This commit enables the new temporal filter system for VP9. For
speed 1, it improves the compression performance:
derf 0.54%
stdhd 1.62%
Change-Id: I041760044def943e464345223790d4efad70b91e
This is so we may update level at any time (e.g., to be used
for setting thresholds in variance-based partition).
Change-Id: I32caad2271b8e03017a531f9ea456a6dbb9d49c7
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
Change initial state of noise level, and only update
denoiser with noise level when estimate is done.
Change-Id: If44090d29949d3e4927e855d88241634cdb395dc
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 makes sure last reference with zero mv
is always checked for mode selection.
No change in metrics.
Change-Id: Iaf01877bf34272b966c78bfe18daad882a0a419e
the final sum may use up to 26 bits
+ add a unit test
+ disable the sse2 as the result will rollover; this will be fixed in a
future commit
Change-Id: I2a49811dfaa06abfd9fa1e1e65ed7cd68e4c97ce
Change on affects 1 pass CBR.
On key frame, temporal layer_id is reset to 0 for 1 pass CBR,
but since "layer" is reset, the svc.layer_context[layer].is_key_frame
was not correspondingly set properly.
Change-Id: I08f6da0a55ac7429ccfbaddfb7be14479e43543b
Small changes to the best quality default speed trade off.
Some speedup settings are worth while even for best quality as they
have only a very small impact on quality but a significant impact on
encode time.
These changes give as much as a further 50-60% increase in encode
speed for my test animations clip with minimal impact on quality.
For this sequence these changes improve the best quality encode speed
to about the same level as good quality speed 0 in Q3 2015 whilst
retaining the large quality gain of over 1 db
For many natural videos though the quality difference from good 0
to best is much smaller.
Change-Id: I28b3840009d77e129817a78a7c41e29cb03e1132
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
This function now has an AVX intrinsics version which is about 80%
faster compared to the C implementation. This provides a 2-4% total
speed-up for encode, depending on encoding parameters. The function
utilizes 3 properties of the cost function lookup table, constructed
in 'cal_nmvjointsadcost' and 'cal_nmvsadcosts'.
For the joint cost:
- mvjointsadcost[1] == mvjointsadcost[2] == mvjointsadcost[3]
For the component costs:
- For all i: mvsadcost[0][i] == mvsadcost[1][i]
(equal per component cost)
- For all i: mvsadcost[0][i] == mvsadcost[0][-i]
(Cost function is even)
These must hold, otherwise the AVX version of the function cannot be used.
Change-Id: I6c2791d43022822a9e6ab43cd124a773946d0bdc
Change is only for real-time mode, speed >= 5, and non-screen content mode.
Add bias to zero/low motion for big blocks, if noise estimation
is enabled and noise level is above threshold.
Change-Id: I3a0a4608ede6aa535bda6eca528d20f8aba738e7