This commit fixes an ioc issue that will happen when the cumulative
variables are not in effective use. The fix discards these
redundant additions.
Change-Id: Idbac5bfb989c0cedc5f8a323effce938519b2457
This removes an unnecessary restriction that causes
a problem (noticed by AWG) when the forced key frame
interval is set to a very small value, such as 10. In this case
we were being forced to code minimal length GF groups.
Change-Id: I76ef5861a09638ff51f61fea02359554184ada53
We encode a empty invisible frame in front of the base layer frame to
avoid using prev_mi. Since there's a restriction for reference frame
scaling factor, we have to make it smaller and smaller gradually until
its size is 16x16.
Change remerged.
Change-Id: I9efab38bba7da86e056fbe8f663e711c5df38449
This reverts commit 452dc21500.
This change has introduced a significant quality regression on content
with forced key frames. (e.g. the YT and yt-hd set). It is most
noticeable in static content where the kf bits dominate. Here, despite
key frames being apparently coded at the same Q, there is a drop in all
metrics of ~20% (e.g clXR and BFa0).
Change-Id: Iba14cc61778c0846fa0a59c33c55a9fc49512cb4
Compare the estimated rate and distortion to the thresholds scaled
according to the operating block size and determine if further
split partition search will be run. The compression performance of
speed -5 is changed by -0.074%. The encoding speed is 10% - 15%
faster.
vidyo1 720p
16545 b/f, 40.492 dB, 11475 ms -> 16535 b/f, 40.486 dB, 10100 ms
nik720p
16624 b/f, 36.310 dB, 10071 ms -> 16617 b/f, 36.313 dB, 8346 ms
Change-Id: Ic9197ab5761279ae55d2fb7813b2af0e0db497b8
Reduce the intra_cost_penalty for non-rd mode,
and some updates to VAR_BASED_PARTITION.
Visual tests show some improvement at Speed 6, for RTC clips.
Change-Id: If9090daf7aed14906a32d931a538ab544bbca606
This commit replaces the use of copy_partitioning with
choose_partitioning based on the sse of subsamped pixels, which
provides significantly better coding performance and runs at
similar speed, as compared to copy_partitioning. It improves rtc
speed 5 coding performance by 3%.
Change-Id: I52d3682a12dce0147f5e52383a594fc242ca3228
We encode a empty invisible frame in front of the base layer frame to
avoid using prev_mi. Since there's a restriction for reference frame
scaling factor, we have to make it smaller and smaller gradually until
its size is 16x16.
Change-Id: I60b680314e33a60b4093cafc296465ee18169c19
Move the point at which input frames are scaled
into the recode loop. This will allow us to change
the coded frame size dynamically in response
to previous attempts to encode the frame at a
higher resolution.
A following patch will implement a scheme for
resizing the frame in the recode loop.
Change-Id: I6a59c02d6ac1626512edad6de8b60063b79433e6
This commit makes a struct that contains rate value, distortion
value, and the rate-distortion cost. The goal is to provide a
better interface for rate-distortion related operation. It is
first used in rd_pick_partition and saves a few RDCOST calculations.
Change-Id: I1a6ab7b35282d3c80195af59b6810e577544691f
Add back clamp which ensures that the Q adaptation
is turned off when the over_shoot_pct and under_shoot_pct
parameters are set to 100.
Change-Id: Id0161b114d39a3029cd3eb28020caab0c3914922
Allow min and maxQ to creep when the undershoot
or overshoot exceeds thresholds controlled by the
command line under_shoot_pct and over_shoot_pct
values.
Default is 100%,100% which ~disables adaptation.
Derf results for example undershoot% / overshoot%:-
Head:- Mean abs (%rate error) = 14.4%
This check in:-
25%/25% - Mean abs (%rate error) = 6.7%
PSNR hit -1% SSIM -0.1%
5% / 5% - Mean abs (%rate error) = 2.2%
PSNR hit -3.3% SSIM - 1.1%
Most of the remaining error and most of the quality hit is
at extreme data rates. The adaptation code still has an
exception for material that is in effect static so that we
don't over adjust and over spend on YT slide show type
content.
(Rebase of If25a2449a415449c150acff23df713e9598d64c9
to resolve a auto-merge error)
Change-Id: Iec4e1613ef0d067454751d8220edb7058dfbd816
Allow min and maxQ to creep when the undershoot
or overshoot exceeds thresholds controlled by the
command line under_shoot_pct and over_shoot_pct
values.
Default is 100%,100% which ~disables adaptation.
Derf results for example undershoot% / overshoot%:-
Head:- Mean abs (%rate error) = 14.4%
This check in:-
25%/25% - Mean abs (%rate error) = 6.7%
PSNR hit -1% SSIM -0.1%
5% / 5% - Mean abs (%rate error) = 2.2%
PSNR hit -3.3% SSIM - 1.1%
Most of the remaining error and most of the quality hit is
at extreme data rates. The adaptation code still has an
exception for material that is in effect static so that we
don't over adjust and over spend on YT slide show type
content.
Change-Id: If25a2449a415449c150acff23df713e9598d64c9
- Some fixes to surface fit.
- Returns variance function as cost rather than sad in the
pattern search and diamond search functions. Only
vp9_pattern_search_sad function used in bigdia search
uses sad as integer 1-away costs.
- Deploys SUBPEL_TREE_PRUNED_MORE for speed 4+.
Results:
derf [Speed 3]: About +0.036% in coding efficiency without any
discernible speed loss.
derf [Speed 4]: About 2-3% faster at -0.199% loss in coding efficiency.
derf [Speed 5]: About 3-4% faster at -0.149% loss in coding efficiency.
Change-Id: I8462f94f6adb46966ca964f2bd0400977357fd63
In model_rd_for_sb function, the spatial domain SSE and variance
are checked to see if transform coefficients are quantized to 0.
Besides that, this patch adds another set of thresholds that are
much more strict. These thresholds are used to conduct a partition
block level check to measure if all its TX blocks are skippable
for YUV planes. If it is true, x->skip is set for this partition
block, and thus its mode search is terminated.
This speeds up the encoding at very low prediction error case,
such as screen sharing application. This patch covers what
rd_encode_breakout_test() does, so that function is removed.
Borg test at speed 3 shows:
For stdhd set, psnr: +0.008%, ssim: +0.014%;
For derf set, psnr: +0.018%, ssim: +0.025%.
No noticeable speed change.
Change-Id: I4e5f15cf10016a282a68e35175ff854b28195944
For input source with size that is not multiple of 8, the size is
rounded to 8 and saved in width or height, the original source sizes
are saved in crop_width and crop_height. This commit corrects the
computation of bottom and right extension amounts to use the orignal
sizes, hence crop_width and crop_height.
In addition, this commit also adds the missed initialization for
uv_crop_width and uv_crop_height.
This addresses issue #834
Change-Id: I084543ca7645a4964b88f7cf8ff668f517d3a39b
The concept:
There's too much noise in source pixels for variance and at low bitrate
the reconstructed looks nothing like the source so we have problems
getting good partitionings with either. This skirts the issue by using
a box blur scaled down version for variance calculations. To compare
against source_var_ moved keyframe to be rd based like source_var.
Change-Id: Ie3babdbfadae324b7b5a76bea192893af27f0624
Fixed an encoder crash. Set skip_txfm to 0 for cases that skip_txfm
isn't calculated. Put memcpy of skip_txfm at right place.
Change-Id: Ib3b6afc1b251a85b2a853c8138fb3393f48cfef6
The functions b_width_log2 and b_height_log2 only do direct
table fetch. This commit unifies such use cases by using the
table directly and removes these functions.
Change-Id: I3103fc6ba959c1182886a2799d21b8b77c8a7b6b
Add comments on the use case of these definitions. Further reduce
the scope of header file in vp9_context_tree.h.
Change-Id: Ic4a7638e838d0ac441b64abfc56e57354c059d75
This commit fixes a buffer pointer mis-use in store_coding_context.
The compression performance for stdhd set of speed 3 is improved by
0.097%. It fixes issue 869.
Change-Id: Idc59e22035eaf39f7133ca04174894374d647ff7
This SSE2 is based on VP8 denoiser's SSE2 code. In VP8, there are
only 16x16 blocks in denoiser, while in VP9, there are 13 different
block sizes.
By adding this SSE2 code, the improvement of encoder speed is around
20%(using C code vs using SSE2 code), vary for different clips.
The unit test for VP9 denoiser is to confirm that the SSE2 code is
bit-exact with the C code. The unit test covers all block size.
Change-Id: Ic8d8ac26db4ea40a5f146b5678a065af07eaaa3d
Adjustments to the GF interval choice and minimum boost.
Adjustment to the calculation of 2 pass worst q.
Compared to 09/29 head there is metrics hit on derf of
(-0.123%,-0.191%)
Compared to the September 29 head and a baseline on
September 18 baseline the accuracy of the VBR rate control
measured on the derf set is as follows:-
Mean error % / Mean abs(error %)
Sept 18 baseline (-7.0% / 14.76%)
Sept 29 head (-15.7%, 19.8%)
This check in (-1.5% / 14.4%)
The mean undershoot is reduced slightly but the
worst case overshoot on e.g. harbour/highway is
increased. This will be addressed in a later patch.
Change-Id: Iffd9b0ab7432a131c98fbaaa82d1e5b40be72b58
It is possible that the GOLDEN reference frame is not avaiable, in
which setting the predicted mv will be associated with a residual
value of INT_MAX. This commit checks this condition before
left shift and comparison with that of ALTREF frame, to avoid
overflow issue.
Change-Id: Ib98c3149dbdd016f2fe5beaafb13f67d469dd07c
This commit adds proper initialization of segment id for variance AQ
mode in non-rd coding path. It fixes the enc/dec mismatch issue of
rt=7 with --aq-mode=1, as reported in issue #816
Change-Id: I02fa41b96345bf2e66077d5ea553f85ba800f7bb
This commit enables the encoder to skip split partition search if
the bigger block size has all non-zero quantized coefficients in low
frequency area and the total rate cost is below a certain threshold.
It logarithmatically scales the rate threshold according to the
current block size. For speed 3, the compression performance loss:
derf -0.093%
stdhd -0.066%
Local experiments show 4% - 20% encoding speed-up for speed 3.
blue_sky_1080p, 1500 kbps
51051 b/f, 35.891 dB, 67236 ms ->
50554 b/f, 35.857 dB, 59270 ms (12% speed-up)
old_town_cross_720p, 1500 kbps
14431 b/f, 36.249 dB, 57687 ms ->
14108 b/f, 36.172 dB, 46586 ms (19% speed-up)
pedestrian_area_1080p, 1500 kbps
50812 b/f, 40.124 dB, 100439 ms ->
50755 b/f, 40.118 dB, 96549 ms (4% speed-up)
mobile_calendar_720p, 1000 kbps
10352 b/f, 35.055 dB, 51837 ms ->
10172 b/f, 35.003 dB, 44076 ms (15% speed-up)
Change-Id: I412e34db49060775b3b89ba1738522317c3239c8
Incorporates the WRAPLOW macro into the non-highbitdepth transforms
to aid hardware verification between a software C model and an
intended hardware implementation though the use of the configure
options: --enable-experimental --enable-emulate-hardware.
Note that to avoid further discrepancies between the sse/sse2
implementations of the transforms and the C implementation, when the
emulate hardware option is invoked, we also disable sse/sse2/etc.
Also incudes some minor cleanups/renaming etc.
Change-Id: Ib864d8493313927d429cce402982f1c8e45b3287
Miscellaneous bug-fixes for high bitdepth functionality.
With this patch, high bit-depth profiles become mostly functional,
except for an intermittent assert failure issue that is being
tracked.
Change-Id: I6a7fcbdcf1e5b09842e88535f8442d2e1230748c
This commit removes unused header file vp9_onyxc_int.h and repeatedly
included file vpx_ports/mem.h from vp9_block.h
Change-Id: I400b210bd1da48f1880bd50a8f4a6e2c690e15a1
Block transform skipping was implemented based on DCT's energy
conservation property. Modified the thresholds using zero bin
parameters. AC and DC coefficients were checked separately to
allow better identifying of skippable blocks.
Borg test at speed 3 showed:
stdhd set: psnr gain: 0.153%, ssim gain: 0.051%;
derf set: psnr gain: 0.023%, ssim gain: 0.036%
For most test clips, the encoding speedup is 1% - 2%.
parkrun(720p): 7.5% speedup, park_joy(1080p): 3.5% speedup.
Change-Id: If28eb81113a077414f5ca7b021c14f9069b373bb
For regular inter frames, if the distance from GOLDEN_FRAME is larger
than 2 and if the predicted motion vector of LAST_FRAME gives lower
sse than that of GOLDEN_FRAME, skip the GOLDE_FRAME mode checking in
the rate-distortion optimization. It provides about 5% speed-up at
expense of -0.137% and -0.230% performance down for speed 3. Local
experiment results:
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps
66712 b/f, 40.908 dB, 113688 ms ->
66768 b/f, 40.911 dB, 108752 ms
blue_sky 1080p 2000 kbps
51054 b/f, 35.894 dB, 70406 ms ->
51051 b/f, 35.891 dB, 67236 ms
old_town_cross 720p 1500 kbps
14412 b/f, 36.252 dB, 60690 ms ->
14431 b/f, 36.249 dB, 57346 ms
Change-Id: Idfcafe7f63da7a4896602fc60bd7093f0f0d82ca
When calculating delta in VP8 denoiser, since the block size is fixed to 16x16,
the divisor is 256, which is the number of the pixel.
But in VP9, the block size varies, the divisor should correspond to the block
size.
Change-Id: Ibdc1e5d23ba8c788b0d0dc6d406bcdfc34c1b142
One is a more aggressive version of the pruned subpel tree
search where only a single halfpel candidate is searched.
The search candidate is based on a surface fit result.
The other is a method to obtain the subpel position at one
shot based on the same surface fit.
The methods have not been deployed in any speed setting yet.
Change-Id: I34fef3f2e34f11396c9d1ba97f4be8c4ffca62d3
This commit enables the encoder to skip checking ALTREF inter modes
in ARF coding, if the predicted motion vectors suggest that the
GOLDEN_FRAME provides higher prediction accuracy than ALTREF_FRAME.
It improves the speed 3 encoding speed by about 5%, at the expense
of compression performance loss -0.041% and -0.225% for derf and
stdhd, respectively.
pedestrian_area 1080p 2000 kbps
66705 b/f, 40.909 dB, 118738 ms ->
66732 b/f, 40.908 dB, 113688 ms
old_town_cross 720p 1500 kbps
14427 b/f, 36.256 dB, 62746 ms ->
14412 b/f, 36.252 dB, 60690 ms
blue_sky 1080p 1500 kbps
51026 b/f, 35.897 dB, 73310 ms ->
50921 b/f, 35.893 dB, 70406 ms
bus CIF 1000 kbps
21301 b/f, 34.841 dB, 7326 ms ->
21248 b/f, 34.837 dB, 7196 ms
Change-Id: I76cf88b4d655e1ee3c0cb03c8a5745493040e8d2
This patch re-enabled the feature in Pengchong's patch
(commit 1286126073). Originally, it
was turned on while use_lastframe_partitioning > 0(not used anymore).
Now it was added as a feature, and turned on while speed >= 2.
As described in the original patch, this feature helps speed up the
slideshows in YouTube.
Change-Id: I1b0f18d65da1ee1c8d1e117dabba910c5207c471
Simplified the code and removed some code that was not used anymore.
This patch didn't change encoding result.
Change-Id: I7e54a74c8f35a6726dfc8a1c55b337448b7ea124
The rd_thresholds are adaptively changed based on best mode tested.
It was only changed for the same block size, this commit makes the
adaptation for similar block sizes too. The commit also made minor
adjustment and code cleanups.
The impact on encoding time for _ped:
118089 ms -> 111927 ms
The impact on compression:
derf: -0.339%
stdhd: -0.303%
Change-Id: I8817fed1102350497f2ec631849e43f753878e5d
Adds code to return an integer cost list for NSTEP search. Then
uses it for pruned subpel search in speed 3.
derf: -0.06%
Speed on mobcal 720p increaes from 10.28 fps to 10.65 fps.
[Subject to further testing].
Change-Id: Ib591382d25b2c11bcaba9d3a27a93a9d1ab27a96
mi_grid_* are arrays of pointer to pointer. They save the pointers that point
to the MIs in cm->mi. But they are unnecessary and complicated. The original
goal was to remove MODE_INFO_t copy. But with an extra MODE_INFO_t pointer
inside MODE_INFO_t, same goal could be achieved.
This commit totally removes the mi_grid_* structures. But there are still
many dummy MODE_INFO_t inside cm->mi which are a waste of memory. Next commit
will do on-demand MODE_INFO_t allocation in order to save these memories.
Change-Id: I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6
vpx_svc_parameters_t contains id, resolution and min/max qp for each spatial layer.
In this change we will use extra config to send min/max qp and scaling factors, then calculate layer resolution inside encoder.
Change-Id: Ib673303266605fe803c3b067284aae5f7a25514a
Substantial restructuring of the way we estimate
the rate of decay in prediction quality and determine
the arf interval and amount of boost used.
Also other changes to support moving to a lower first pass
Q which exposes some new features and allows us to better
distinguish genuinely static blocks from low motion or noisy
blocks.
Net gains now visible on all the test sets with std-hd PSNR up
1.87%. There are still some bad outlier cases but most of these
are low motion or slide show type content where the metrics
are already high at any given rate. The best + case is up by
more than 10%.
Change-Id: I18e25170053bdf3188f493ff8062f48a74515815
The ARF frame should always be the same size as the
native resolution of the input frames.
It will be scaled to the required resolution at
encode time.
Change-Id: I0afe858129aa6ef65b1648f43476331715346896
This commit makes the encoder to use non-zero mode threshold for
NEARESTMV modes. The runtime for test clips of speed 3 is reduced
by about 1%.
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps, 143239 ms -> 141989 ms
bus CIF 1000 kbps, 7835 ms -> 7749 ms
The compression performance change is about -0.02% for both derf
and stdhd.
Change-Id: Ib71808922c41ae2997100cb7c561f68dcebfa08e
