For the case when the number of temporal layers > 1,
the buffer levels (starting/optimal_buffer_level,
and maximum_buffer_size) were not scaled properly.
In vp9_update_layer_context_change_config():
when setting the layer-buffer levels, fix is to scale
the layer-target_bandwidth by the target_bandwidth
(which is the full stream bandwidth) instead of the
spatial_layer_target.
This is needed because prior to the call
vp9_update_layer_context_change_config(), set_rc_buffer_sizes()
is called which sets the buffer levels based on target bandwidth
(which is the full bandwidth for the SVC stream).
This fix properly sets the layer-buffer levels based on the
layer-bandwidth, and leads to better rate targeting.
Small/neutral change in avgPSNR/SSIM metrics on RTC set.
Change-Id: Ic0f4f7f3487c37b9a9adb4781ae5edfed7140a57
Control Flow Integrity [1] indirect call checking verifies that function
pointers only call valid functions with a matching type signature. This
change eliminates function pointer casts to make libvpx CFI-safe.
[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/control-flow-integrity
Change-Id: I7e08522d195a43c88cda06fa20414426c8c4372c
For reference frames: enable scale partition for
superblocks with low source sad or if bsize on lower-resoln
is at least 32x32.
Keep feature disabled for base temporal layer.
Small regression in avgPNSR/SSIM metrics, ~0.5-1%.
Speedup ~2-3% on mac for SVC (3 spatial/3 temporal layers) at speed 7.
Change-Id: I5987eb7763845b680059128b538bb5188be0cca5
When allow_partition_search_skip is set the two pass code
can optionally skip the partition search in the rd loop if the image
appears static (based on selection of 0,0 motion).
Unfortunately 0,0 motion does not necessarily mean that there are
no meaningful changes or that motion or intra modes will not be selected
in the second pass.
Disabling "allow_partition_search_skip" may hurt the encode speed a little
for a small number of clips but can have a big impact on compression.
The most notable example of this in our test sets is "bridge_close_cif"
where this change gives a gains of 18%, 12% and 16% in opsnr, ssim and
psnr-hvs.
Change-Id: I765e288b5c0cd82bce00a148e7653a21e9203024
Enable partition copy on boundary and scale blocks along the boundary.
Rename copy_partition_svc to scale_partition_svc.
Do not copy if the block crosses the boundary.
Change-Id: I37a04d48f11b15c4ea67facd7631193ec2f62150
Removal of parameters to and code in calc_frame_boost() that is no
longer required.
No change to results from previous patch.
Change-Id: Ic92da35613fdc247d22fddf24d09679fc5329017
The decay accumulator clause covers similar ground to the
new clause that tests the accumulated second reference error
so it has been removed to reduce complexity.
Change-Id: I4ec1cce32d72bd4ee463ad7def2831a68447d525
Add a clause to the breakout test for alt ref groups that
examines the size of the accumulated second reference
frame error compared to the cost of intra coding.
This clause causes a reduction in the average group length for many
clips. Alongside the change to the group length the minimum
boost is increased.
On balance the results are positive for psnr and psnr-hvs
but is negative for ssim/fast ssim for the smaller image formats.
Strong gains on some harder clips (eg ducks take off (midres) ~20%,
husky (lowres) 6-17%. Most of the negative cases are lower motion
clips. Subsequent patch hopefully will help with those.
Change-Id: Ic1f5dbb9153d5089e58b1540470e799f91a65dc4
Fix/cleaup the conditioning for usage of the reuse-lowres
partition feature.
Replace the non-reference condition with the top temporal
layer, and put this condition in the speed feature.
This prevents doing update_partition_svc() on every
VGA frame, instead it will now only do update for VGA in
the top temporal layer frames.
Also this makes it easier to test/enable this feature
for lower layer temporal frames.
Change-Id: Ia897afbc6fe5c84c5693e310bcaa6a87ce017be5
For new VP9 only content type adjust the rate distortion and ARF
filter based on the relative spatial variance of the source and
reconstruction.
In regards to the RD loop the method favors modes where the
reconstruction variance is similar to the source variance. However it
is currently only applied to regions where the source variance is quite
low.
For very low variance blocks it applies a further bias against intra
coding and large prediction block sizes (the later in particular limit
the usefulness of the loop filter).
The final part of this change is to lower the strength of the ARF
filter for blocks where the source has very low spatial variance, to
encourage some low amplitude texture or noise to pass through
the filter.
This change improves the retention of film grain and fine noise /
texture in spatially flat regions, but as expected causes a significant
drop in PSNR on many clips. This is to be expected because similar
but misaligned noise or texture will give a lower PSNR than a flat
noise free reconstruction. However, it is worth noting that most clips
show a strong gain in FAST SSIM.
The features are enabled on the vpxenc command line by setting
--tune-content=film.
VPX_ENCODER_ABI_VERSION bumped for this change and cvbr.
Change-Id: I26a4e4edfa3dc5cacead82fa701fe7a9118ccd0a
Removed three parameters that are no longer needed in calls
to calc_arf_boost() and associated minor changes.
No impact on encode results.
Change-Id: Ieaf31d0d2e1990b99cf69647170145a1bbfbb9fb
For choose_partitioning (speed >= 6): avoid computation
of minmax variance for non-reference frames in SVC.
Existing condition only avoided this for speed >= 8.
Combine that existing logic with non-reference condition.
Small speedup (~0.5-1%) for 3 layer SVC,
neutral change on avgPSNR/SSIM metrics.
Change-Id: I3e9f3a1af0647b15e475cf170d9402908d672ee5
Release frame buffers for non-ref when the decoder is destroyed.
Enable the non ref test.
BUG=b/68819248
Change-Id: Id87ef3b0a62318f9812e927cd957c05c859047fa
For SVC with 3 spatial layers:
Add feature to copy/upscale partition from middle spatial layer
to the upper/highest resolution, when superblock sad is not high.
Enabled for speed >= 7 and only for non-reference frames.
Speedup ~3-4%, small loss in avgPNSR/SSIM of ~1%.
Change-Id: I7f0a2716c0fde28bade0f86159d11b7e31d6ab8d
For a chosen interval "i" the existing arf boost calculation examined frames
+/- (i-1) frames from the current location in the second pass.
This change checks to make sure that the forward search does not extend
beyond the next key frame in the event that the distance to the next key
frame is < (i - 1).
Small metrics gains on all our test sets but these are localized to a few clips
(e.g. midres set psnr-hvs sintel -2.59% but overall average was only -0.185%)
Change-Id: I26fc9ce582b6d58fa1113a238395e12ad3123cf6
Added command line control of Corpus VBR.
The new corpus vbr mode is a variant of standard
VBR (end-usage=0) where the complexity distribution
mid point is passed in rather than calculated for a specific
clip or chunk.
The new variant is enabled by setting a new command line
parameter --corpus-complexity to a zero value. Omitting
this parameter or setting it to 0 will cause the codec to use
standard vbr mode.
The correct value for a given corpus needs to be derived
experimentally using a training set such that the average
rate for the corpus is close to the target value.
For example our using our low res test set with upper and lower
vbr limits of 50%-150% and a corpus complexity value of 650
gives a similar average data rate across the set to using standard
vbr. However, with the corpus mode easier clips will be allocated
fewer bits and harder clips more bits rather than having the same
rate target for all.
Change-Id: I03f0fc8c6fb0ee32dc03720fea6a3f1949118589
For nonrd_pickmode: if early_term is set there should be
no need to include UV in rdcost (when color_sensitivity is set).
Neutral change on RTC and RTC_derf metrics, for speed >= 5.
No change for ytlive metrics.
Very small speed gain (~0.5%) on some clips with strong color content.
Change-Id: Ifc00928ecd935fc71e94935ceef0ae7481249f07
Allow for compound prediction mode in nonrd_pickmode for ZEROMV.
For real-time encoding, 1 pass with non-zero lag-in-frames.
Added speed feature to control the feature.
Enabled for speed >=6 for now, under VBR mode.
avgPSNR/SSIM metrics positive on ytlive set, for speed 6:
some clips up by ~3-5%, some clips neutral gain, average gain
across clips is ~1%.
Small/negligible decrease in speed.
Change-Id: I7a60c7596e69b9a928410c5ee2f9141eecd8613d
Change type of sum_square_error from int64_t to uint32_t.
Change type of sum_error from int64_t to int32_t.
This reduces the stack usage from ~131K to ~87K.
BUG=b/68362457
Change-Id: I147d7c7b226bceb4f0817bb86848e1fa9d9ac149
Set adaptive_row_thresh_mt = 1 at speed >= 7,
for svc when multi-threading is used with row-mt.
This allow the adaptive_rd_thresh feature to be used
in the nonrd-pickmode.
~1-2% speedup for SVC encoding with small quality
loss (< 0.6%) on RTC set.
Change-Id: Iab9878dff117bccdaef3e4d0645165db9808cdfc
Note this change will trigger the different C version on SSSE3 and
generate different scaled output.
Its speed is 2x compared with the version calling vpx_scaled_2d_ssse3().
Change-Id: I17fff122cd0a5ac8aa451d84daa606582da8e194
Small inncrease the sad_thresh1, avoids some false
detection of possible scene changes within lag.
Small improvement in few clips on ytlive, otherwise neutral change.
Change-Id: Ia79b53bb657bbce65a7aac7d20666b6373d5af8b
Expose the threshold for setting key frame on cut,
and increase it for speed 5.
Also small adjustment to min_thresh.
No change in overall metrics or fps.
Small quality improvement and lower encode time on scene cuts.
Change-Id: I36e06ff3b26b6c29aede39c23fce454525fc9026
