Different quality levels are used for different regions in
the frame depending on how far they are vertically from the
center. Specifically, three segments are used based on the
mi_row index with respect number to the number of mi_rows in
the frame.
Change-Id: Ifc8b777bc58ea8521dffc4640360c67d99f8d381
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
Lower the threshold for splitting 32x32->16x16 based on average variance,
and add lower bound condition for this split to occur. This prevents
unneccassry splitting for areas with very low variance.
Change-Id: Ibeb33b3d993632c2019f296eb87ef3b7e3568189
For non-rd variannce partition, speed >= 5:
Adjustments to reduce dragging artifcat of background area near
slow moving boundary.
-Decrease base threshold under low source noise conditions.
-Add condition to split 64x64/32x32 based on average variances
of lower level blocks.
PSNR/SSIM metrics go down ~0.7/0.9% on average on RTC set.
Visually helps to reduce dragging artifact on some rtc clips.
Change-Id: If1f0a1aef1ddacd67464520ca070e167abf82fac
For non-rd variance partition: Adjust variance threhsold based
on noise level estimate. This change allows the adjustment to be
updated more frequently.
Change-Id: Ie2abf63bf3f1ee54d0bc4ff497298801fdb92b0d
For low resolutions, whem 4x4downsample is used for variance,
use the same force split (that is used for 8x8downsample) for 16x16 blocks.
No change in metrics. Small improvement visually.
Change-Id: I915b9895902d0b9a41e75d37fee1bf3714d2366d
For non-rd variance partition: only allow minmax computation
(which currently has no arm-neon optimization) for speeds < 8.
Performance loss is small: On RTC set with speed 8, few clips lose ~2/3%,
average loss is < 1%.
Change-Id: Ia9414f4d0b77dc83c3e73ca8de5d903f64b425ce
For denoising, and for noise level above threshold, re-evaluate
ZEROMV for mode selection after denoising.
Current change only does this check if selected best mode (before denoising)
was intra.
Change-Id: I4b1435b68d26c78f7597b995ee7bff0ddd5f9511
This change alters the nature and use of exhaustive motion search.
Firstly any exhaustive search is preceded by a normal step search.
The exhaustive search is only carried out if the distortion resulting
from the step search is above a threshold value.
Secondly the simple +/- 64 exhaustive search is replaced by a
multi stage mesh based search where each stage has a range
and step/interval size. Subsequent stages use the best position from
the previous stage as the center of the search but use a reduced range
and interval size.
For example:
stage 1: Range +/- 64 interval 4
stage 2: Range +/- 32 interval 2
stage 3: Range +/- 15 interval 1
This process, especially when it follows on from a normal step
search, has shown itself to be almost as effective as a full range
exhaustive search with step 1 but greatly lowers the computational
complexity such that it can be used in some cases for speeds 0-2.
This patch also removes a double exhaustive search for sub 8x8 blocks
which also contained a bug (the two searches used different distortion
metrics).
For best quality in my test animation sequence this patch has almost
no impact on quality but improves encode speed by more than 5X.
Restricted use in good quality speeds 0-2 yields significant quality gains
on the animation test of 0.2 - 0.5 db with only a small impact on encode
speed. On most clips though the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Id22967a840e996e1db273f6ac4ff03f4f52d49aa
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
Changes to the breakout behavior for partition selection.
The biggest impact is on speed 0 where encode speed in
some cases more than doubles with typically less than 1%
impact on quality.
Speed 0 encode speed impact examples
Animation test clip: +128%
Park Joy: +59%
Old town Cross: + 109%
Change-Id: I222720657e56cede1b2a5539096f788ffb2df3a1
Temporary fix to denoiser when dynamic resizing is on.
-Reallocate denoiser buffers on resized frame.
-Force golden update on resized frame.
-Don't denoise resized frame, and copy source into denoised buffers.
Change-Id: Ife7638173b76a1c49eac7da4f2a30c9c1f4e2000
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
Only test for using golden as reference for variance partition
selection if it is used as a reference for that frame.
For temporal layers, golden may not be a reference on a given frame,
even though it was for some previous frame. If it is not a reference
for current frame, don't check/use it for partition selection.
Change-Id: I6b0f2bd36aebbb5903077c9a0a66d80f1de9a7b1
Condition usage of rc.frames_since_golden to non-svc mode.
rc.frames_since_golden, which is used in non-svc mode to add second reference,
was causing, under certain condiiton, the turning off of golden reference
for svc case.
Change-Id: Icec644d235d0471e56d8ff73d6c37278bd6ecd3b
1. The RD scores obtained during the tx size selection were stored in the
tx cache, and used to help make the tx decision for the following frames.
This wasn't used anymore in VP9 encoder. Recovered the related decision
making code from 1.5+ years ago, and borg tests didn't show any quality
gain. This patch removed it to lower the complexity.
2. An optimization was done after the above refactoring. If the tx_mode
is not TX_MODE_SELECT, we only need to test the chosen tx size instead
of all posible tx sizes. This gave a 1.5% average speed gain at speed 2,
and a 1% average speed gain at speed 3.
Change-Id: Id8cd650e066a8cef33829d8c15388a8138adc78c
Changes to allow more use of rectangular partitions at
speeds 1 and 2 for content classed by the first pass as
animation and for blocks near the active image edge.
This has quite a big impact in quality for the animated
test sequence but also hurts encode speed for speed 2.
For other content types the impact on both speed and
quality is small.
Added some plumbing for detection of internal vertical
image edges.
Change-Id: I3fc48de2349f8cb87946caaf0b06dbb0ea261a9a
Change speed features / behavior for split mode when there
is an internal active edge (e.g. formatting bars).
Remove some threshold constraints in rd code near the active
edge of the image.
Add some plumbing for left and right active edge detection.
Patch set 5. Limit rd pass through for sub 8x8 to internal active edges.
This takes away any speed penalty for most clips but keeps the enhanced
edge coding for the more critical case of internal image edges
Change-Id: If644e4762874de4fe9cbb0a66211953fa74c13a5
If the pre-selected partition size (from variance partition) is
32x32, also apply nonrd partition search for 32x32 and 16x16 size.
Overall small positive gain in metrics, average ~1%.
Some visual improvement, for lower resolutions.
Change-Id: I69cb425bda94f7d13d34c451ab30e9276335a30e
Added code to reduce the minimum partition size searched
for super blocks at or straddling the edge of the image.
If the first pass has detected formatting bars the "active" edge
may not be the real edge.
Change-Id: I9c4bdd1477e60f162a75fac95ba6be7c3521e05c
