The low precision 32x32 fdct has all the intermediate steps within
16-bit depth, hence allowing faster SSE2 implementation, at the
expense of larger round-trip error. It was used in the rate-distortion
optimization search loop only.
Using the low precision version, in replace of the high precision one,
affects the compression performance by about 0.7% (derf, stdhd) at
speed 0. For speed 1, it makes derf set down by only 0.017%.
Change-Id: I4e7d18fac5bea5317b91c8e7dabae143bc6b5c8b
Adds a speed feature to skip all intra modes other than
DC_PRED if the source variance is small. This feature is
made part of speed 1 and up.
Results on derf300: psnr -0.07%, speedup about 1-2%
Also uses the source variance to fine-tune the early
termination criteria when FLAG_EARLY_TERMINATE is on.
This feature is made part of speed 2 and up.
Results on derf300: psnr -0.52%, speedup about 5-7%
Change-Id: I59e38aa836557cfa5405ae706fc64815cbfe4232
This allows us to increment the position at the band-level only as
we go from one band to the next; more importantly, that allows us to
use an add instead of multiply instruction, and omit the instruction
altogether if the band doesn't change from one coef to the next, thus
being slightly faster (probably more noticeable on systems where a
multiply is expensive, like arm).
Change-Id: I4343fe35b9f9a47fa00b217bdcbf5f91ff96c381
This patch modifies the auto_mv_step_size speed feature to
use a combination of the maximum magnitude mv from the last
inter frame, and the maximum magnitude mv for the two reference
mvs with the same reference. For arf frames, the max mav step
for the resolution is used.
The bounds therefore are slightly tighter. The feature is made
a speed 1 feature.
Rebased.
Results (when this feature is turned on over speed 0):
derfraw300: -0.046% psnr, about 5+% speedup
(tested on football: goes from 4m30.760s to 4m17.410s).
Change-Id: If492797a61b0b4b3e58c0b8f86afb880165fc9f6
Current partition checking starts from small sizes, and then goes up
to large sizes. This experiment uses the small partitions' motion
estimation result, which is already available, to speed up the
large partition's motion estimation. We can decide to skip some
patition checkings if they are unlikely choices. We could use the
motion vector(MV) result as current partition's prediction MV, limit
the search range and reference frame.
Current result at speed 1:
psnr loss: 1.19% for stdhd, 0.287% for derf.
speed gain: 14% for sunflower(hd), 11% for akiyo.
Further improvement will be done later.
Change-Id: I5abfd070e9cace2e91e2a0247d1325df313887ab
This speed feature allows the encoder to largely remove the spatial
dependency between blocks inside a 64x64 superblock, thereby removing
the need to repeatedly encode superblocks per partition type in the
rate-distortion optimization loop.
A major challenge lies in the intra modes tested in the rate-distortion
optimization loop. The subsequent blocks do not have access to the
reconstructed boundary pixels without the intermediate coding steps.
This was resolved by using the original pixels for intra prediction
in the rd loop, followed by an appropriately designed distortion
modeling on the quantization parameters. Experiments also suggested
that the performance impact is more discernible at lower bit-rate/psnr
settings. Hence a quantizer dependent threshold is applied to deactivate
skip of block coding.
For bus_cif at 2000 kbps,
speed 0: runtime 269854ms -> 237774ms (12% speed-up) at 0.05dB
performance loss.
speed 1: runtime 65312ms -> 61536ms, (7% speed-up) at 0.04dB
performance loss.
This operation is currently turned on in settings of speed 1.
Change-Id: Ib689741dfff8dd38365d8c1b92860a3e176f56ec
Changes cost_mv_ref() into doing a LUT into pre-calculated cost
arrays instead. Encode time of first 50 frames of bus (speed 0)
@ 1500kbps goes from 2min11.6 to 2min10.9, i.e. 0.5% faster overall.
Change-Id: If186e92c34c201b29cbbc058785a15c9c09e433a
Overall, on all test sets, this gains about +0.2% on all metrics.
City is a clip where this really hurts (-1.0% on all metrics), I'm
not quite sure why yet. Maybe interesting to look into in the future.
Change-Id: I6f0eecb20e72f0194633270d30bf00d76d9eae78
Total encoding time for first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps
goes 2min34.8 to 2min14.4, i.e. a 10.4% overall speedup. The code is
x86-64 only, it needs some minor modifications to be 32bit compatible,
because it uses 15 xmm registers, whereas 32bit only has 8.
Change-Id: I2df53770c2e850813ffa713e1a91b45b0082b904
Cycle timings for first 3 frames of bus (speed 0) at 1500kbps:
4x4: 298 -> 234 cycles
8x8: 1227 -> 878 cycles
16x16: 23426 -> 18134 cycles
32x32: 4906 -> 3664 cycles
Total encode time of first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps (speed 0) goes
from 3min0.7 to 2min51.6 seconds, i.e. 5.3% faster.
Change-Id: I68a0e1b530b0563b84a67342cca4b45146077e95
This commit replaces zrun_zbin_boost, a method of biasing non-zero
coefficients following runs of zero-coefficients to be rounded towards
zero, with an explicit skip-block choice in the RD loop.
The logic is basically that if individual coefficients should be rounded
towards zero (from a RD point of view), the trellis/optimize loop should
take care of it. If whole blocks should be zero (from a RD point of
view), a single RD check is much more efficient than a complete
serialization of the quantization loop.
Quality change: derf +0.5% psnr, +1.6% ssim; yt +0.6% psnr, +1.1% ssim.
SIMD for quantize will follow in a separate patch. Results for other
test sets pending.
Change-Id: Ife5fa641163ac5150ac428011e87188f1937c1f4
This commit makes use of dual fdct32x32 versions for rate-distortion
optimization loop and encoding process, respectively. The one for
rd loop requires only 16 bits precision for intermediate steps.
The original fdct32x32 that allows higher intermediate precision (18
bits) was retained for the encoding process only.
This allows speed-up for fdct32x32 in the rd loop. No performance
loss observed.
Change-Id: I3237770e39a8f87ed17ae5513c87228533397cc3
Migrates costing changes/fixes from the rebalance expt to the head
without the expt on.
Rebased.
Change-Id: I51677d62f77ed08aca8d21a4c9a13103eb8de93f
Results:
derfraw300: +0.126%
This patch changes the coefficient tree to move the EOB to below
the ZERO node in order to save number of bool decodes.
The advantages of moving EOB one step down as opposed to two steps down
in the other parallel patch are: 1. The coef modeling based on
the One-node becomes independent of the tree structure above it, and
2. Fewer conext/counter increases are needed.
The drawback is that the potential savings in bool decodes will be
less, but assuming that 0s are much more predominant than 1's the
potential savings is still likely to be substantial.
Results on derf300: -0.237%
Change-Id: Ie784be13dc98291306b338e8228703a4c2ea2242
Removed one 4x4 prediction step that was unnessary in the rd loop.
Removed a unused modecosts estimate from encoder side.
Change-Id: I65221a52719d6876492996955ef04142d2752d86
1. remove prediction mode conversion
2. unified bmode, same for key and non-key frame
3. set I4X4_PRED count for pdf to 0, as I4X4_PRED is no longer
coded ever. It is determined by ref_frame and block partition
Change-Id: If5b282957c24339b241acdb9f2afef85658fe47d
Also do per-partition motion vector referencing in <sb8x8 partitions,
and adjust mvref finding for sub8x8 partitions.
Change-Id: Id3ed1ed4d2a8910d11d327db6cc63b8eb79f941f
Move 4x4/4x8/8x4 partition coding out of experimental list.
This commit fixed the unit test failure issues. It also resolved
the merge conflicts between 4x4 block level partition and iterative
motion search for comp_inter_inter.
Change-Id: I898671f0631f5ddc4f5cc68d4c62ead7de9c5a58
This commit allows the rate-distortion optimization recursion
at encoder to go down to 4x4 block size. It deprecates the use
of I4X4_PRED and SPLITMV syntax elements from bit-stream
writing/reading. Will remove the unused probability models in
the next patch.
The partition type search and bit-stream are now capable of
supporting the rectangular partition of 8x8 block, i.e., 8x4
and 4x8. Need to revise the rate-distortion parts to get these
two partition tested in the rd loop.
Change-Id: I0dfe3b90a1507ad6138db10cc58e6e237a06a9d6
This commit enables the search for the optimal superblock
partition types in the recursion form. The intention is to
make the optimization process more concise and ready to
support partition down to 4x4 block size next.
Change-Id: Iae279a67df3a7cc372553c84c775bc4d2f3e4336
This allows removing a large number of transform size specific functions,
as well as supporting 444/alpha by routing all code through the
subsampling-aware path.
Change-Id: Ieb085cebe9f37f24fc24de179898b22abfda08a4
Work-in-progress, not yet ready for review. TODO items:
- bitstream writing (encoder) and reading (decoder)
- decoder reconstruction
Change-Id: I5afb7284e7e0480847b47cd0097cb469433c9081
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I593fb0715e74cd84b48facd1c9b18c3ae1185d4b
This commit enables selecting probability models for recursive block
partition information syntax, depending on its above/left partition
information, as well as the current block size. These conditional
probability models are reasonably stationary and consistent across
frames, hence the backward adaptive approach is used to maintain and
update the contextual models.
It achieves coding performance gains (on top of enabling rectangular
block sizes):
derf: 0.242%
yt: 0.391%
hd: 0.376%
stdhd: 0.645%
Change-Id: Ie513d9673337f0d27abd65fb566b711d0844ec2e
Quantizers can vary per plane, but not per block. Move these values to
the per-plane part of MACROBLOCK.
Change-Id: I320a55e38b7b28b29aec751a4aca5ccd0c9b9326
This commit moves the coeff storage from the MACROBLOCK struct to its
per-plane part. The next commit will remove the coeff member from the
BLOCK structure so that it is consistently accessed per-plane.
Also refactors vp9_sb_block_error_c and vp9_sb_uv_block_error_c to be
variable subsampling aware.
Change-Id: I18c30f87f27c3a012119b6c1970d5fa499804455
First in a series of commits making certain MACROBLOCK members
addressable per-plane. This commit also refactors the block subtraction
functions vp9_subtract_b, vp9_subtract_sby_c, etc to be
loops-over-planes and variable subsampling aware.
Change-Id: I371d092b914ae0a495dfd852ea1a3d2467be6ec3
This version of speed 1 only disables modes at higher resolution that
had distortions >2x the best mode we found...
The hope is that this could be a replacement for speed 0 ...
Change-Id: I7421f1016b8958314469da84c4dccddf25390720
Adds RD integration for 32x16, 16x32, 64x32 and 32x64 rectangular blocks.
Derf almost +0.6%, HD a little over +1.0%, STDHD +1.3%.
Change-Id: Id651fdb6a655fdbb5c47009757e63317acfb88a5
Merge sb32x32 and sb64x64 functions; allow for rectangular sizes. Code
gives identical encoder results before and after. There are a few
macros for rectangular block sizes under the sbsegment experiment; this
experiment is not yet functional and should not yet be used.
Change-Id: I71f93b5d2a1596e99a6f01f29c3f0a456694d728
