This is work-in-progress, it implements multiple ARF
encoding behind an experimental flag.
It adds the ability to insert multiple ARF frames into a
single ARF group. This patch implements the reordering
of the coded frames, and implements a fixed-length coding
pattern. It applies a fixed quantizer strategy based on
where the frame is in the coding sequence.
Further work to modify the rate control strategy is
ongoing and will be submitted via a set of future patches.
In this first step, each ARF group is recursively
bisected and an ARF frame added at that position in the
sequence. The recursion continues until ARF frames are
within MIN_GF_INTERVAL frames.
The code sits behind the "multiple-arf" experimental
flag ("CONFIG_MULTIPLE_ARF"). The experimental flag
"oneshotq" ("CONFIG_ONESHOTQ") also needs to be enabled
for this patch to work correctly.
Change-Id: Ie473b05ebb43ac473c0cfb659b2b8042823085e2
Use local variable for setting the improved prediction mode.
cpi->sf.improved_mv_pred is set/fixed at the frame level
and should not be changed inside pick_inter_mode.
Change-Id: Ie28d9171ac000e631af0e30204970e3d4fff3078
Pick up VP8 encryption, quantization changes, and some fixes to vpxenc
Conflicts:
test/decode_test_driver.cc
test/decode_test_driver.h
test/encode_test_driver.cc
vp8/vp8cx.mk
vpxdec.c
vpxenc.c
Change-Id: I9fbcc64808ead47e22f1f22501965cc7f0c4791c
and denoising.c
Adding -Wshadow to CFLAGS generated a bunch of warnings. This patch
removes these warnings.
Change-Id: I434a9f4bfac9ad4ab7d2a67a35ef21e6636280da
ratectrl.c and quantize.c
Adding -Wshadow to CFLAGS generated a bunch of warnings. This patch
removes these warnings.
Change-Id: I8c8faa9fde57c1c49662d332a90bc8d9a0f4a2ce
Remove dependency of this function on asm_offsets. ssse3/sse4 next.
Change quant_shift calculation so it be done using SIMD. Pre-calculate
as much as possible to simplify EOB selection.
Take advantage of qcoeff being zero'd by tying the if statements
together.
Speed parity with previous implementation with gcc x86_64 linux
Change-Id: Ife97556a1eca3a74b09def1a3d04084974dff1fb
Reduce dependency on offsets file by using intrinsics. Disassembly shows
improvements over previous assembly specifically in register management,
preloading, and {pro,epi}log. Speed change is within margin of error.
Change-Id: I8131b4b4d62bc092407fe847bfaa8f2c0e1384ff
When error concealment is enabled, it swaps the mi and prev_mi ptrs after
each frame is decoded. The postproc uses the mi ptr for the mode info context.
Now the postproc will use the correct mode info context.
Change-Id: I537ae5450f319c624999b44525bb52bb30047b7b
Reduce the delta loop filter for blocks that are cyclicly refreshed.
This helps to reduce the dot artifacts that may happen
when zero_mv blocks are repeatedly loop-filtered.
This change, along with the fix in:
https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/#/c/40409/
helps to reduce this artifact, but cannot remove the dot artifacts completely.
Change-Id: I44675e7a0f59295b648a3b7d4956fb301231a97f
The MAX_PSNR was used to assign a "psnr" number when the mse is close
to zero. The direct assignment is used to prevent divide by zero in
computation. Changing it from 60 to 100 to be consistent against what
is being done in VP9
Change-Id: I4854ffc4961e59d372ec8005a0d52ca46e3c4c1a
WIP: Fixing unsafe threading in VP8 encoder.
Use the passed in macroblock instead of the macroblock located in
cpi.
Change-Id: I1bfa07de6ea463f2baeaae1bae5d950691bc4afc
The loopfilter thread from the previous frame can be running while
starting the current frame. cpi->Source will change during this time causing
the wrong data to be copied. The refresh_x_frame flags also change, which
will cause incorrect updates of the denoised buffers.
Change-Id: I7d982b4fcb40a0610801332aa85f3b792c64e4c3
The denoiser was writing to LAST_FRAME buffer. If LAST_FRAME isn't being
updated, the reference frame buffers were out of sync between the encoder and the
denoised raw buffers. This patch resolves the discrepancy by always writing to a work
buffer (INTRA_FRAME) and then copying from that buffer to any buffers that needs to
be updated.
Change-Id: I6dd855b9749978b542bc3d515914d5f16faf25df
Multi-threaded code was not updated to disable background
refresh for non base-layer frames at the time it was
disabled in the main C-code.
Change-Id: Id6cc376130b7def046942121cfd0526b4f0a71d4
Don't use the switch to gf_rate_correction factor when
temporal layers is used (i.e., cpi->oxcf.number_of_layers > 1).
In temporal layers, we prefer to avoid this as any frame
(e.g., base layer frame at anchor of pattern) may update
both last and golden (and possibly alt-ref), and so we would get
different rate correction factors within the same layer.
This change will make sure one rate correction factor exists for each layer.
Also, made some other code in qp-regulate that depends on
alt/golden update specific to the 1 layer case.
Change-Id: I41a6d085bd477f9307ef3b3c311695214273892c
Creates a merge between the master and experimental branches. Fixes a
number of conflicts in the build system to allow *either* VP8 or VP9
to be built. Specifically either:
$ configure --disable-vp9 $ configure --disable-vp8
--disable-unit-tests
VP9 still exports its symbols and files as VP8, so that will be
resolved in the next commit.
Unit tests are broken in VP9, but this isn't a new issue. They are
fixed upstream on origin/experimental as of this writing, but rebasing
this merge proved difficult, so will tackle that in a second merge
commit.
Change-Id: I2b7d852c18efd58d1ebc621b8041fe0260442c21
Most of these were picked up by jenkins in the commit that changed
the vp8 namespace to vp9 in common/.
Change-Id: I5cbd56ffc753b92ef805133cda6acc1713a13878
For non-static functions, change the prefix to vp9_. For static functions,
remove the prefix. Also fix some comments, remove unused code or unused
function prototypes.
Change-Id: I1f8be05362f66060fe421c3d4c9a906fdf835de5
Most of these were picked up in the previous commit (prefix change from
vp8_ to vp9_), but I'm pushing this separately so that it's easier to
review.
Change-Id: I91e959895778b8632d7d33375523df8a7568a490
Converted the forward and inverse transforms to integer forms.
Modify #define TEST_INT 1/0
in the code to call integer/float version of transforms.
The tests showed that average OVERALL PSNR loss was less than 0.1%.
Change-Id: I1dfa4eeab6412597e3b970ce299cf0e116a917e6
Preparation for project restructuring.
Added vp9_ prefix on some function names that have global scope.
Added static declaration on some that dont.
Change-Id: If072f78b4300e8c17cfeed82c5d17b59946dcc5e
Previously, in evaluating reference motion vectors, MVs are always
rounded to integer pixel position and SADs are calculated. This
commit takes into account the subpixel portion of the mvs, and uses
bilinear interpolation to produce reference pixel values in subpixel
postions. In addition, SSE is used in place of SAD. Pixels used are
16x2 above and 2x16 to the left.
This commmit intends to test the potential of this line of work in
term of compression improvement, obviously, the change would increase
decoder complexity significantly.
Test results
std-hd: 1.738%(avg) 1.779%(glb), 1.663%(ssim)
derf: 0.472%(avg) 0.477%(glb), 0.418%(ssim)
Change-Id: I3ae1b098f6289df78891134d9a5e4bb2fde87a0b
Cleaned up some inconsistent references using both xd-> and
x->e_mbd. to access the same data structure in the same function.
Change-Id: Ieb496fa22bf1feec6aa7bc70b941ea4f16e0f8b5
Coding and costing of mv reference signal.
Issues in updating MV ref with COMPANDED_MVREF_THRESH
to be resolved. Ideally the MV precision should be defined based
on absolute MV magnitude not as now the MV ref magnitude.
Update to mv counts moved into bitstream.c because otherwise
if the motion reference is changed at the last minute the encoder
and decoder get out of step in terms of the counts used to update
entropy probs.
Code working on a few test clips but no results yet re benefit vs
signaling cost and no tuning of red loop to test lower cost alternatives
based on the available reference values.
Patch 3. Added check to make sure we don't pick a reference
that would give rise to an uncodeable / out of range residual.
Patch 6-7: Attempt to rebase. OK to submit but best to leave flag off for now.
Patch 9. Remove print no longer needed.
Change-Id: I1938c2ffe41afe6d3cf6ccc0cb2c5d404809a712
Refactor per-transform copy & paste into a common function
update_coef_probs_common() and read_coef_probs_common(). The dry-run and
bit-writing loops in the encoder are still obvious candidates to be made
common, but they start to diverge a bit in the next commit, so are left
as-is for now.
Change-Id: I896bd3f4a073a6296eab7e92463fef79d8c6c08c
There is a macro DEFAULT_INTERP_FILTER defined in encoder/onyx_if.c that
is set as EIGHTTAP for now - so SWITCHABLE is not really used. Ideally,
this should be SWITCHABLE but that would make the encoder quite a bit slower.
We will change the default filter to SWITCHABLE once we find a faster way to
search for switchable filters.
Change-Id: Iee91832cdc07e6e14108d9b543130fdd12fc9874
* changes:
Fix another typo in 4x4-transform-for-i8x8-intra-pred coeff contexts.
8x8 transform support in splitmv.
Use SPLITMV_PARTITIONING instead of a plain integer type.
For splitmv, where partitioning is 8x16, 16x8 or 8x8, this patch
uses the 8x8 transform (instead of the 4x4) if txfm_mode is
ALLOW_8X8 or ALLOW_16X16. For TX_MODE_SELECT, splitmv can indicate
which of the 2 transform sizes (4x4 or 8x8) it wants to use.
Gains (with hybridtx4x4/8x8/16x16 and tx_select experiments
enabled) on derf: +0.9%, HD: +0.4%, STD/HD: +0.8% (SSIM or overall
PSNR, both metrics show similar improvements).
Change-Id: Ide954b000b415548ed92a7ac78e24f36e60fcf06
This can be used to distinguish between 16x8, 8x16, 8x8 and 4x4
partitioning modes when choosing splitmv as a MB mode.
Change-Id: Idc8b59772e1a80ccc4ad44d63c5c2ec3fc061a3c
It currently counts the probability that the branch is true, but it
should count the probability that the branch is false.
Change-Id: I963825da2e7a7ed3a613eb23ffd085e427dc36e5
Allows B_VL_PRED & B_LD_PRED modes to be used for all blocks
within a MB in B_PRED mode. These modes were temporarily
disabled with super-block coding.
Change-Id: I973b9bdb82c3da5f12d7cc963162a28805f25303
There were several different methods for calculating bitstream
probabilities in use. Consolodate these into a pair of functions,
get_prob() and get_binary_prob().
Change-Id: I5534f517f74027fee16d89c9baefaafea8156b2f
Pass the bool coder to be used explicitly. This avoids cases where two
different bool coders can be addressed from the same function. Also be
more consistent with bool coder variable naming, start to standardize
on 'bc'.
Change-Id: I1c95e2fdbe24ebe8c0f84924daa1728e3b054a31
Separates the logic on transform type selection previously spread out
over a number of files into a separate function. Currently the tx_type
field in b_mode_info is not used, but still left in there to eventually
use for signaling the transform type in the bitstream.
Also, now for tx_type = DCT_DCT, the regular integer DCT is used, as
opposed to the floating point DCT used in conjuction with hybrid
transform.
Results change somewhat due to the transform change, but are within
reasonable limits. The hd/std-hd sets are slightly up, while derf/yt
are slightly down.
Change-Id: I5776840c2239ca2da31ca6cfd7fd1148dc5f9e0f
This commit moves a bit of data that ended up packed with the
modes/mv/residual partition during the change to interleaved encoding
into partition 0 where it belongs.
Change-Id: Ic711a378c58d9d6a17254384f492c213a15bad92
Packs the bitstream with each mb's residual following its mode/mv
information.
TODO: There are still a few fields that should be packed into partition
0 but are included in partition 1, due to them being serialized from
write_kfmodes/pack_inter_mode_mvs, which execute after the first
partition is finalized. These need to be separated out into a separate
function, similar to mb_mode_mv_init() in decodemv.c.
Change-Id: I43a46c363601ab36954d07ebe498760e1e2e3af4
It is essentially a duplicate of mode for RD-only purposes. Removing it
saves us 4 bytes per B_MODE_INFO, or ~0.5MB for a 1080p video encode.
Change-Id: I0a54db5f51658b3946d7efb1ca6e8cfbda0cdf88
The variable is essentially a duplicate of mode for RD-only purposes.
Removing it gives identical results, and saves 4 bytes per macroblock
(i.e. 32.5kB for a 1080p HD video encode).
Change-Id: I22d5058fdb80ab0b69862caee825e9d86bb148b3
This way a caller doesn't need to implement the logic for which (and how
many) tokens to write out to stuff one macroblock worth of EOBs. Make
the actual function implementations static, since they are now only used
in tokenize.c; also do some minor stylistic changes so it follows the
style guide a little more closely; use PLANE_TYPE where appropriate,
remove old (stale) frame_type function arguments; hardcode plane type
where only a single one is possible (2nd order DC or U/V EOB stuffing);
support stuffing 8x8/4x4 transform EOBs with no 2nd order DC.
Change-Id: Ia448e251d19a4e3182eddeb9edd034bd7dc16fa3
Change the macros PLANE_TYPE_{Y_NO_DC,Y2,UV,Y_WITH_DC} to a typed enum,
and use this typed enum consistently across all places where relevant.
In places where the type is implied (e.g. in functions that only handle
second order planes or chroma planes), remove it as a function argument
and instead hardcode the proper enum in the code directly.
Change-Id: I93652b4a36aa43163d49c732b0bf5c4442738c47
Also merge the three occurrences of 4x4 chroma block writing into a
single function, and call that function instead of duplicating the
4x4 chroma tokenization code in 3 places.
Change-Id: I7913538d1029f709b0e3ae49fff1148d3be9eeb9
Merge code blocks for different transform sizes; use MACROBLOCKD as a
temp variable where that leads to smaller overall source code; remove
duplicate code under #if CONFIG_HYBRIDTRANSFORM/#else blocks. Some style
changes to make it follow the style guide a little better.
Change-Id: I1870a06dae298243db46e14c6729c96c66196525
Also make some minor stylistic changes to bring the code closer to
the style guide. Remove distinction between inter and intra transform
functions, since both do exactly the same thing except for the check
against SPLITMV for the second-order transform. Remove some commented
out debug code. Remove 8x8/16x16 transform code in encode_inter16x16y(),
since the first-pass only uses 4x4 anyway.
Change-Id: Ife54816ff759825b9141f95dc2ba43c253c14dba
Also make some minor stylistic changes to bring the code closer to
the style guide. Remove checks against i8x8/bpred in the mb-codepath,
since these do individual block reconstruction and thus don't go through
this codepath.
Change-Id: I4dfcf8f78746f4647a206475acf731837aa4fd47
This includes trellis optimization, forward/inverse transform,
quantization, tokenization and stuffing functions.
Change-Id: Ibd34132e1bf0cd667671a57b3f25b3d361b9bf8a
Entropy coding takes care of this anyway, and this causes changes to
the txfm size assigned to skip blocks, which can affect the loopfilter
output, thus causing encoder/decoding mismatches.
Change-Id: I591a8d8a4758a507986b751a9f83e6d76e406998
The update_mb_segmentation_map flag was being signalled earlier than
other data dependent on that flag. Consolidate this data so it's
parsed within the same if-scope as the flag is originally parsed in.
Change-Id: I10e90b4f511856445ef75a85a44ff441e1e5e672
If the threshold(limits) <= 0, skipped filtering and copied the
frame directly. Also, fixed memory allocation checking.
Change-Id: If3d79d5b2bcb71b9777e6eb5cba1384585131e22
Use the common update_skip_probs() function rather than duplicating its
logic in write_kf_modes().
Change-Id: I2890a28f6907cb79ffe0fb21d20f0ef98b85cdd9
If a reference frame is forced because of low dissimilarity, then
shut off the search of intra modes. This change has mixed results. On
one clip (QVGA), it hurt quality by ~1.5% with negligible speed impact.
On another (VGA) it had negligible affect on quality, but a ~0.2% speed
impact.
Change-Id: Ic8b07648979d732f489de5f094957e140f84d2eb
Rather than overloading the parent_ref_frame value to shut off the
search in some cases, add a new validity flag. This cleans up some
of the duplicated mr_encoder_id && mr_low_res_mv_avail checks as
well, for readability.
Change-Id: Iddad93a27066c3d85ff2f25a361ac113b288ab7b
Results: derf (vanilla or +hybridtx) +0.2% and (+hybrid16x16
or +tx16x16) +0.7%-0.8%; HD (vanilla or +hybridtx) +0.1-0.2%
and (+hybrid16x16 or +tx16x16) +1.4%, STD/HD (vanilla or +hybridtx)
about even, and (+hybrid16x16 or +tx16x16) +0.8-1.0%.
Change-Id: I03899e2f7a64e725a863f32e55366035ba77aa62
1. Algorithm modification:
Instead of having same filter threshold for a whole frame, now we
allow the thresholds to be adjusted for each macroblock. In current
implementation, to avoid excessive blur on background as reported
in issue480(http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=480), we
reduce the thresholds for skipped macroblocks.
2. SSE2 optimization:
As started in issue479(http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=479),
the filter calculation was adjusted for better performance. The c
code was also modified accordingly. This made the deblock filter
2x faster, and the decoder was 1.2x faster overall.
Next, the demacroblock filter will be modified similarly.
Change-Id: I05e54c3f580ccd427487d085096b3174f2ab7e86
In some situations, believed to be an interaction between temporal
scalability and dropped frames, the references available to an
encoder may not be the same references available to its parent.
Previously, the code tried to force the reference frame chosen by
the parent to be used on this frame, even if it was disabled. This
was preventing the pick mode loop from running even once, which led
to a crash.
Attempts to reproduce this bug locally were unsuccessful, so it is
still undetermined what the underlying cause of this issue is. In
the specific case that was failing, the application did not set
any flags which influenced the reference selection on that frame.
ref_frame_flags indicated that the golden frame was disabled,
believed to be because the last frame updated the last and golden
frames, so golden was shut off by default. It's not clear why this
wouldn't have also been true in the lower res encoder, ie, why the
lower res encoder decided to use and/or was allowed to use the
golden frame. We weren't able to debug into the non-crashing
lower res encoder as the crash couldn't be reproduced locally.
Change-Id: Ifb265253d26963ac2afde0e20cf6792788be6af7
This commit fixes unsafe simd / floating point interactions arising
from the current hybrid and 16x16 transform implementation.
These led to a raft of bugs and issues when the project was
built using VS2008 for Win32 though they did not show up with
the unix builds.
Gerrit makes a meal out of presenting the fix but all I have actually
done is indent the body of each function that uses floating point by
one level and bracket with emms instructions using the function
vp8_clear_system_state(). See below.
function () {
vp8_clear_system_state();
{
... function body
}
vp8_clear_system_state();
}
This is almost certainly over the top in terms of number of emms
instructions but is a temporary measure pending implementation of
integer variants of each function to replace the floating point.
Limited testing suggests that this fixes the problems that arose for
Win32 VS2008 when the hybrid or 16x16 transforms were enabled.
Change-Id: I7c9a72bd79315246ed880578dec51e2b7c178442
If a parent mb is available but is intra coded, then parent_ref_mv is
invalid. Check that the parent is inter coded before trying to access
the parent_ref_mv. Previously the parent_ref_mv was being read from
an uninitialized stack allocation, causing potential OOB reads and
other undefined behavior.
Change-Id: I0c93cd412a19c3a184bcf6decaa145b3a036a6c0
The codec as it stood placed a keyframe one frame after a
real cut scene - and ignored datarate and other considerations.
TODO: Its possible that we should detect a keyframe and recode
the frame ( in certain circumstances) to improve quality.
Change-Id: Ia1fd6d90103f4da4d21ca5ab62897d22e0b888a8
Reset the cyclie refresh mode index in alloc_compressor_data().
This is needed to handle both cases of internal and
external spatial resizing.
Change-Id: I2697e12d45135eae2e8f0d45161811f24722312a
Separates the entropy coding context models for 4x4, 8x8 and 16x16
ADST variants.
There is a small improvement for HD (hd/std-hd) by about 0.1-0.2%.
Results on derf/yt are about the same, probably because there is not
enough statistics.
Results may improve somewhat once the initial probability tables are
updated for the hybrid transforms which is coming soon.
Change-Id: Ic7c0c62dacc68ef551054fdb575be8b8507d32a8
On an internal spatial resize, this mode index was not reset to 0,
and therefore could exceed dimensions of seg_map or cyclic_refresh_map.
Change-Id: I6fe85dbd2765eb0207a9d9f71fda8d8b8c34f075
This should avoid problems with blocks gettings high quality
improvement despite having recently moved:
Change-Id: Ic0af0de2d6577807fa3c553f47b55d547ef36359
Set the seg map to 0 for key frame.
In previous commit on cyclic refresh, the seg map for key frame
was not reset, and instead used the seg map from last frame.
Change-Id: I848eb2face420dfcd2f7daca6f070b9127ca938b
-Increase the amount of mbs to be refreshed.
-Replace the delta qp with a fixed and reduced delta.
-Change to the mb update loop to try to always update same amount of mbs.
Change-Id: I93ac88002fd8dc677d2337f77998ff93f64e4ff9
With this change, even if hybridtransform8x8 experiment is off,
8x8 dct is used for the I8x8 mode. However note that the gains
observed with the hybridtransform8x8 experiment will now be less,
since part of the gain is now merged in.
Change-Id: I9afb3880906fd0a1368a374041fc08efcf060c54
The commit changed to use 3 rows above and 3 cols from left for SAD
scoring for selecting the best reference motion vector. The change
helped std-hd set by >.2% on psnr/ssim metrics.
Change-Id: Ifad3b528d0b4b6e3c22518af789d76eff23c1520
The high-precision (1/8) pel bit is turned off if the reference
MV is larger than a threshold. The motivation for this patch is
the intuition that if motion is likely large (as indicated by
the reference), there is likley to be more motion blur, and as
a result 1/8 pel precision would be wasteful both in rd sense
as well as computationally.
The feature is incorporated as part of the newmventropy experiment.
There is a modest RD improvement with the patch. Overall the
results with the newmventropy experiment with the threshold being
16 integer pels are:
derf: +0.279%
std-hd: +0.617%
hd: +1.299%
yt: +0.822%
With threshold 8 integer pels are:
derf: +0.295%
std-hd: +0.623%
hd: +1.365%
yt: +0.847%
Patch: rebased
Patch: rebase fixes
Change-Id: I4ed14600df3c457944e6541ed407cb6e91fe428b
Some cleanups that will make it easier to maintain the code
and incorporate upcoming changes on entropy coding for the
hybrid transforms.
Change-Id: I44bdba368f7b8bf203161d7a6d3b1fc2c9e21a8f
This commit merges those parts of the CONFIG_NEW_MVREF
that specifically relate to choosing a better set of candidate
MV references into the NEWBESTREFMV experiment.
CONFIG_NEW_MVREF will then be used for changes relating
to the explicit coding of a cost optimized MV reference in the
bitstream as part of MV coding.
Change-Id: Ied982c0ad72093eab29e38b8cd74d5c3d7458b10
Extend experiment to use both vectors from MBs
coded using compound prediction as candidates.
In final sort only consider best 4 candidates
for now but make sure 0,0 is always one of them.
Other minor changes to new MV reference code.
Pass in Mv list to vp8_find_best_ref_mvs().
Change-Id: Ib96220c33c6b80bd1d5e0fbe8b68121be7997095
Adds a new experiment with redesigned/refactored motion vector entropy
coding. The patch also takes a first step towards separating the
integer and fractional pel components of a MV. However the fractional
pel encoding still depends on the integer pel part and so they are
not fully independent. Further experiments are in progress to see
how much they can be decoupled without affecting performance.
All components including entropy coding/decoding, costing for MV
search, forward updates and backward updates to probability tables,
have been implemented.
Results so far:
derf: +0.19%
std-hd: +0.28%
yt: +0.80%
hd: +1.15%
Patch: Simplifies the fractional pel models:
derf: +0.284%
std-hd: +0.289%
yt: +0.849%
hd: +1.254%
Patch: Some changes in the models, rebased.
derf: +0.330%
std-hd: +0.306%
yt: +0.816%
hd: +1.225%
Change-Id: I646b3c48f3587f4cc909639b78c3798da6402678
The denoiser function was modified to reduce the computational
complexity.
1. The denoiser c function modification:
The original implementation calculated pixel's filter_coefficient
based on the pixel value difference between current raw frame and last
denoised raw frame, and stored them in lookup tables. For each pixel c,
find its coefficient using
filter_coefficient[c] = LUT[abs_diff[c]];
and then apply filtering operation for the pixel.
The denoising filter costed about 12% of encoding time when it was
turned on, and half of the time was spent on finding coefficients in
lookup tables. In order to simplify the process, a short cut was taken.
The pixel adjustments vs. pixel diff value were calculated ahead of time.
adjustment = filtered_value - current_raw
= (filter_coefficient * diff + 128) >> 8
The adjustment vs. diff curve becomes flat very quick when diff increases.
This allowed us to use only several levels to get a close approximation
of the curve. Following the denoiser algorithm, the adjustments are
further modified according to how big the motion magnitude is.
2. The sse2 function was rewritten.
This change made denoiser filter function 3x faster, and improved the
encoder performance by 7% ~ 10% with the denoiser on.
Change-Id: I93a4308963b8e80c7307f96ffa8b8c667425bf50
Enable ADST/DCT of dimension 16x16 for I16X16 modes. This change provides
benefits mostly for hd sequences.
Set up the framework for selectable transform dimension.
Also allowing quantization parameter threshold to control the use
of hybrid transform (This is currently disabled by setting threshold
always above the quantization parameter. Adaptive thresholding can
be built upon this, which will further improve the coding performance.)
The coding performance gains (with respect to the codec that has all
other configuration settings turned on) are
derf: 0.013
yt: 0.086
hd: 0.198
std-hd: 0.501
Change-Id: Ibb4263a61fc74e0b3c345f54d73e8c73552bf926
Alternative strategy for finding a list of candidate motion
vectors to use as reference values in mv coding and as
nearest and near.
Sort by sad in vp8_find_best_ref_mvs() rather than just
pick the best. Allow 0,0 as a best ref option but not a
nearest or near unless there are no alternatives.
Encode/Decode verified on at least some clips.
Some commented out experimental and stats code still in place.
Gain over existing code averages about 1% on derf (alll metrics)
with improvement on all clips. Other test results pending.
The entropy coding of the mode (nearest/near etc) still
depends upon and requires the old "findnear" code so
this needs looking at and may provide room for further gains.
Change-Id: I871d7cba1d1c379c4bad9bcccce1fb19c46b8247
