When the variance is far less than sse, the block is considered to
be under light change. All the energy is compacted into DC coeff
and can be coded at low cost. In such situation, switch the rate-
distortion modeling from sse+var based back to variance based.
Note that this is a temporary solution to handle the rare situations
where the scene light changes.
Change-Id: I1ee0fe2b9eda6b5fac40152e1841bf23f4d229fd
This commit introduces a chessboard pattern search for the prediction
filter type search. It runs extensive search in alternate blocks and
allows the rest blocks to refer coding decisions of their nearby
neighbors.
For pedestrian 1080p at 4000 kbps, the runtime of speed -5 goes down
from 43990 ms to 42200 ms. The overall compression performance for
RTC set is changed by -1.37%.
Change-Id: Icfe220c49451cda796f0ca91d935c9ed01e56c9d
This commit allows the non-RD mode decision flow to select
prediction filter type in NEWMV mode. It provides 8.14% compression
performance gains in both settings of AQ=0 and 3. The current speed
impact is about 5% to 10% slower.
Change-Id: Id66ecebf77abd8f90fb3f6a066c0e8dfb4bf1c42
This commit estimates the motion vector rate cost right after full
pixel motion search. It combines this and the mode cost and compares
the corresponding rate-distortion cost. If it is already above the
current best one, skip the rest sub-pixel motion search and modeling
process. For pedestrian_area 1080p at 4000 kpbs, the speed -5 runtime
goes down from 39425 ms -> 38399 ms.
Change-Id: If4cd7119fd6c266798d5cf1d19d19ab425e52a26
This commit reduces the frequency of frames using finer quantizer
in non-RD coding flow, and slightly tune up the quantizer resolution
when used. It provides 1.7% compression gains in speed -5 at no speed
difference.
Change-Id: I430249a51260a841a0402666e5ec1566e4f7d5a6
This commit enables a recursive partition type search for non-RD
mode decisions. It allows the encoder to choose variable block
sizes in a 64x64 block based on rate-distortion modeling.
It improves speed -6 coding efficiency for rtc set by 2.4%. Most
of the gains come from 32-40dB range, where many sequences gain
about 5% to 20%. Local tests suggest there is no speed change.
Change-Id: I06300016e500a21652812b7b3b081db39a783d66
The third pred_mv is stored in x->pred_mv[ref_frame]. This commit make
sure the correct mv is read.
Change-Id: Ibed24daf36703a63f0394c87b2381ee1d2eb7910
In non-rd pick_mode code, added mode skipping according to
thresholds. Used rd thresholds now, but we can modified them
later for real-time case.
RTC set borg test showed a 0.095% PSNR gain. For different rtc
clips, the real-time(speed 7) encoder speedup is 2% - 10%.
Change-Id: Ic72535c96b891092c662453be32d3168f7e34dcc
This is an initial attempt to allow variable block size partition
in non-RD coding flow. It tests 8x8, 16x16 and 32x32 block size per
64x64 block, all using non-RD mode decision and the associated rate
distortion costs from modeling, then selects the best block size to
encode the entire 64x64 block. Such operations are triggered every
other 3 frames. The blocks of intermediate frames will reuse the
collocated block's partition type.
It improves the compression performance by 13.2%. Note that the gains
are not evenly distributed. For many hard clips, the compression
performance is improved by 20% to 28%. Local speed test shows that
it will also increase runtime by 50%, as compared to speed -7. It is
now enabled in speed -6 setting.
Change-Id: Ib4fb8659d21621c9075b3c369ddaa9ecb0a4b204
This commit allows the non-RD mode decision process to return the
rate and distortion costs associated with the selected mode.
Change-Id: Ibe0f67d323f65839fd9cb0a726c1219bf7b55da9
Brings back most of Jim's previous patch for choosing
partitioning based on variance while making it compatible
with the current state of the code. Also adds a
nonrd_use_partition() function to recursively encode for any
arbitrary sb_type decisions within a 64x64 block; and
includes some refactoring.
Currently, when the VAR_BASED_PARTITIONING mode is turned on
for speed 7, there is a 10+% speed-up observed.
Experiments/improvements with this new partitioning method
will be conducted subsequently.
Change-Id: Ie6f43bfbde30583e941f450bf07c3b48828c9571
This commit adjusts the rate-distortion modeling for non-RD mode
decision. It puts more weights on energy from AC coefficients when
estimating the cost. The coding performance for rtc testset is
improved by 0.72%.
Change-Id: Ifa6ff11311a513ec2b10586589e82a9a21f6c61c
Assign interp_kernel value in MACROBLOCKD. This will be used to
select prediction filter coefficient sets and generate motion
compensated prediction.
Change-Id: I28c8dfb2dae6566f6939bb328aca5875c94bee65
Adds a fast diamond search which is about 5% faster than FAST_HEX
with only a 0.1% drop in psnr when turned on for both speeds 5 and 7.
This search is turned on for speed 7.
Change-Id: I497630aa88a5148926086bb3038e7975e5f4eb98
This commit allows the non-RD mode decision to skip mode RD modelling
check, if the motion vector associated with the current mode is
same as that of NEARESTMV mode. This makes speed -7 about 2% faster.
Previous change that converts cost metric from SAD to model based RD
value makes the codec 6% slower at speed -7.
Change-Id: I30cfec5452f606a671b8432a2f7f0c94fbb49fc8
The rate-distortion model in non-RD coding mode is only applied to
luma component. This commit removed a few redundant addition steps.
Change-Id: Id8edc0a47c2dbef8deba43debe2c95db39454de3
This commit replaces SAD cost with modeled rate-distortion cost
for non-RD mode decision. It translates the prediction residual
SSE into estimate rate and reconstruction distorion costs, hence
capturing the quantization setting effect. The compression
performance of speed -7 for rtc set is improved by 14.79%.
Change-Id: Ifda014eb0501d13109fe7f92680bf1410b463632
The core motion estimation fucntions all return sad now consistently.
The only exception is vp9_full_pixel_diamond(), however the core diamond
and refining search routines called from vp9_full_pixel_diamond() also
return SAD. If variance of pred error + mv cost is desired it must be
calculated explicitly outside these functions. For very fast encoding,
hopefully this will eliminate some redundant computations.
Also suggests reimplementing FAST_HEX with the vp9_pattern_search
framework. It is not exactly the same as the existing FAST_HEX, but
performance is slightly better and speed is very similar. Enables
removing a lot of duplicate code.
Change-Id: I152736393438c25bdf7e96b37cbb8ce330f4f94a
Adds a speed 8 to VP9 where only the nearestmv (0 mv) is searched.
This seems to be about the same speed as vp8 speed 5.
Adds a new speed feature to disable inter modes based on a mask for
each blocksize.
Adds code for having lower complexity motion search methods
in nonrd pick mode function, even though speed 7 still uses DIAMOND
search for now.
Also uses HEX search for speed 6 rather than FAST_HEX which improves
psnr by 0.56% without any noticeable speed drop (tested on gipsmotion).
Change-Id: Ic13176572dbd3aed5884a26786940a4b1bbd8a75
