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
to MB_MODE_INFO_EXT. This saves 36 bytes per 8x8 area for
both the decoder and encoder. (encoder has two MODE_INFO
buffers)
Change-Id: If006abb2224acaf326df3c2be09e77e967662107
This patch modified struct VP9_COMP. Created a struct ThreadData
to include data that need to be copied for each thread. In
multiple thread case, one thread processes one tile. all threads
share one copy of VP9_COMP,
(refer to VP9_COMP *cpi in the code)
but each thread has its own copy of ThreadData,
(refer to ThreadData *td in the code).
Therefore, within the scope of encode_tiles(), both cpi and td
need to be passed as function parameters.
In single thread case, the FRAME_COUNTS pointer in ThreadData
points to "counts" in VP9_COMMON.
Change-Id: Ib37908b2d8e2c0f4f9c18f38017df5ce60e8b13e
This commit removes the cyclic aq mode dependency on
in_static_area and reworks the corresponding cut-off thresholds.
It improves the compression performance of speed -5 by 1.47% in
PSNR and 2.07% in SSIM, and the compression performance of speed
-6 by 3.10% in PSNR and 5.25% in SSIM. Speed wise, about 1% faster
in both settings at high bit-rates.
Change-Id: I1ffc775afdc047964448d9dff5751491ba4ff4a9
This commit re-designs the recursive partition search scheme in
rtc speed -5. It first checks if the current block is under cyclic
refresh mode. If so, apply recursive partition search. Otherwise,
perform sub-sampled pixel based partition selection. When the
pre-selection finds the partition size should be 32x32 or above,
use the partition size directly. Otherwise, apply partition search
at nearby levels around the preset partition size.
It is enabled in speed -5. The compression performance of rtc
speed -5 is improved by 9.4%. Speed wise, the run-time goes slower
from 1% to 10%.
nik_720p, 1000 kbps
33220 b/f, 38.977 dB, 10109 ms -> 33200 b/f, 39.119 dB, 10210 ms
vidyo1_720p, 1000 kbps
16536 b/f, 40.495 dB, 10119 ms -> 16536 b/f, 40.827 dB, 11287 ms
Change-Id: I65adba352e3adc03bae50854ddaea1b421653c6c
Add comments on the use case of these definitions. Further reduce
the scope of header file in vp9_context_tree.h.
Change-Id: Ic4a7638e838d0ac441b64abfc56e57354c059d75
Adds various high bitdepth transform functions and tests.
Much of the changes are related to using typedefs tran_low_t
and tran_high_t for the final transform cofficients and intermediate
stages of the transform computation respectively rather than fixed
types int16_t/int. When vp9_highbitdepth configure flag is off,
these map tp int16_t/int32_t, but when the flag is on, they map
to int32_t/int64_t to make space for needed extra precision.
Change-Id: I3c56de79e15b904d6f655b62ffae170729befdd8
This commit allows the encoder to store outcomes of single reference
frame modes and compares them to decide if the inter prediction
filter, forward transform, and quantization can be skipped.
The compression performance of speed 3 is down
derf -0.364%
stdhd -0.198%
For test sequences, the speed 3 runtime is reduced
highway CIF 100 kbps, 51976 ms -> 45033 ms, 13% speed-up
stockholm 720p 1000 kbps, 71826 ms -> 67838 ms, 5.5% speed-up
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps, 154924 ms -> 150702 ms, 2.6% speed-up
Change-Id: I5aa26f918d2b4b5197a2c0afa2779319f1c88e44
This commit extends the sse and forward transform computation flag
to support the case 64x64 blocks where there are 4 32x32 2D-DCT
blocks.
Change-Id: I86a3e805dfaa0f3abd812f590520c71aa0e40473
In the partition search, the encoder checks all possible
partitionings in the superblock's partition search tree.
This patch proposed a set of criteria for partition search
early termination, which effectively decided whether or
not to terminate the search in current branch based on the
"skippable" result of the quantized transform coefficients.
The "skippable" information was gathered during the
partition mode search, and no overhead calculations were
introduced.
This patch gives significant encoding speed gains without
sacrificing the quality.
Borg test results:
1. At speed 1,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.074%, ssim: +0.093%;
derf set: psnr: -0.024%, ssim: +0.011%;
2. At speed 2,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.033%, ssim: +0.100%;
derf set: psnr: -0.062%, ssim: +0.003%;
3. At speed 3,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.060%, ssim: +0.190%;
derf set: psnr: -0.064%, ssim: -0.002%;
4. At speed 4,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.070%, ssim: +0.143%;
derf set: psnr: -0.104%, ssim: +0.039%;
The speedup ranges from several percent to 60+%.
speed1 speed2 speed3 speed4
(1080p, 100f):
old_town_cross: 48.2% 23.9% 20.8% 16.5%
park_joy: 11.4% 17.8% 29.4% 18.2%
pedestrian_area: 10.7% 4.0% 4.2% 2.4%
(720p, 200f):
mobcal: 68.1% 36.3% 34.4% 17.7%
parkrun: 15.8% 24.2% 37.1% 16.8%
shields: 45.1% 32.8% 30.1% 9.6%
(cif, 300f)
bus: 3.7% 10.4% 14.0% 7.9%
deadline: 13.6% 14.8% 12.6% 10.9%
mobile: 5.3% 11.5% 14.7% 10.7%
Change-Id: I246c38fb952ad762ce5e365711235b605f470a66
In vp8, statistics are collected about the different modes as they are searched.
This process is more complicated due to the variable block size. Fields were
added to the PICM_MODE_CONTEXT struct to hold this information for each point in
the search. The information is then taken from the appropriate part of the tree
during denoising.
Change-Id: I89261ab77ad637821287ae157dfdf694702b8e77
This commit enables a fast path computational flow for forward
transformation. It checks the sse and variance of prediction
residuals and decides if the quantized coefficients are all
zero, dc only, or more. It then selects the corresponding coding
path in the forward transformation and quantization stage.
It is currently enabled in rtc coding mode. Will do it for rd
coding mode next.
In speed -6, the runtime for pedestrian_area 1080p at 1000 kbps
goes down from 14234 ms to 13704 ms, i.e., about 4% speed-up.
Overall coding performance for rtc set is changed by -0.18%.
Change-Id: I0452da1786d59bc8bcbe0a35fdae9f623d1d44e1
This patch sets up a quad_tree structure (pc_tree) for holding all of
pick_mode_context data we use at any square block size during encoding
or picking modes. That includes contexts for 2 horizontal and 2 vertical
splits, one none, and pointers to 4 sub pc_tree nodes corresponding
to split. It also includes a pointer to the current chosen partitioning.
This replaces code that held an index for every level in the pick
modes array including: sb_index, mb_index,
b_index, ab_index.
These were used as stateful indexes that pointed to the current pick mode
contexts you had at each level stored in the following arrays
array ab4x4_context[][][],
sb8x4_context[][][], sb4x8_context[][][], sb8x8_context[][][],
sb8x16_context[][][], sb16x8_context[][][], mb_context[][], sb32x16[][],
sb16x32[], sb32_context[], sb32x64_context[], sb64x32_context[],
sb64_context
and the partitioning that had been stored in the following:
b_partitioning, mb_partitioning, sb_partitioning, and sb64_partitioning.
Prior to this patch before doing an encode you had to set the appropriate
index for your block size ( switch statement), update it ( up to 3
lookups for the index array value) and then make your call into a recursive
function at which point you'd have to call get_context which then
had to do a switch statement based on the blocksize, and then up to 3
lookups based upon the block size to find the context to use.
With the new code the context for the block size is passed around directly
avoiding the extraneous switch statements and multi dimensional array
look ups that were listed above. At any level in the search all of the
contexts are local to the pc_tree you are working on (in?).
In addition in most places code that used to call sub functions and
then check if the block size was 4x4 and index was > 0 and return
now don't preferring instead to call the right none function on the inside.
Change-Id: I06e39318269d9af2ce37961b3f95e181b57f5ed9
Marco
James Zern
Yunqing Wang
Scott LaVarnway
Jingning Han
Deb Mukherjee
Tim Kopp
Dmitry Kovalev
Jim Bankoski