Add function to compute skin map for a given block, as its
used in several places (cyclic refresh, noise estimation, and denoising).
Change-Id: Ied622908df43b6927f7fafc6c019d1867f2a24eb
For coding block sizes <=16X16, if the block is determined to be skin,
then always allow for that block to be candidate for refresh. So if that
block happens to be on the boost segment(s), segment won't get reset to 0
and delta-q will be applied.
PSNR/SSIM metrics neutral (little/no change) on RTC clips.
Speed increase small/negligible (< 1%).
Some visual improvement on faces in a few RTC clips.
Change-Id: I6bf0fce6f39d820b491ce05d7c017ad168fce7d6
Source noise level estimate is also useful for
setting variance encoder parameters (variance thresholds,
qp-delta, mode selection, etc), so allow it to be used also
if denoising is not on.
Change-Id: I4fe23d47607b4e17a35287057f489c29114beed1
Adjust variance threshold, delta-qp, and intra penalty cost,
based on estimated noise level in source.
Replace denoising_on with a level value=L/M/H.
Change-Id: I0c017dae75a5d897367d2c42dec26f2f37e447c1
Adjust the qp threshold and consec_zeromv threshold for
limiting cyclic refresh. Also increase the refresh period
when the limit amount is significant, and some code-cleanup.
Small gain in PSNR/SSIM metrics: ~0.25/0.3 gain on RTC set, speed 7.
Change only affects non-screen content.
Change-Id: I1ced87a89a132684c071e722616e445b2d18236a
Small code cleanup. consec_zeromv refresh threshold
does not need to be computed for every super-block.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I8c4b1b28072f42b01d917fff6d1f62722f1e1554
Use the existing QP condition on limiting cyclic refresh, and add
addiitonal condition that block has been encoded with zero/small motion
x frames in row (where x is at least several times the refresh period).
Additional condition only affect non-screen content mode.
This helps to improve visual stability for noisy input, where on steady
background areas the application of delta_qp may lead to encoding the noise.
Also added a change to use the true skip (after encoding) to update the
last QP.
Change-Id: I234a1128d017d284cf767fdb58ef6c59d809f679
For 1 pass CBR spatial-SVC:
Add cyclic refresh parameters to the svc-layer context.
This allows cyclic refresh (aq-mode=3) to be applied to
the whole super-frame (all spatial layers).
This gives a performance improvement for spatial layer encoding.
Addd the aq_mode mode on/off setting as command line option.
Change-Id: Ib9c3b5ba3cb7851bfb8c37d4f911664bef38e165
Use the correct period (in terms of cr->percent_refresh) for the condition
of larger delta-qp following key frame.
And account for larger interval for temporal layers.
Change-Id: Ibb43f5200f9b1eeb8bbb8211327b08ecda3c3b8a
In aq-mode=3 under a resizing action (i.e., resize_pending != 0),
force an update of the golden reference frame.
Change-Id: I14806f6db71b5f8c827678cc5e1fc913c138a9a4
Reduce boost for segment#2 for low bitrates and low-res.
This change is to reduce the rate overshoot at low bitrates.
No change in behavior, except at the very low bitrates.
Change-Id: I0dbd9d3b6356da5804de94adf10fca6a7a8f8948
For screen content don't refresh a block at a quantizer higher than
it was last coded at. PReviosuly at realtime speeds the encoder had a
tendency to recode a block from GOLDEN with a higher Q than it was last
coded at.
Change-Id: Iacd561806c769dcce1a81b9827ffc70090f5ba18
Decision to scale down/up is based on buffer state and average QP
over previous time window. Limit the total amount of down-scaling
to be at most one scale down for now.
Reset certain quantities after resize (buffer level, cyclic refresh,
rate correction factor).
Feature is enable via the setting rc_resize_allowed = 1.
Change-Id: I9b1a53024e1e1e953fb8a1e1f75d21d160280dc7
Reduce motion threshold and boost factor for second segment,
for low bitrates, at low resolutions for now.
This is to reduce the rate fluctuation/frame dropping that occurs
at these low bitrates.
Change-Id: Ia66c3be41831882fca8c1e4fe104f5ea8fbe7142
The default golden frame interval was doubled. After encoding a
frame, the background motion was measured. If the motion was high,
the current frame was set as the golden frame. Currently, the
changes were applied only while aq-mode 3 was on.
Borg tests(rtc set) showed a 0.226% PSNR gain and 0.312% SSIM gain.
No speed changes.
Change-Id: Id1e2793cc5be37e8a9bacec1380af6f36182f9b1
Factor in segment#2 and skip blocks into the postencode estimated bits,
and increase somewhat the aggressiveness of the refresh.
PSNR/SSIM Metrics on RTC set go up by ~0.8/0.5%.
Change-Id: I5d4e7cb00a3aefb25d18c88b6b24118b72dc5d51
For non-SVC 1 pass CBR: make the GF update interval a multiple of the
cyclic refresh period, and use encoding stats to prevent GF update at certain times.
Change-Id: I4c44cacc2f70f1d27391a47644837e1eaa065017
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
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
Incorporate segment delta-q into estimated bits.
This generally improves the rate control under cyclic refresh (aq=3) mode.
Change-Id: I1dc60fb230e7d08357fae18909d8ed27bf58e037
Two members in struct CYCLIC_REFRESH
int64_t projected_rate_sb;
int64_t projected_dist_sb;
are updated at the superblock level, which makes them shared data
in the multi-thread situation, and requires extra work to handle
them. However, those values are updated and used immediately, and
therefore can be removed. This patch cleaned up the code and
removed the two members.
Change-Id: I2c6ee4552bf49fb63ce590cdb47f9723974fffb1
This commit removes the cyclic aq mode dependency on
in_static_area and reworks the corresponding cut-off thresholds.
It improves the compression performance of speed -5 by 1.47% in
PSNR and 2.07% in SSIM, and the compression performance of speed
-6 by 3.10% in PSNR and 5.25% in SSIM. Speed wise, about 1% faster
in both settings at high bit-rates.
Change-Id: I1ffc775afdc047964448d9dff5751491ba4ff4a9
vp9_rdopt is for making rd optimal mode decisions. vp9_rd is for all
other rd related routines. Anything used outside of making an rd optimal
decision belongs in rd.
Change-Id: I772a3073f7588bdf139f551fb9810b6864d8e64b
This commit enables a background detection approach for adaptive
quantizer control. It combines the cyclic refresh pattern and the
background information to determine the segment id for adaptive
quantizer selection, prior to the non-RD mode decision process.
It hence allows proper quantization information update for a more
precise rate-distortion modeling in the non-RD mode decision.
The compression performance of speed -5 for rtc set is improved
by 2.5%, at no speed change.
Change-Id: Ic3713e8ed9185b403b5b1679d19dabd57506d452
For real-time mode under cbr, this increases the gain (5-10%)
for speed 5 (none/little change for 6), on vc-clips.
Change-Id: I9b38beeb3c820de22c43a0ba53a9456168dd24ba
Removes a TODO. Changed meaning of some parameters
(target-max-percent refresh and starting index) to be
defined relative to superblock. Also, modify turn-off condition.
Change-Id: I5e55f372b7079c24f9cdac0b06fa34620dbf456b
