If --enable-ext-partition is used at build time, the superblock size
(sometimes also referred to as coding unit (CU) size) is extended to
128x128 pixels.
Change-Id: Ie09cec6b7e8d765b7555ff5d80974aab60803f3a
If configured with --enable-ext-tile, the codec uses an alternative
tile coding syntax in the bitstream. Changes include::
- The maximum number of tile rows and columns is extended to 1024
each.
- The minimum tile width/height is 64 pixels (1 superblock).
- A tile copy mode is added where a tile directly reuse the coded
data of a previous tile
- The meaning of the tile-columns and tile-rows codec parameters are
overloaded to mean tile-width and tile-height in units of 64
pixels.
- All tiles should now be independent, including rows within the
same columns, so large scale parallel, or independent decoding is
possible.
- vpxdec also gained the options to decode only a particular tile,
tile row, or tile column.
Changes without --enable-ext-tile:
- All tiles should now be independent, including rows within the
same columns, so large scale parallel, or independent decoding is
possible.
- vpxenc default tile configuration changed to use 1 tile column.
Change-Id: I0cd08ad550967ac18622dae5e98ad23d581cb33e
This has been ported under ext_partition_types because it is due
to be combined with the coding_unit_size experiment which is
already being ported under ext_partition
Change-Id: I47af869ae123ddf0aa99160dac644059d14266ee
This commit re-designs the probability model for the syntax elements
of the dynamic motion vector referencing system.
Change-Id: Icfb8203c7e8f64e10e99f5890e25e6f6b15fe5d1
This patch added two features to improve entropy coding efficiency
for coefficient tokens.
1. Choose 1 of 4 default probability tables based on q-index for
key-frames.
It is ported from nextgen branch:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/280586/
2. Do backward update after each superblock (64X64) row using
subframe token counts.
Coding gain: 0.1% on lowres; 0.42% on midres; 0.36% on hdres.
Much larger gain for key-frames: 2.6%, 2.3%, 1.7%.
Design doc: go/huisu-entropy
Change-Id: Ia3b6a615636be09247d70e4c520405637561532b
Using the up-sampled reference frames in sub-pixel motion search is
enabled as a speed feature for good-quality mode speed 0 and speed 1.
Change-Id: Ieb454bf8c646ddb99e87bd64c8e74dbd78d84a50
Up-sampled the reference frames to 8 times in each dimension using
the 8-tap interpolation filter. In sub-pixel motion search, use the
up-sampled reference frames to find the best matching blocks. This
largely improved the motion search precision, and thus, improved
the compression quality. There was no change in decoder side.
Borg test and speed test results:
1. On derflr set,
Overall PSNR gain: 1.306%, and SSIM gain: 1.512%.
Average speed loss on derf set was 6.0%.
2. On stdhd set,
Overall PSNR gain: 0.754%, and SSIM gain: 0.814%.
On hevchd set,
Overall PSNR gain: 0.465%, and SSIM gain: 0.527%.
Speed loss on HD clips was 3.5%.
Change-Id: I300ebaafff57e88914f3dedc8784cb21d316b04f
This commit accounts for the context based probability model for
motion vector cost estimate in rate-distortion optimization.
Change-Id: Ia068a9395dcb4ecc348f128b17b8d24734660b83
This makes all metric computation to locate at some place, also gets
rid of duplicate code between vp9 and vp10.
Change-Id: I24a2707d183a2419cd18a8343010adae185ffcd4
In this experiment, an obmc inter prediction mode is enabled for
>= 8X8 inter blocks. When the obmc flag is on, the regular block-
based motion compensation will be refined by using predictors of
the above and left blocks.
Fixed some compatibility issues with vp9_highbitdepth, supertx,
ref_mv, and ext_interp.
Coding gain (%) on derflr/hevcmr/hevchd
OBMC:
1.047/1.022/0.708
OBMC + SUPERTX:
1.652/1.616/1.137
SUPERTX:
0.862/0.779/0.630
Change-Id: I5d8d3c4729c6d3ccb03ec7034563107893103b7f
This commit enables entropy coding for dynamic reference motion
vector modes. The probability model is contexted on the ranking
categories of the reference motion vector candidates.
Change-Id: I09b58d98a409d63ec1a407331e29f8945b7ef17d
BD-rate performance improvement (on top of ext-intra):
derflr 0.22%
hevclr 0.36%
hevcmr 0.48%
hevchr 0.37%
stdhd 0.19%
Average speed impact on some derf clips is about 40% slower (on
top of ext-intra). Speed improvment is a to-do.
Change-Id: I8fe3fe8c5e4f60d0462778adbcc15c84dfbe7a25
Combinations of different mv modes for two reference frames
are allowed in compound inter modes. 9 options are enabled,
including NEAREST_NEARESTMV, NEAREST_NEARMV, NEAR_NEARESTMV,
NEAREST_NEWMV, NEW_NEARESTMV, NEAR_NEWMV, NEW_NEARMV, ZERO_ZEROMV,
and NEW_NEWMV.
This experiment is mostly deported from the nextgen branch.
It is made compatible with other experiments
Coding gain of EXT_INTER(derflr/hevcmr/hevchd): 0.533%/0.728%/0.639%
Change-Id: Id47e97284e6481b186870afbad33204b7a33dbb0
Current implementation is a bilateral filter whose
parameters are transmitted in the bitstream.
derflr: -0.647% BDRATE
hevcmr: -0.794% BDRATE
This is a prelimary patch. Various other variations are to
be investigated next, that will hopefully be less expensive
on the decoder side.
Change-Id: I50634ae8f5014ad0bf7432306348908a349d81e1
NEW2MV is enabled, representing a new motion vector predicted from
NEARMV. It is mostly ported from nextgen, where it was named
NEW_INTER.
A few fixes are done for sub8x8 RDO to correct some misused
mv references in the original patch.
A 'bug-fix' for encoding complexity is done, reducing the additional
encoding time from 50% to 20%. In sub8x8 case, the old patch
did motion search for every interpolation filter (vp9 only
searches once). This fix also slightly improves the coding gain.
This experiment has been made compatible with REF_MV and EXT_REFS.
Coding gain (derflr/hevcmr/hevchd): 0.267%/0.542%/0.257%
Change-Id: I9a94c5f292e7454492a877f65072e8aedba087d4
The nominal tx_type for a given mode is used as a context
to encode the actual tx_type for intra.
Results:
derflr: -0.241% BDRATE
hevcmr: -0.366% BDRATE
Change-Id: Icfe7b0a58d79bc6497a06e3441779afec6e01e21
For the experiment of EXT_REFS, removed the previous special handling
on the new last 3 references, i.e. LAST2_FRAME, LAST3_FRAME, and
LAST4_FRAME, at the decoder, so that these new last references are
treated the same way as the other 3 references (LAST_FRAME,
GOLDEN_FRAME, and ALTREF_FRAME). Encoder changes have been made
accordingly to realize this flexibility.
Change-Id: Ic6546f9443b4377bb7e7b101bfa3e70a8b8d1c65
This commit re-works the entropy coding scheme of the motion
compensated prediction modes. It allows more flexible hyperplane
partition for precise classification.
Change-Id: Iba5035c76691946cf1386b6c495e399c3d9c8fc5
This change has been imported from VP9 and
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 natural video clips, however, where the step search
is performing well, the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Iac24152ae239f42a246f39ee5f00fe62d193cb98
Under the experiment of EXT_REFS: LAST2_FRAME, LAST3_FRAME, and
LAST4_FRAME.
Coding efficiency: derflr +1.601%; hevchr +1.895%
Speed: Encoder slowed down by ~75%
Change-Id: Ifeee5f049c2c1f7cb29bc897622ef88897082ecf
Remove MISC_FIXES flags except for the changes on MV precision, which
has a 0.1% performance drop.
On derflr, the impact is -0.012%.
Change-Id: I0a74e5a212dd0cb827192a318c92a714c9681e45
Allows inter and intra tx_types to have different sets of
transforms for different tx_size/sb_type combinations.
Change-Id: Ic0ac1daef7a9fb15c4210271e4d04cd36e5cec8e
This has various benefits:
- simplify implementations because we don't have to switch between
multiple probability tables depending on frametype
- allows fw subexp and bw adaptivity for partitions/uvmode in keyframes
See issue 1040 point 5.
Change-Id: Ia566aa2863252d130cee9deedcf123bb2a0d3765
Locate them (code-wise) in frame_context, and have them be updated
as any other probability using the subexp forward and adaptive bw
updates.
See issue 1040 point 1.
TODOs:
- real-world default probabilities
- why is counts sometimes NULL in the decoder? Does that mean bw
adaptivity updates only work on some frames? (I haven't looked
very closely yet, maybe this is a red herring.)
Change-Id: I23b57b4e5e7574b75f16eb64823b29c22fbab42e
Account for rounding in distortion calculation in k-means;
carry out rounding before duplicates removal of base colors;
replace numbers with macros;
use prefix increment.
Slight coding gain (<0.1%) on screen_content testset.
Change-Id: Ie8bd241266da6b82c7b2874befc3a0c72b4fcd8c
We only write EOSB tokens if we write tokens (i.e. not for skip blocks),
and we write EOSB tokens per-plane instead of per block.
Change-Id: I8d7ee99f8ec50eb7ae809f9f9282c1c91dbf6537
Add palette mode for keyframe luma channel. Palette mode is enabled
when using "--tune-content=screen" in encoding config parameters.
on screen_content testset: +6.89%
on derlr : +0.00%
Design doc (WIP):
https://goo.gl/lD4yJw
Change-Id: Ib368b216bfd3ea21c6c27436934ad87afdaa6f88
