Downsampling filter for SVC was set to subsample (phase 0)
for HD -> VGA, and bilinear averaging (phase 8) for VGA -> QVGA.
This change makes it bilinear averaging for HD -> VGA.
Given the recent commit 9f9d4f8, quality is improved with
this change: avgPSNR/SSIM up ~1-3% on HD clips in RTC set.
Speed decrease of ~1% for 3 layer SVC.
Change-Id: If834a320e372b8b922a6bf7cab4227703b1beae6
Move the early exit checks on usable_ref_frame and
skip_ref_find_pref up before the check on flag_svc_subpel.
The code under flag_svc_subpel requires frame_mv to be set
for the golden/spatial reference, which is only set if the
both those exits don't pass.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: Id304276c745eeb389ff85fa2dcf510d5976bc413
For nonrd pickmode on a given spatial layer, the spatial
(golden) reference was always only using zeromv for prediction.
In this patch if the downsampling filter used for generating
the lower spatial layer is an averaging filter (nonzero phase),
we allow for subpel motion on the spatial (golden) reference to
compensate for the shift. This is done by forcing the testing of
nonzero motion mode to compensate for spatial downsampling shift.
Improvement for cases where the downsampling is averaging filter.
In the current code this is only done for generating
resolutions <= QVGA.
Improvement for avgPSNR/SSIM on RTC set for speed 7: ~1.2%.
Gain is larger (~2-3%) for VGA clips with 2 spatial layers.
~1% speed slowdown for 3 layer SVC on mac.
Change-Id: I9ec4fa20a38947934fc650594596c25280c3b289
Set num_inter_modes based on ref_mode_set_svc, which is
smaller set than ref_mode_set (which may use alt-ref).
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I31169bb09028db230552c6fca0a86959d1ade692
Avoids duplicate computation of UV predictor.
Bit-exact when static_threshold is zero.
Small/neutral difference on RTC set with nonzero static_threshold
(since UV predictor won't be skipped with this change).
Small speed gain, ~1-2%, at speed 8.
Change-Id: Iba8d22a307768b391e29d63c9826aac5a4d9c285
this is only meant for testing. along with --enable-experimental
--enable-spatial-svc require VPX_TEST_SPATIAL_SVC to be defined rather
than bumping the encoder ABI.
Change-Id: I7f34d9f60300fa31ccf22e1a4aa619392c391b2e
For 1 pass cbr SVC: GOLDEN is the spatial reference,
better not to check for encoder_breakout on this reference.
Small positive ~0.075% (mostly neutral) gain in avgPSNR/SSIM metrics.
No observed change in encoder speed.
Change-Id: Ib337f16d6771105bf06384c6a23ad047fc690418
For the case when the number of temporal layers > 1,
the buffer levels (starting/optimal_buffer_level,
and maximum_buffer_size) were not scaled properly.
In vp9_update_layer_context_change_config():
when setting the layer-buffer levels, fix is to scale
the layer-target_bandwidth by the target_bandwidth
(which is the full stream bandwidth) instead of the
spatial_layer_target.
This is needed because prior to the call
vp9_update_layer_context_change_config(), set_rc_buffer_sizes()
is called which sets the buffer levels based on target bandwidth
(which is the full bandwidth for the SVC stream).
This fix properly sets the layer-buffer levels based on the
layer-bandwidth, and leads to better rate targeting.
Small/neutral change in avgPSNR/SSIM metrics on RTC set.
Change-Id: Ic0f4f7f3487c37b9a9adb4781ae5edfed7140a57
Control Flow Integrity [1] indirect call checking verifies that function
pointers only call valid functions with a matching type signature. This
change eliminates function pointer casts to make libvpx CFI-safe.
[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/control-flow-integrity
Change-Id: I7e08522d195a43c88cda06fa20414426c8c4372c
For reference frames: enable scale partition for
superblocks with low source sad or if bsize on lower-resoln
is at least 32x32.
Keep feature disabled for base temporal layer.
Small regression in avgPNSR/SSIM metrics, ~0.5-1%.
Speedup ~2-3% on mac for SVC (3 spatial/3 temporal layers) at speed 7.
Change-Id: I5987eb7763845b680059128b538bb5188be0cca5
When allow_partition_search_skip is set the two pass code
can optionally skip the partition search in the rd loop if the image
appears static (based on selection of 0,0 motion).
Unfortunately 0,0 motion does not necessarily mean that there are
no meaningful changes or that motion or intra modes will not be selected
in the second pass.
Disabling "allow_partition_search_skip" may hurt the encode speed a little
for a small number of clips but can have a big impact on compression.
The most notable example of this in our test sets is "bridge_close_cif"
where this change gives a gains of 18%, 12% and 16% in opsnr, ssim and
psnr-hvs.
Change-Id: I765e288b5c0cd82bce00a148e7653a21e9203024
Enable partition copy on boundary and scale blocks along the boundary.
Rename copy_partition_svc to scale_partition_svc.
Do not copy if the block crosses the boundary.
Change-Id: I37a04d48f11b15c4ea67facd7631193ec2f62150
Removal of parameters to and code in calc_frame_boost() that is no
longer required.
No change to results from previous patch.
Change-Id: Ic92da35613fdc247d22fddf24d09679fc5329017
The decay accumulator clause covers similar ground to the
new clause that tests the accumulated second reference error
so it has been removed to reduce complexity.
Change-Id: I4ec1cce32d72bd4ee463ad7def2831a68447d525
Add a clause to the breakout test for alt ref groups that
examines the size of the accumulated second reference
frame error compared to the cost of intra coding.
This clause causes a reduction in the average group length for many
clips. Alongside the change to the group length the minimum
boost is increased.
On balance the results are positive for psnr and psnr-hvs
but is negative for ssim/fast ssim for the smaller image formats.
Strong gains on some harder clips (eg ducks take off (midres) ~20%,
husky (lowres) 6-17%. Most of the negative cases are lower motion
clips. Subsequent patch hopefully will help with those.
Change-Id: Ic1f5dbb9153d5089e58b1540470e799f91a65dc4
Fix/cleaup the conditioning for usage of the reuse-lowres
partition feature.
Replace the non-reference condition with the top temporal
layer, and put this condition in the speed feature.
This prevents doing update_partition_svc() on every
VGA frame, instead it will now only do update for VGA in
the top temporal layer frames.
Also this makes it easier to test/enable this feature
for lower layer temporal frames.
Change-Id: Ia897afbc6fe5c84c5693e310bcaa6a87ce017be5
For new VP9 only content type adjust the rate distortion and ARF
filter based on the relative spatial variance of the source and
reconstruction.
In regards to the RD loop the method favors modes where the
reconstruction variance is similar to the source variance. However it
is currently only applied to regions where the source variance is quite
low.
For very low variance blocks it applies a further bias against intra
coding and large prediction block sizes (the later in particular limit
the usefulness of the loop filter).
The final part of this change is to lower the strength of the ARF
filter for blocks where the source has very low spatial variance, to
encourage some low amplitude texture or noise to pass through
the filter.
This change improves the retention of film grain and fine noise /
texture in spatially flat regions, but as expected causes a significant
drop in PSNR on many clips. This is to be expected because similar
but misaligned noise or texture will give a lower PSNR than a flat
noise free reconstruction. However, it is worth noting that most clips
show a strong gain in FAST SSIM.
The features are enabled on the vpxenc command line by setting
--tune-content=film.
VPX_ENCODER_ABI_VERSION bumped for this change and cvbr.
Change-Id: I26a4e4edfa3dc5cacead82fa701fe7a9118ccd0a
Removed three parameters that are no longer needed in calls
to calc_arf_boost() and associated minor changes.
No impact on encode results.
Change-Id: Ieaf31d0d2e1990b99cf69647170145a1bbfbb9fb
For choose_partitioning (speed >= 6): avoid computation
of minmax variance for non-reference frames in SVC.
Existing condition only avoided this for speed >= 8.
Combine that existing logic with non-reference condition.
Small speedup (~0.5-1%) for 3 layer SVC,
neutral change on avgPSNR/SSIM metrics.
Change-Id: I3e9f3a1af0647b15e475cf170d9402908d672ee5
Release frame buffers for non-ref when the decoder is destroyed.
Enable the non ref test.
BUG=b/68819248
Change-Id: Id87ef3b0a62318f9812e927cd957c05c859047fa
For SVC with 3 spatial layers:
Add feature to copy/upscale partition from middle spatial layer
to the upper/highest resolution, when superblock sad is not high.
Enabled for speed >= 7 and only for non-reference frames.
Speedup ~3-4%, small loss in avgPNSR/SSIM of ~1%.
Change-Id: I7f0a2716c0fde28bade0f86159d11b7e31d6ab8d
For a chosen interval "i" the existing arf boost calculation examined frames
+/- (i-1) frames from the current location in the second pass.
This change checks to make sure that the forward search does not extend
beyond the next key frame in the event that the distance to the next key
frame is < (i - 1).
Small metrics gains on all our test sets but these are localized to a few clips
(e.g. midres set psnr-hvs sintel -2.59% but overall average was only -0.185%)
Change-Id: I26fc9ce582b6d58fa1113a238395e12ad3123cf6
Added command line control of Corpus VBR.
The new corpus vbr mode is a variant of standard
VBR (end-usage=0) where the complexity distribution
mid point is passed in rather than calculated for a specific
clip or chunk.
The new variant is enabled by setting a new command line
parameter --corpus-complexity to a zero value. Omitting
this parameter or setting it to 0 will cause the codec to use
standard vbr mode.
The correct value for a given corpus needs to be derived
experimentally using a training set such that the average
rate for the corpus is close to the target value.
For example our using our low res test set with upper and lower
vbr limits of 50%-150% and a corpus complexity value of 650
gives a similar average data rate across the set to using standard
vbr. However, with the corpus mode easier clips will be allocated
fewer bits and harder clips more bits rather than having the same
rate target for all.
Change-Id: I03f0fc8c6fb0ee32dc03720fea6a3f1949118589
