
Helps clips where previously there was a big overshoot or undershoot
to adapt and get closer to the target rate.
Change-Id: I67034b801679b99024409489a2273ea6fe23b8e6
The use of this value is preventing rate adjustment on clips
or sections that have very little motion but high noise and
this can give rise to some sections with massive overshoot.
Change-Id: I9a65c7c1148dc5d3a7d8b23e50fc1733f3661621
Skip intra-mode and some inter-modes (newmv, nearmv, nearestmv) for
golden frame if the variance got from choose_partitioning is very low.
Only for 1 pass real-time CBR mode and bsize >= 32x32, it has ~2.5%
speed up with less than 0.1% PSNR drop for rtc test set. Don't see
visual regression.
Change-Id: I70efbc95a1007231ae36f02c5b2fbf6cd35077ad
For non-rd pickmode:
best_pred_sad, computed for NEWMV-last, is only used for
skipping golden non-zero modes. Add condition to avoid this
computation if not used (i.e, if golden nonzero modes are not used).
And remove code for computing best_pred_sad for NEWMV-golden,
since that sad is not used.
No change in behavior; small speed gain (~1%) for svc encodes.
Change-Id: Ic2cbdef6c4e9a233a57c0db0eeac8ad5fcead366
Function level timing test shows about 27% time saving on
a Xeon E5-2680 v2 desktop.
Rename vp9_dct_sse2.c to vp9_dct_intrin_sse2.c for vp9 and
rename dct_sse2.c to dct_intrin_sse2.c for vp10 to avoid
duplicate basenames.
Actually vp9_fwht4x4_mmx/sse2() and vp10_fwht4x4_mmx/sse2()
are identical. TODO: They should be unified later if there is
no intention to keep a duplicate.
Change-Id: I3e537b7bbd9ba417c606cd7c68c4dbbfa583f77d
- Avoid excessive copying
- Don't both searching if no update can possibly offer savings
- Simplify the interface
- Remove the confusing vp9_cost_upd256 macro
Change-Id: Id9d9676a361fd1203b27e930cd29c23b2813ce59
vp9_diamond_search_sad_avx was disabled in:
057c1c4 disable vp9_diamond_search_sad_avx
this removes a missing prototype warning as the prototype is no longer
included in vp9_rtcd.h. the file can be restored if someone gets around
to fixing the issue.
BUG=https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1168
Change-Id: Ia9fda4b81c53dc5fba7c31d780d761f886940b52
Move the logic for rechecking zeromv on denoised block out to simplify
the function. To simplify the param passing, add a new structure
VP9_PICKMODE_CTX_DEN which is only used when denoiser is enabled.
Change-Id: Iaa9b4396dfcb8147236c02d4a1868a09103a4476
Rename and change to how its updated.
Only affects 1 pass vbr.
Small change in metrics (< ~0.1%) on ytlive set.
Change-Id: Ibb1fe485699b6c4a8194951c8f229abe2f64b9a5
Added actual and absolute rate miss values to the opsnr.stt
stats output line.
Changes to the borg graphing may be needed before merge.
Change-Id: I1e9d548ce445d29002f0c59ebfd3957a6f15e702
Bug found by Yunqing relating to the correction for size at 8K and
above in get_twopass_worst_quality().
The basis for the correction was changed to the linear size relative to
1080P as a baseline and the adjustment has been clamped to prevent
problems at extreme images sizes.
For 1080P the results on our test sets were neutral but the low res and
mid res sets saw a small gain (0.1%-0.2% average).
I would also expect some gains on 4k and larger content where the
previous correction was overly aggressive.
Change-Id: I30b026b5f4535e9601e3178d738066459d19c8fb
Add control API VP9E_SET_TARGET_LEVEL that allows the encoder to
control the output bitstream level and/or keep level related
statistics.
Usage:
255 do not care about level (default)
0 keep level related stats only
10 target for level 1
11 target for level 1.1
.
.
.
62 target for level 6.2
Usage for vpxenc:
--target-level=0/255/10/11...
Change-Id: I31d1aeca19358b893e7577b4e63748c8e614034a
block_variance: This operates on 8x8s and would be safe with a int32 *
int32 to uint32 multiply, but this is potentially unsafe for 12-bit
input. Unfortunately the code already segfaults on 12-bit input:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1223
calculate_variance: This operates on up to a 32x32 of 8x8s and can
overflow even with 8-bit input (log2((256*32*32)**2) == 36).
BUG=https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1220
Change-Id: I1ca4ff6092db9a7580da371ee9a21f403fdadc40
Reduce factor for setting base-qp for active_best_quality (for inter-frames).
Small increase in metrics on yt live set.
Change-Id: I9cf0ac797783aeddbfaf1ff510696c9035d7c5ee
* changes:
vp9_frame_scale_ssse3.c: make 2 functions static
vp9_pickmode.c: make function static
vp9_noise_estimate.c: make function static
vp9_aq_360.c: add missing include
vp9_idct_intrin_sse2: add missing vp9_rtcd.h include
vpx_dsp/*.[hc]: add missing vpx_dsp_rtcd.h include
Makes the delta-qp stop little earlier on areas that have been refreshed enough.
This helps to reduce some pulsing artifact on noisy flat areas observed in some
noisy vc-clips.
Threshold changes only take effect for sources where noise level is estimated to
be >= medium level.
Only affects 1 pass CBR, non-screen content case.
Change-Id: Iacf557f6aa8abbcd6782c02ff2e6c14891960850
For 1 pass vbr mode:
Refactor to move the logic for gf setting based on up-coming
key frames to a separate function, so same logic can be used for
scene-cuts/changes.
Change-Id: Ic4ede308e08ba869bb62e4566e19ea31222c5229
Makes the noise estimation react little faster.
Little/no change in metrics.
Change only affects 1 pass cbr.
Change-Id: I13f0daa90ecbf9d49eb1cf2e48febd9d92292940
"qc" in vp{9,10}_token_state is used to save quantized coefficients, this
commit changes the type from short to tran_low_t to properly reflect
the value range for highbitdepth build.
This fixes an out-of-range bug when optimize_b is used in highbitdepth
build.
Change-Id: Ibf330879e6ac6ae8f099e085caa9d3d9a889fde8
This is an actual overflow where the result of the calculation is
materially changed, not just a negative value that is stored in an
unsigned.
Caught with fsanitize=integer on the VP9/AqSegmentTest.TestNoMisMatchAQ2/1 test.
Change-Id: I514b0ef4ae7ad50e3e08c0079aa204d59fa679aa
Move skin superblock force split out of this function as well
as some minor code refactors. Checked bitexact for different speed
settings and different resolutions.
Change-Id: I6078cbe88dd9ce6c0b69470a8a0a8f8d2274161b
First, we only set use_4x4_partition for key frame where we don't
denoise; second, envision we have small partitions, we should pass the
actual block size to denoiser and make an early termination if needed.
Change-Id: I331f42046d792b17360723d17ff817d601394658
Wrap around behavior is enforced manually and we use the values in
arithmetic involving negative integers.
Change-Id: I199706b6f3af91f4fb6fe2ef302fbbc6d0cf5785
Block size passed into denoiser filter is always >= BLOCK_8X8 (in
vp9_pick_inter_mode), it is not necessary to check smaller block
size. Passed the bitexact test on clips with different resolutions and
noise levels.
Change-Id: I19fa3195d18c27d9e5de60dc11cff1522ef3714e
Fix will reset the consec_zero_mv map on non-skipped blocks with non-zero mv.
Adjust thresholds on consec_zero_mv in noise estimation and skin detection,
as more possible reset on map means lower thresholds should be used.
Change-Id: Ibe8520057472b3609585260b51b6f95a38fb777d
In VP9 internal denoiser, motion magnitude is computed from
best_sse_mv, which should be set to 0 at the begining. This bug may
cause visual aritifact in denoiser. Also, delete two improper comments.
Change-Id: I8710d2acba23320bc85cf72af17d65245c19438b
Need to check that sse for non-zero mv has been set for the current block
(i.e., check that nonzero-mv is tested as a mode, so newmv_sse != UINT_MAX)
before forcing to not use zero-mv for denoising.
Also increase some thresholds (sse and sse_diff) for high noise case,
and use shift operaton instead of multiplication on a threshold computation.
Change-Id: Iae7339475d57240316b7fa8b887c4ee3c0d0dbec
Resolved two TODO items.
Force a minimum value of 1.0 for frame duration as per section duration.
Column inactive zone is currently set to 0 as most of the serious issues
relating to inactive regions relate to letter boxing.
Change-Id: Ifbab3acf2c089d7305620a7ff7ed7c3536cc9235
In Aq mode 1 the segment and AQ delta for each block is based
on spatial variance. There may be a net imbalance between blocks
that have lower Q than the baseline value and those that have higher Q.
This patch monitors that imbalance and extends the allowed baseline
Q range for the frame to accommodate adjustment of that baseline value
to compensate.
Change-Id: Iae8a48c7c01fe2af94a141e149d03acf467237ca
So it can be used even with aq-mode=3 not enabled.
Also cleans up some code in the places where its used.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: Ib6b265308dbd483f691200da9a0be4da4b380dbc
For 1 pass vbr mode.
Increase the gf interval for case where average Q is close to
max and high overshoot is detected.
Small increase in overall avg_psnr/sssim metrics (~0.2/0.1%) for ytlive,
but improves the low-end (low bitrate) for several clips (less overshoot).
Change-Id: Ifba40f25b4861b2e0d9832c82d5359a6a3dce9f2
More even spacing near key frame and avoid gf on scene cut
if its close to key frame.
Small increase in metrics for ytlive set (which uses key-period=150).
(~0.2% gain)
Change only affects 1 pass vbr mode.
Change-Id: If1e5a59baf1e0befbaf998522fbc47d94ac5b5df
Change only affects 1 pass vbr.
Use a q value somewhat larger (~6%) than avg_frame_qindex[INTER]
as basis for active_best_quality for inter-frames.
And use the minium of this (avg_frame_qindex) and the active_worst_quality.
This reduces some overshoot in ytlive clips.
Overall small but positive average increase in metrics (up on average ~0.2%).
Change-Id: Icdbaae7872d5675fd38a13c0ec6ce0e2e3b919ce
Change recursive weight for average_source_sad and
put some constraint on spacing between detected scene-cuts.
Change only affects 1 pass real-time mode.
Change-Id: I1917e748d845e244812d11aec2a9d755372ec182
Correct the setting of Q basis of GF/ARF in 1 pass vbr.
Existing logic would switch to using avg_QP of key frame if
avg_QP of inter is less than active worst (even if key frame is
not last frame).
Instead fix the logic (as per the comment) to use the lower of
active_worst_quality and avg_Q for inter as basis for GF/ARF
active_best_quality (unless last frame was key frame).
Increase in metrics: AvgPSNR/SSIM up by ~0.7/0.3 on ytlive set.
Change-Id: I9a628378ec6684bfda9457ebfc2384ef6d8579f7
Adjustment to stop excessive prediction decay triggered by blocks
or frames with extremely low spatial complexity which rendered the
comparison of intra and inter coded errors meaningless.
This was causing much shorter than expected groups on some 4k
test content.
Change-Id: I3f2c64200ef6dcef4721fc9f2ec09e480056ffc2
Uses a metric on fraction of smooth blocks derived from first pass
stats in a frame to adjust down the cq_level modestly in the cq mode.
The current implementation does not add much complexity, and is
fairly light in the adaptation.
Change-Id: Ic484e810d5bd51b7bb6b8945f378c7c3d9d27053
Adjust the motion decay component to account for image size.
This has very little impact for smaller image sizes.
Average bdrate results for our HD test sets:-
Hdres set: opsnr +0,92%, Fast SSIM +1.6%
Netflix hd set: opsnr + 1.5%, Fast SSIM +3.1%
There are a couple of notable -ve clips such as cyclist and sunflower
which seem to be better with a shorter interval but also a few very big
wins such as Jets >12% psnr 22% Fast SSIM and from the Netflix
Netflix set PierSeaside 9.7% psnr and 18.2% Fast SSIM.
Change-Id: Ie43aaedaa74331ed83d624a13548094ac64fed9e
Change only affects 1 pass vbr mode, speed >=5.
Increase min_thresh, decrease boost, and set a min/max
value for gf_interval.
Change-Id: I9c1e1a1ab0c5780064eb62714ee39a72ea4d2107
Trap the case where we end up with a very short arf group just before
a key frame. Such a group often has poor quality and may cause pulsing.
For example if the KF is 17 frames away we are better doing two mid-size
groups of 9 and 8 than a group of 15 followed by a group of 2.
This becomes more and more important when coding with a short forced
kf interval though it may not impact our standard tests much.
Change-Id: I29d83d6637b203eac69be320dd35a7401a4678c1
Avoid copy-block when denoising is at LowLow level (i.e., no denoising is done).
Instead, don't enter denoiser at all, and when level goes back up over kLowLow
do a reset in denoiser.
Change-Id: I0544adf58f4dd51ecc4a4607fcb0353bfbbb7a59
This make it more likely clean/low-noise content will
be set as LowLow, and hence no denoising will be done.
Also set early exit on denoising for small blocks.
Change-Id: I4a72bba3e6c5e2d523d304c39deacc9c39bf216c
Some cleanup and bugfix: pass mi_row/mi_col (not mv_col/mv_row)
to build_inter_predictors. This only affects case where
the frame is resized, but since denoising is not done on resized
frames, the fix has not effect currently.
Change-Id: I36617a7f0b43b6f49976745f15d400977e6ffa46
Change only affects 1 pass, vbr, speed = 5 (real-time mode).
Some improvement for high motion content.
AvgPSNR/SSIM metrics for ytlive set all up, on average ~2%,
some clips (high motion ones) up 4/5%.
Encoder speed down: on mynintendo_x1.1280_720.y4m: 47fps -> 44fps.
Change-Id: I9e3eaa6392dcb6b5b44ee6f43004f97ba859bc11
Allow the encode loop to select from a wider range of Q values
when encoding normal (non arf or kf) frames.
This change is targeted at improving psycho-visual quality in some
easy sections that are currently not getting enough bits.
This is likely to be a little worse from a metrics perspective and may also
have a small impact on encode speed in cases where extra recode
iterations are triggered.
Change-Id: I667eebf33c753bcbcf8b93596467369e5708b889
Adds a second threshold for recodes even on frames where
recode is normally disabled if there is a big rate miss.
Change-Id: Ifd4a34707da55ec15eb7cfb87de4644b8d76deb2
Fix the threshold for forcing refresh of golden frame based
on high motion. The current comparison was incorrect and
prevented this (force update of gf on high motion) from being used.
For now keep this logic under a flag (and off for now) so as to
not change behavior, until further testing.
Change-Id: Ib5f0082159a428b0603b9534e4bcb6f83e4ccb25
+5.857% BD-RATE on SCREEN_CONTENT
Leaving this off for non-screen content because:
+25.300% on TWITCH120
+37.833% BD-RATE on RTC
Change-Id: Ie0a312182d6cc859fb04298e4cd81d02b39e23fe
For 1 pass vbr mode: Increase the period of gf update on scene
cut (keep it same as orginal/default setting for now).
Change-Id: I679c3bd21152f6c4e486c8098d931c00e1d26b5f
The change https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/329181/
also changed behavior for cbr mode, which causes some regression
in screenshare test in webrtc.
Resetting the specific change to leave the cbr behavior
unchanged for now.
Change-Id: I52df158806422f86398e1d2f522e92067d8325eb
Some adjustments to inter-mode selection for vbr mode.
Condition some of the bias to low/zero motion on cbr mode, and
don't use int_pro_motion_estimation for golden ref
(treat it same as last ref).
Change only affect 1 pass vbr mode, speed >=5 (non-rd pickmode).
Encoding time increase within ~5%.
Avg PSNR/SSIM on RTC set increase by ~2%, all clips up,
ranging from 0.5 to 4%.
Change-Id: I0048d0104a8816773d91a2b1484d601169d9bad7
Don't advance the svc frame counters on dropped frame,
since this can break the referencing scheme and lead
to a crash/assert.
Updated svc-datarate unittest to add a lower bitrate test.
Change only affects 1 pass cbr svc, with frame dropper enabled.
Change-Id: Ibb7530b7a587a9344d46898d9286fd9e2ef0779c
Use the superframe counter to set the key frame, and force
it to the key frame on base spatial layer only.
Also, update svc frame counters under frame dropping.
Update unittest: add specific tests with short key frame period.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1150
Change-Id: I5b1c9a09253e6e5fbfce51b4cf603ae22d422b01
For 1 pass cbr mode: allow for two-stage 1:2 scaling
(which will use the 1:2 optimized scaler) if the spatial
layer is 1/4x1/4 of souce.
Without this change, the base layer for 3 spatial layers would
be using the non-normative scaler which is un-optimized/C code.
Change-Id: I9d73f92a4a96927d0f1d6bf75315c1e60513226a
Use sharp filter to generate motion compensated reference for
temporal filtering. It improves the average coding performance of
VP9 speed 0:
derf 0.34%
hevcmr 0.38%
stdhd 0.58%
Change-Id: I1772a051be545de8c343055274e5ca0929d19cda
This commit back ports the fix from
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/326940
It corrects the block partition context fetching in rate-distortion
optimization. It improves the average coding performance of speed 0:
derf 0.098%
hevcmr 0.102%
stdhd 0.282%
Change-Id: I8bcc6fe40ba5c6b50a6136daac116dcc738937ec
The double pointer in xd->mi handles this for us.
Cuts encode_suberblock()'s self time in half at rt speed 8.
Change-Id: I820dae24efdbf9a140bbeae82e4e2a5850317766
This reverts commit f51f0998e1.
This causes datarate tests to fail. Some are due to the new default
keyframe distance, another causes an assert even forcing 9999:
[ RUN ] VP9/DatarateOnePassCbrSvc.OnePassCbrSvc3SpatialLayers/0
test_libvpx:
vpx_dsp/x86/vpx_subpixel_8t_intrin_ssse3.c:853: scaledconvolve2d:
Assertion `y_step_q4 <= 32' failed.
Change-Id: I4ee4fea97f47e4f1a23b82a62e6afc6280961e38
Reset the scale factors before build_inter_predictors.
Add datarate tests for 3 spatial layers, which exposed this issue.
Change-Id: I7f81efbe44345ecea9fdd5f639a4cca76aed3874
For 1 pass cbr mode: allow for two-stage 1:2 scaling
(which will use the 1:2 optimized scaler) if the spatial
layer is 1/4x1/4 of souce.
Without this change, the base layer for 3 spatial layers would
be using the non-normative scaler which is un-optimized/C code.
Change-Id: Ifcf526ec2aaf3e5fa7924588d9dd8660bf02fb46
Use the existing scene/content change detection to better
update/adjust golden frame refresh.
Change only affects 1 pass real-time vbr mode, speed >=5.
Change-Id: I2963a5bb7ca4a19f8cf8511b0a925e502f60e014
Don't initialize first pass costs for a number of symbols where first
pass probabilities aren't initialized.
This brings a 1.22x first pass speedup.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1089
Change-Id: I97438c357bd88f52f5a15c697031cf0c3cc8f510
move to encoder_encode() as vp9_get_compressed_data() allocates data and
would require some modification to make its error return meaningful.
Change-Id: I8ddc390a1441afd0ff937842fa4ad1053c956133
Add frame-level condition for reference masking: under external or
internal dynamic resize, allow for reference masking if none of
the references have been scaled.
Peviously, reference masking was turned off for the stream if dynamic
resize feature was enabled or an external resize event occurred.
reference_masking gives speed up with little/no loss in compression.
For speed 7 on rtc set: encoding time decreases by about 5-7%,
avgPSNR/SSIM goes down ~0.2%.
Change-Id: Ie4444577451ef954414d8fb4b2c99d65cadf1746
This commit fixes issue 1141. The issue was triggered in multi-tile
encoding. The change properly saves and restores the block context
information in the real-time mode selection process. It removes
several redundant memcpy operations in sub8x8 intra block mode search.
Change-Id: I35c9ad197f4bd500ec39b5fc833f052f19eee010
External dynamic resize with swapping width and height was
not handled properly.
Fix is to re-init loop-filter under certain condtions.
Modify unittest to test this case.
Without this change test will fail.
Relates to: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1140
Change-Id: I7d81ca7fe0783b3bc103a52a7b7cf073a96be26e
allocations done within this function are protected with
vpx_internal_error; adding the setjmp fixes a crash in
vp9_lookahead_push() under low memory conditions.
Change-Id: I4b79dca37cc7fadc4b7633f0db44c0e406799bc6
An issue exists with reference_masking in non-rd pickmode for spatial
scaling. It was kept off for internal dynamic resizing and svc, this
change is to keep it off also for external dynamic resizing.
Update to external resize test, and update TODO to re-enable this
at frame level when references have same scale as source.
Change-Id: If880a643572127def703ee5b2d16fd41bdbf256c
The bit to error transformation got doubled as a result of going from
8-bit to 9-bit costs (change d13385c).
Use defines to derive the scale numbers and comment some of the fields.
derf: -0.023 BDRATE
hevcmr: +0.067 BDRATE
stdhd: +0.098 BDRATE
(These are substantially smaller than than the original gains from 8 to
9 bit costing.)
Change-Id: I6a2b3b029b2f1415e4f90a05709b2333ec0eea9b
When the codec frame size is the same as the reference frame size,
release the scaled reference before assigning it a new buf_idx.
Only affects 1 pass non-svc mode, where the scaled references are
release only under certain conditions (to prevent un-needed scaling
of the references every frame).
Modified a unittest that can trigger this bug without this change.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=582598
Change-Id: I9a884e36ebd7608b1641ec2a469e20a4f829cf43
If the application changes frame size (external size changes),
and aq-mode=3 is on, reset the cyclic refresh.
Modify the TestExternalResize unittest (longer run with more resize
actions). Without this change an assert would be triggered on this
longer test.
Change-Id: I0eefd2cd7ffa0c557cca96ae30d607034a2599ce
Make this consistent with regular block size rate-distortion
optimization. It improves the compression performance:
derf 0.055%
hevcmr 0.129%
Change-Id: I112fe734f592c21bc7aa6efb7e3f269c4214ee7b
For 1 pass real-time mode. No change in behavior as only last
and golden are used as references in 1 pass real-time mode.
Change-Id: Ie4655014eee1a8b271542f29d74b2c6f7fed54c9
delete apply_cyclic_refresh_bitrate(). unused since:
3472cbb vp9 aq-mode=3: Keep it on even at low bitrates.
Change-Id: I0fac9a31b59504e31000ac3a8f0b68e8d4320113
The definition is for the number of frames to check to determine the
recent decay rate, further to determine the next key frame in the
first pass of the encoder.
Change-Id: Ic696d6eb518a86fa296842273cf8767ef0b0e27a
-use larger threshold on y (as in vp8).
-add distance threshold for each cluster
-use larger skin distance threshold for first cluster
-add some early exist checks.
Keep default setting to model=0.
Change-Id: I1044b99ade4bb1f215a860a019a4d84cee2f7715
It improves the compression performance of VP9 by 0.1% across all
test sets. No speed change is observed.
Change-Id: I59338c5c9e67bae22188f35fc3afbfe2a6bba6b0
The postproc vp9_denoise() is a spatial denoise/blur function.
It was not intended to be used if temporal denoising is enabled.
Change-Id: I97d2dcb941e7cc49bbafce99d9286beb2693249d
Put check to avoid possible out of bounds when looping
over the blocks to estimate noise level.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I4b7b19b7edee0ae1c35b9dc0700b1bf9b304d7f5
the lookahead buffer allocation is deferred to receipt of the first
frame to allow profile changes. if the encoder was flushed before
supplying any frames the encoder would crash trying to dereference the
NULL buffer. vp8 is unaffected.
fixes mozilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237848
Change-Id: Icee4b64de760476eee0d33b568f0a1010335ff13
Use multiple clusters instead of one and decrease
the distance thresholds.
Add a define to switch between models.
Default is set to existing (1 cluster) model.
Change-Id: I802cd9bb565437ae8983ef39453939f5d5073bb1
If a superblock contains alot of "skin" then force split
of 64x64 partition, and make some adjustments in mode selection.
This helps to reduce artifacts on moving face/skin areas at low bitrates.
Little/no change in metrics: avgPSNR/SSIM down by ~0.12%.
Small encoding time increase < 1%.
Change-Id: Ic57f52148c3716f391419fab0530d916e4c1d186
For aqmode=3, golden period update is set based on period of cyclic refresh.
Put a limit on max golden period update, for now set to 40.
And fix comment.
Change-Id: Icb61dd87c796cce2a5f5f7331c6a129540994696
Limit oscilation detection in the case where overshoot is very very
large.
This keeps the 9-bit cost patch from breaking the DownUp reisze test.
The patch pushed us to an 11% undershoot right before a scene cut
causing a 1200% overshoot. (Whereas before we were undershooting by
only 6% before overshooting by 1200%).
Change-Id: Id90ccfab8aba872ccadc45b73b3bb097b895677f
In inter mode search skip all modes except NEARESTMV and DC_PRED.
10% less encode latency for large frames using the chromium remoting_perftests.
+0.313% BDRATE on the screencast set at speed -6.
Change-Id: Ib97a39dd8bcdeab545509e0e02d78ce7033f8c63
Changes to mode selection for 1 pass SVC mode:
use base layer motion vector, changes to intra-prediction.
Change-Id: I3e883aa04db521cfa026a0b12c9478ea35a344c9
This patch fixes a bug that causes the loop filter search to reset to
a low value or zero after each arf overlay frame. We expect the overlay
frames to need little or no loop filtering but this should not propagate.
Change-Id: I895b28474cf200f20d82793f3de40b60b19579fd
This is a pure-refactor in preparation to potentially raise the bit-cost
resolution.
Verified at good speed 0 and rt speed -6.
Change-Id: I5347e6e8c28a9ad9dd0aae1d76a3d0f3c2335bb9
More aggresive on avoiding denoising on skin.
May supplement this later by adding condtion onn consec_zeromv.
Change-Id: Ied92b332f9b24e821d2009f81d1565758588d9a5
Different quality levels are used for different regions in
the frame depending on how far they are vertically from the
center. Specifically, three segments are used based on the
mi_row index with respect number to the number of mi_rows in
the frame.
Change-Id: Ifc8b777bc58ea8521dffc4640360c67d99f8d381
This commit enables encoder to avoid 8x4 and 4x8 partitions for
scaled reference frames when libvpx is configured and built with
--enable-better-hw-compatibility
Change-Id: I02ad65c386f5855f4325d72570c49164ed52f413
Move the logic for forcing zero_mode after the
(ref_frame & flag_list) check.
This was causing an memory leak under msan:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=5402
Change-Id: Ie9d243369f8ed7c332f46178275945331da4fd85
Add function to compute skin map for a given block, as its
used in several places (cyclic refresh, noise estimation, and denoising).
Change-Id: Ied622908df43b6927f7fafc6c019d1867f2a24eb
Set initial values for these parameters in the vp9_init_layer_context().
This also fixes an issue in the svc-bypass mode when frame flags are
passed via the vpx_codec_encode().
Change-Id: I0968f04672f8d3d2fe2cea6b8a23f79f80d7a8b1
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
For denoising, and for noise level above threshold, re-evaluate
ZEROMV for mode selection after denoising.
Current change only does this check if selected best mode (before denoising)
was intra.
Change-Id: I4b1435b68d26c78f7597b995ee7bff0ddd5f9511
This change makes sure last reference with zero mv
is always checked for mode selection.
No change in metrics.
Change-Id: Iaf01877bf34272b966c78bfe18daad882a0a419e
the final sum may use up to 26 bits
+ add a unit test
+ disable the sse2 as the result will rollover; this will be fixed in a
future commit
Change-Id: I2a49811dfaa06abfd9fa1e1e65ed7cd68e4c97ce
Change on affects 1 pass CBR.
On key frame, temporal layer_id is reset to 0 for 1 pass CBR,
but since "layer" is reset, the svc.layer_context[layer].is_key_frame
was not correspondingly set properly.
Change-Id: I08f6da0a55ac7429ccfbaddfb7be14479e43543b
Small changes to the best quality default speed trade off.
Some speedup settings are worth while even for best quality as they
have only a very small impact on quality but a significant impact on
encode time.
These changes give as much as a further 50-60% increase in encode
speed for my test animations clip with minimal impact on quality.
For this sequence these changes improve the best quality encode speed
to about the same level as good quality speed 0 in Q3 2015 whilst
retaining the large quality gain of over 1 db
For many natural videos though the quality difference from good 0
to best is much smaller.
Change-Id: I28b3840009d77e129817a78a7c41e29cb03e1132
This change 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 clips though the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Id22967a840e996e1db273f6ac4ff03f4f52d49aa
This function now has an AVX intrinsics version which is about 80%
faster compared to the C implementation. This provides a 2-4% total
speed-up for encode, depending on encoding parameters. The function
utilizes 3 properties of the cost function lookup table, constructed
in 'cal_nmvjointsadcost' and 'cal_nmvsadcosts'.
For the joint cost:
- mvjointsadcost[1] == mvjointsadcost[2] == mvjointsadcost[3]
For the component costs:
- For all i: mvsadcost[0][i] == mvsadcost[1][i]
(equal per component cost)
- For all i: mvsadcost[0][i] == mvsadcost[0][-i]
(Cost function is even)
These must hold, otherwise the AVX version of the function cannot be used.
Change-Id: I6c2791d43022822a9e6ab43cd124a773946d0bdc
Change is only for real-time mode, speed >= 5, and non-screen content mode.
Add bias to zero/low motion for big blocks, if noise estimation
is enabled and noise level is above threshold.
Change-Id: I3a0a4608ede6aa535bda6eca528d20f8aba738e7
For 1 pass CBR mode: increase waiting time after key frame
before we start sampling rate control behavior for determining
resize. This change need to disable one internal resize(DownUp)
temporally since it requires a longer clip to do so.
Change-Id: If21beda1be23f169ee541ab4dd642f718347887a
Use same setting for speed 5 (as it is for speed > 5).
Change is only for real-time (non-rd) mode.
Change-Id: I830250eac654328373cb318baa89d4f0e63942e1
Reduces Linux perf estimated cycle count for pack_mb_tokens on a
lossless encode on my desktop from 61858501855 to 48154040219 or from
26% of the overall profile to 21%.
Change-Id: I9ca3426d7e3272bc7f7030abda4f0d0cec87fb4a
This reverts commit f1342a7b07.
This breaks 32-bit builds:
runtime error: load of misaligned address 0xf72fdd48 for type 'const
__m128i' (vector of 2 'long long' values), which requires 16 byte
alignment
+ _mm_set1_epi64x is incompatible with some versions of visual studio
Change-Id: I6f6fc3c11403344cef78d1c432cdc9147e5c1673
Add threshold/condition on spatial_variance and brightness level.
Modification to normalization of block variance.
Change resolution limit below which we disable noise estimation.
Change-Id: If5be08a26ceda351242d8a58d2f0bc88c0a918f0
This function now has an AVX intrinsics version which is about 80%
faster compared to the C implementation. This provides a 2-4% total
speed-up for encode, depending on encoding parameters. The function
utilizes 3 properties of the cost function lookup table, constructed
in 'cal_nmvjointsadcost' and 'cal_nmvsadcosts'.
For the joint cost:
- mvjointsadcost[1] == mvjointsadcost[2] == mvjointsadcost[3]
For the component costs:
- For all i: mvsadcost[0][i] == mvsadcost[1][i]
(equal per component cost)
- For all i: mvsadcost[0][i] == mvsadcost[0][-i]
(Cost function is even)
These must hold, otherwise the AVX version of the function cannot be used.
Change-Id: I184055b864c5a2dc37b2d8c5c9012eb801e9daf6
Change is only for real-time mode, speed > 5, and non-screen content mode.
Bias is based on block size and motion vector level (motion above some threshold).
Helps to improves stability in background from lightning changes.
PSNR/SSIM metrics on RTC set almost no change/neutral (within +/- 0.1).
Change-Id: I7eac13c1ae10be4ab1f40acc7f9f1df5653ece9d
Only use non-zero threshold(s) for breakout if
the motion level of the current tested mode is low.
Change-Id: I22aae961cc42371b49d3f648560181cc54708502
Source noise level estimate is also useful for
setting variance encoder parameters (variance thresholds,
qp-delta, mode selection, etc), so allow it to be used also
if denoising is not on.
Change-Id: I4fe23d47607b4e17a35287057f489c29114beed1
Width and height of downscaling resolution should not be lower
than min_width and min_height which can be set as needed, both
are 180 for now.
Change-Id: I34d06704ea51affbdd814246e22ee8d41d991f00
Adjust variance threshold, delta-qp, and intra penalty cost,
based on estimated noise level in source.
Replace denoising_on with a level value=L/M/H.
Change-Id: I0c017dae75a5d897367d2c42dec26f2f37e447c1
Bug relating to issue:- http://b/25090786
base_frame_target is supposed to track the idealized bit
allocation based on error score and not the actual bits
allocated to each frame.
The clamping of this value based on the VBR min and max pct values
was causing a bug where in some cases the loop that adjusts the
active max quantizer for each GF group was running out of bits at
the end of a KF group. This caused a spike in Q and some ugly artifacts.
A second change makes sure that the calculation of the active
Q range for a group DOES, however, take account of clamping.
Change-Id: I31035e97d18853530b0874b433c1da7703f607d1
Periodically estiamte noise level in source, and only denoise
if estimated noise level is above threshold.
Change-Id: I54f967b3003b0c14d0b1d3dc83cb82ce8cc2d381
A new version of vp9_highbd_error_8bit is now available which is
optimized with AVX assembly. AVX itself does not buy us too much, but
the non-destructive 3 operand format encoding of the 128bit SSEn integer
instructions helps to eliminate move instructions. The Sandy Bridge
micro-architecture cannot eliminate move instructions in the processor
front end, so AVX will help on these machines.
Further 2 optimizations are applied:
1. The common case of computing block error on 4x4 blocks is optimized
as a special case.
2. All arithmetic is speculatively done on 32 bits only. At the end of
the loop, the code detects if overflow might have happened and if so,
the whole computation is re-executed using higher precision arithmetic.
This case however is extremely rare in real use, so we can achieve a
large net gain here.
The optimizations rely on the fact that the coefficients are in the
range [-(2^15-1), 2^15-1], and that the quantized coefficients always
have the same sign as the input coefficients (in the worst case they are
0). These are the same assumptions that the old SSE2 assembly code for
the non high bitdepth configuration relied on. The unit tests have been
updated to take this constraint into consideration when generating test
input data.
Change-Id: I57d9888a74715e7145a5d9987d67891ef68f39b7
Added optimization of the 8 bit assembly quantizer routines. This makes
these functions up to 100% faster, depending on encoding parameters.
This patch maskes the encoder faster in both the high bitdepth and 8bit
configurations. In the high bitdepth configuration, it effects profile 0
only.
Based on my profiling using 1080p input the net gain is between 1-3% for
the 8 bit config, and around 2.5-4.5% for the high bitdepth config,
depending on target bitrate. The difference between the 8 bit and high
bitdepth configurations for the same encoder run is reduced by 1% in all
cases I have profiled.
Change-Id: I86714a6b7364da20cd468cd784247009663a5140
Adjust the qp threshold and consec_zeromv threshold for
limiting cyclic refresh. Also increase the refresh period
when the limit amount is significant, and some code-cleanup.
Small gain in PSNR/SSIM metrics: ~0.25/0.3 gain on RTC set, speed 7.
Change only affects non-screen content.
Change-Id: I1ced87a89a132684c071e722616e445b2d18236a
Adjust the qp threshold based on the denoising setting; not allow
to scale directly from original resolution to one half and vise versa.
Change-Id: I032a9b22f8e1c88de6bb81cf8351367223a3e40d
For the re-encoding (at max-qp) on the detected high-content change:
update rate correction factor, reset rate over/under-shoot flags,
and update/reset the rate control for layered coding.
Change-Id: I5dc72bb235427344dc87b5235f2b0f31704a034a
Changes to the breakout behavior for partition selection.
The biggest impact is on speed 0 where encode speed in
some cases more than doubles with typically less than 1%
impact on quality.
Speed 0 encode speed impact examples
Animation test clip: +128%
Park Joy: +59%
Old town Cross: + 109%
Change-Id: I222720657e56cede1b2a5539096f788ffb2df3a1
If high bit depth configuration is enabled, but encoding in profile 0,
the code now falls back on optimized SSE2 assembler to compute the
block errors, similar to when high bit depth is not enabled.
Change-Id: I471d1494e541de61a4008f852dbc0d548856484f
The artifact occurs periodically when VP9 denoiser is on and
refresh_golden_frame happen. When refresh_golden_frame happen,
we should copy the frame buffer instead of swapping the pointers.
Change-Id: Ib3204c4b04db28ecf439c6d9e61f3d146f04196d
Small code cleanup. consec_zeromv refresh threshold
does not need to be computed for every super-block.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I8c4b1b28072f42b01d917fff6d1f62722f1e1554
