Make the vp9_int_pro_motion_estimation() function return zero
motion vector if high bit depth is turned on, instead of removing
it from compiled codes.
Change-Id: Ia48f010eb590b2d517d5678c394110b326a1a95e
Choose_partition uses only the last frame as reference frame in making
partition decision, this commit adds the check on how well Golden
frame with (0,0) predicts the current block, and uses GF(0,0) as
basis for partition decision if it produces better prediction.
The commit improves rtc speed 6 and 7 encoding by 0.14% and 0.19%
respectively.
Change-Id: I156acf925bd6e0b586d48155d1940d27270a3915
Force 64x64 partitioning when a whole superblock is SEGMENT_LVL_SKIP. This
drops encode times of screens mostly at rest by 20%.
Change-Id: Ieba554b0b8a0c1679aae784a8bd11f038ab942c3
While turning on "--aq_mode=3", the quantizers are updated by each
thread. Fixed the me consts initialization function to make sure
that the correct thread data are updated.
Change-Id: Ied27bb7bae76fc3fa2cda4f8c35ac0b46271bef4
This saves an extra 64x64 variance calculation and replaces two
32x32 variance functions with sad functions. The compression
performance change is unnoticeable.
Change-Id: I6d33868695664ec73b56c42945162ae61c484856
Frame buffers are now allocated dynamically on-demand.
Entries in the reference frame map, cm->ref_frame_map,
may now be set to -1 (INVALID_IDX) to indicate that
there is not a valid reference buffer in that "slot".
All slots in the reference frame map are now initialized
to the empty state (-1) and each buffer is initialized
to have a reference count of 0.
Change-Id: Id1afe98de98db4ae8b2dfefed7889c3b28c68582
Use rectangular block size for integral projection motion estimation
if the the 64x64 block has over half block outside the frame. This
avoids the issue that the motion information of these blocks is
dominated by the extended pixels, instead of the pixels of interest.
Change-Id: I22f4d2bb7f6a20db9b3f5e2e5463a7f4b9d1b737
The rounding factor needs to be scaled down by a factor of 2.
Also, the quantized and dequantized coefficients are memset to 0
when dc quantizer is used.
Change-Id: Ifa68bab02addbf1b83d249c5b4cbd5cda796b1cf
Instead using only a fixed threshold, this commit adapts the threshold
for color sensitivity decision to luma signal energy: chroma channel's
sse is at least 1/6 of that in luma for color sensitivity flag to be
set to active.
This recoups a large portion of the speed loss due to accounting for
chroma component costs in RTC mode decision.
Change-Id: Ie01f747f6037dba6a1d1ed3e10b71a0ef1abc42c
This commit replaces the SAD with variance as metric for the
integral projection vector match. It improves the search accuracy
in the presence of slight light change. The average speed -6
compression performance for rtc set is improved by 1.7%. No speed
changes are observed for the test clips.
Change-Id: I71c1d27e42de2aa429fb3564e6549bba1c7d6d4d
This commit applies one-step refinement search to the resulting
motion vector of the integral projectiion based motion estimation,
per 64x64 block. It improves the coding performance of speed -6.
pedestrian 1080p 500 kbps
51735 b/f, 36.794 dB, 16044 ms ->
51382 b/f, 36.793 dB, 16282 ms
cloud 1080p 500 kbps
24081 b/f, 37.988 dB, 14016 ms ->
23597 b/f, 38.076 dB, 12774 ms
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
16552 b/f, 40.514 dB, 8279 ms ->
16553 b/f, 40.543 dB, 8510 ms
The rtc set compression performance is improved by 0.5%.
Change-Id: I3d09bea2caf58b2a4f3b38aa26fffafcbe9a2c17
This commit modifies the hierarchical vector match patter. It
avoids repeated SAD computation at same points. The function
vp9_vector_sad_sse2 is called 12 times per 64x64 block, instead
of 15 times as before. The effective coverage remains the same.
Change-Id: I91ad9d27d40db8963c907d02af84e10702136994
Target higher delta-qp for big blocks with zero motion,
and for segment#1: avoid 64x64 partition size and force 8x8 tx size.
Metrics on RTC set mostly positive: SSIM up by ~4%, PSRN by ~1.5%.
Doesn't seem to be any change in speed.
Change-Id: I1f68fa3c4f62dab3b90cc58041f05ebb048ae5ac
This commit introduces a new block match motion estimation
using integral projection measurement. The 2-D block and the nearby
region is projected onto the horizontal and vertical 1-D vectors,
respectively. It then runs vector match, instead of block match,
over the two separate 1-D vectors to locate the motion compensated
reference block.
This process is run per 64x64 block to align the reference before
choosing partitioning in speed 6. The overall CPU cycle cost due
to this additional 64x64 block match (SSE2 version) takes around 2%
at low bit-rate rtc speed 6. When strong motion activities exist in
the video sequence, it substantially improves the partition
selection accuracy, thereby achieving better compression performance
and lower CPU cycles.
The experiments were tested in RTC speed -6 setting:
cloud 1080p 500 kbps
17006 b/f, 37.086 dB, 5386 ms ->
16669 b/f, 37.970 dB, 5085 ms (>0.9dB gain and 6% faster)
pedestrian_area 1080p 500 kbps
53537 b/f, 36.771 dB, 18706 ms ->
51897 b/f, 36.792 dB, 18585 ms (4% bit-rate savings)
blue_sky 1080p 500 kbps
70214 b/f, 33.600 dB, 13979 ms ->
53885 b/f, 33.645 dB, 10878 ms (30% bit-rate savings, 25% faster)
jimred 400 kbps
13380 b/f, 36.014 dB, 5723 ms ->
13377 b/f, 36.087 dB, 5831 ms (2% bit-rate savings, 2% slower)
Change-Id: Iffdb6ea5b16b77016bfa3dd3904d284168ae649c
This is to avoid redo the same calculation repeatly, and also allow
easier adjustments for further experiments.
This commit shall have no effect on quality/compression.
Change-Id: I4460acf5c808ff5518da18d21e002c5da58af857
This commit fixes the sub block partition size used in
fill_mode_info_sb. Previous implementation effectively disabled
the rectangular block sizes. This commit resolved this issue.
Change-Id: Ic1c383ab0a9a2e7d59e85b388093f1f1f94d1e7f
On rtc set:
speed 7 quality improves about 0.5%
speed 8 quality improves about 1.0%
Encoding time for speed 7 changes from 67804ms to 65889ms
Encoding time for speed 8 changes from 58659ms to 56808ms
Change-Id: Iabcfb53012fc1b9f3326cdbc167e5758b8c7ad30
This commit allows the encoder to account for additional chroma
plane costs in the mode decision process, if the current block
potentially contains significant color change. It improves the
visual quality at very low bit-rates.
The compression performance of dark720p is improved by 12.39% in
speed 6. For jimred at 150 kbps, the PSNR of V component (red)
increased by 0.2 dB, at the expense of about 5% increase in
encoding time. Note that for sequences where the chroma components
are fairly consistent, the encoding time increase is negligible.
On average the rtc set compression performance is improved by
1.172% in PSNR and 1.920% in SSIM.
Change-Id: Ia55b24ef23a25304f7ec9958fbf07fd6e658505c
1. move the check of search method of USE_TX_8X8 up one level to
avoid operations of build_tree_distributions()
2. count tx used and avoid computaton for coef udpate when one size
is not used at all.
Change-Id: Ia3e54a2588aa531c41377a1bfaa64385d04a592c
Floating point is used in vp9_convert_qindex_to_q(), so sometime unit
test ActiveMapTest would cause run time error without properly call
to clear_system_state to reset register status.
Change-Id: I181e9395148c44a6ca8b97d6e109bd4a152143c6
Add distortion threshold condition to refresh state of a coding block,
and allow for qp adjustment also for some intra modes and non-zero motion modes.
Also some code cleanup (remove unused variables/code).
Change-Id: I735fa2b28bc64f60e0323976b82510577b074203
For low spatial resolutions: bias partittion selection to smaller block sizes,
and base the variance computation on 4x4 down-sampling.
Also move the threshold computations into the choose_partitioning,
so they are computed once for each sb block.
On low-res clips (RTC_derf) PSNR/SSIMetrics increase by about 4-5%.
No change for resolutions above CIF.
Change-Id: I93f8ff742c8044786977bb6e31dcf8efda6dd1b0
This makes the inter_mode counts update consistent with other symbols.
Also, forward updates should work corerctly now.
Change-Id: Id98be26fd08875162e644bb8f1de6f0918f85396
Check if block size is below 8x8 for rectangular block coding. It
is added to support 4x8 and 8x4 block coding for RTC mode.
Change-Id: I760b328f45b98ae48adc45ed5a39fb643cd8aebd
This commit enables sub8x8 inter block coding for RTC mode. The
use of sub8x8 blocks can be turned on by allowing
choose_partitioning function to select 4x4/4x8/8x4 block sizes.
Change-Id: Ifbf1fb3888fe4c094fc85158ac3aa89867d8494a
Initial patch to remove get_zbin_mode_boost() and
cpi->zbin_mode_boost.
For now sets a dummy value of 0 for zbin extra pending
a further clean up patch.
Change-Id: I64a1e1eca2d39baa8ffb0871b515a0be05c9a6af
Change 72141 introduced a new use of vp9_avg_4x4.
This call needs to switch to using vp9_highbd_avg_4x4
when performing high bitdepth encodes.
Change-Id: I6a8ba4b62f8a75d0a917b365a55245e2f0438ea1
This commit fixes a bug in the PICK_MODE_CONTEXT index for
horizontal partition case. The compression performance change
is less than 0.01% level, since most blocks are selected to
use square block size in RTC coding mode.
Change-Id: I67effc18ae8795fccdd82a55f4efc609fa5cb3e1
For key frame under variance source partition: 4x4 prediction blocks
may be selected when variance of 8x8 block is very high (threshold is set fairly high for now).
Testing on some RTC clips shows this helps to reduce some ringing artifacts on key frame.
Encoded key frame size increases about ~10%. Key frame PSNR increases about ~0.1-0.2dB.
Change-Id: I56e203fac32ea6ef69897fb3ea269c59cb50d174
This commit explicitly uses the bit shift operation instead of
division for computing block variance.
Change-Id: Id19c0ff27dd1d1ae4aceee6657e1aad0d406bd74
This commit refactors the choose_partitioning function. It removes
redundant memset calls and makes the encoder to calculate
variance value per block only when it is needed. It reduces the
average runtime cost of choose_partitioning by 60%. Overall it
reduces speed -6 runtime by 2-5%.
Change-Id: I951922c50d901d0fff77a3bafc45992179bacef9
Update the frame motion vector only if previous frame motion vector
is needed for next frame reference motion vector.
Change-Id: Ica50f9d7b46ad4f815bba0d9e30f5546df29546f
This commit enables the use of sub8x8 blocks in RTC key frame
encoding. It requires the block size to be preset and will decide
the coding mode and encode the bit-stream.
Change-Id: I35aaf8ee2d4d6085432410c7963f339f85a2c19b
Rename set_modeinfo_offsets as set_mode_info_offsets, to be more
consistent with naming convention.
Change-Id: I68ca1f36c4a78127d9439a50c1506a2afd07927d
The later encoding process will take the top-left block's
mode_info for pre-determined block size.
Change-Id: I76a90f9ce7f3b2dbc2975b52442114e461c465b5
The restructure moves the decision into the rd pick
modes loop and makes a decision based at the 16x16
block level instead of only the 64x64 level.
This gives finer granularity and better visual results
on the clips I have tested. Metrics results are worse
than the old AQ2 especially for PSNR and this mode
now falls between AQ0 and AQ1 in terms of visual
impact and metrics results.
Further tuning of this to follow.
It should be noted that if there are multiple iterations
of the recode loop the segment for a MB could change
in each loop if the previous loop causes a change in the
complexity / variance bin of the block. Also where a block
gets a delta Q this will alter the rd multiplier for this block
in subsequent recode iterations and frames where the
segmentation is applied.
Change-Id: I20256c125daa14734c16f7cc9aefab656ab808f7
When block size is below 16x16, the encoder swap from non-RD to
RD mode for key frame coding. This largely brough back the key
frame compression performance. For vidyo1 at 1000 kbps, the key
frame coding statistics are changed
9978F, 34.183 dB, 36807 us -> 9838F, 35.020 dB, 61677 us
As compared to the full RD case
7187F, 34.930 dB, 214470 us
The overall rtc set coding performance (single key frame setting)
is improved by 1.5%.
Change-Id: I78a4ecf025d7b24ec911e85be94e01da05e77878
Currently, VP9 supports column-tile encoding, which allows a frame
to be encoded in multiple column tiles independently. The number of
column tiles are set by encoder option "--tile-columns". This
provides a way to encode a frame in parallel.
Based on previous set of patches, this patch implemented the tile-
based multi-threaded encoder. Each thread processes one or more
tiles.
Usage:
For HD clips:
--tile-columns=2 --threads=1/2/3/4
While using 4 threads, tests showed that the encoder achieved
2.3X - 2.5X speedup at good-quality speed 3, and 2X speedup at
realtime speed 5.
Change-Id: Ied987f8f2618b1283a8643ad255e88341733c9d4
For key frame at speed 6: enable the non-rd mode selection in speed setting
and use the (non-rd) variance_based partition.
Adjust some logic/thresholds in variance partition selection for key frame only (no change to delta frames),
mainly to bias to selecting smaller prediction blocks, and also set max tx size of 16x16.
Loss in key frame quality (~0.6-0.7dB) compared to rd coding,
but speeds up key frame encoding by at least 6x.
Average PNSR/SSIM metrics over RTC clips go down by ~1-2% for speed 6.
Change-Id: Ie4845e0127e876337b9c105aa37e93b286193405
Also removes some spurious changes in common/vp9_blockd.h which
was introduced by a rebase issue between nextgen and master branches.
Change-Id: If359f0e9a71bca9c2ba685a87a355873536bb282
(cherry picked from commit 005d80cd05)
(cherry picked from commit 08d2f54800)
(cherry picked from commit 4230c2306c)
Each tile's tok starting address is calculated before the encoding
process. These addresses are stored so that the same calculation
won't be done again in packing bit stream.
Change-Id: I0a3be0301f002260c19a850303f2f73ebc47aa50
This patch modified struct VP9_COMP. Created a struct ThreadData
to include data that need to be copied for each thread. In
multiple thread case, one thread processes one tile. all threads
share one copy of VP9_COMP,
(refer to VP9_COMP *cpi in the code)
but each thread has its own copy of ThreadData,
(refer to ThreadData *td in the code).
Therefore, within the scope of encode_tiles(), both cpi and td
need to be passed as function parameters.
In single thread case, the FRAME_COUNTS pointer in ThreadData
points to "counts" in VP9_COMMON.
Change-Id: Ib37908b2d8e2c0f4f9c18f38017df5ce60e8b13e
This commit makes a non-RD coding mode decision process for key
frame coding. It can be optionally turned on in speed -6 and above.
Change-Id: I0847258b392877a0210b4768bef88ebc9ad009b5
In AQ1 a rate adjustment was applied for blocks coded with a
deltaq. This tends to skew the partition selection and cause
rate overshoot.
For example, consider a 64x64 super block where some but not all
sub blocks are in a low q segment and some are in a high q segment.
The choice of Q when considering large partition and transform sizes
is defined by the lowest sub block segment id (currently this implies the
lowest Q). If some parts of the larger partition are very hard this will
cause a high rate component.
The correct behavior here is for the rd code to discard the large partition
choice and break down to sub blocks where some have low and some
have high Q. However the rate correction factor above mask the high
cost of coding at a larger partition size.
Change-Id: Ie077edd0b1b43c094898f481df772ea280b35960
Add an additional restriction to bit/complexity based
segmentation based on spatial variance.
Only lower Q when both the number of bits spent
in the initial encoding pass and the spatial complexity are
below a threshold. This will prevent the low Q segments
being used just because there is a surfeit of bits.
Small metrics gains especially opsnr.
derf ~0.2% std-hd ~0.3%
Change-Id: I6a8496d466d673f9b0e2b2ca6304ea7b6d8e1cce
This is the first of a series of patches to restructure and
improve AQ mode 1 (variance based AQ).
Change-Id: Idcf693131a3ea2459dcfd957a54a65b971fa4a2a
The max_partition_size and max_partition_size are set at the
beginning while setting speed features, and then adjusted at
SB level. Moving them to mb struct ensures there is a local
copy for each thread.
Change-Id: I7dd08dc918d9f772fcd718bbd6533e0787720ad4
Several frame counters in encoder are updated at SB level. Combine
those counters and put them in a separate struct, which allows us
to allocate one copy for each thread.
Change-Id: I00366296a13c0ada4d8fa12f5e07728388b6cab7
