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
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
The new test will run a SVC bitstream which has non ref frames.
It checks the number of buffer acquired and released to make sure all
external frame buffers are released.
Add a new test bitstream:
vp90-2-22-svc_1280x720_1.webm
which has 400 frames in total, and 1 spatial layer and 2 temporal layers.
There is one non ref frame every other frame.
Disabled for now. Will be enabled with the fix.
BUG=b/68819248
Change-Id: I0515336fd9809a9e1fceba90e4dce53dabaf53a5
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
Even though frame_size is calculated in uint64_t, it winds up in an int
size value.
This was exposed with the msan test because the memset is called with
(int)frame_size, leading to a segfault.
Change-Id: I7fd930360dca274adb8f3e43e5e6785204808861
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
swap '{' and c-style comments removing a few redundant ones along the
way; covers most leftovers from the clang-tidy run against an
x86_64-linux config.
Change-Id: I67a45596f80a12389faca49c5be440875092a7df
Changed the intrinsics to perform summation similiar to the way the assembly does.
The new code diverges from the assembly by preferring unsaturated additions.
Results for haswell
SSSE3
Horiz/Vert Size Speedup
Horiz x4 ~32%
Horiz x8 ~6%
Vert x8 ~4%
AVX2
Horiz/Vert Size Speedup
Horiz x16 ~16%
Vert x16 ~14%
BUG=webm:1471
Change-Id: I7ad98ea688c904b1ba324adf8eb977873c8b8668
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
Disable cyclic refresh if ROI is used and add flag to properly handle
the static_thresh deltas.
Remove the ROI test for cyclic refresh (it's allowed but disabled if ROI
is used).
Add an example in vpx_temporal_svc_encoder.c. Turned off by default.
BUG=webm:1470
Change-Id: Ief9ba1d7f967bc00511b412b491c3f70943bfbda
