This commit changed to enable the usage 8x8 transform for all frame
type, all resolution and all quantizer range. This has an overall
benefit .2% to .3% in term of compression, but more importantly,
the difficult clips benefits much more, up to 2% to 3% on clips
like football, harbour and so on.
We observed some weird humps on very high end on a couple of youtube
clips, but have determined the underly cause was the aggressive zbin
having an effect of lowering rate with lower quality, which have
an impact on slide show clips around 60DB.
The commit does not change the association between prediction mode
and transform size.
Deb Mukherjee [Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:32:20 +0000 (14:32 -0700)]
Turning off interpolation filter selection
Turning off the interpolation filter selection based on edge
proportion. This heuristics has not been working as well as
expected and I have started a more rigorous investigation into
this. We can turn this off for now since it is unnecessarily
slowing things down.
This commit tries to address an issue related to the oddity shown on
HD _mobcal clip, where some rather ugly blocks shown in the second
frame at low-mid bit rates if the third frame is not made a key frame
by he encoder. The fixes include: 1) made calls to sad_16x16 to be
consistent with function prototype. 2) remove the error bias to intra
and golden in mbgraph search. 3) changed the error accumulation on
inter_segment encoding to avoid potential out-of-range. 1) has no
effect on encoding results.
Encoding test show that the overall effect of the commit helps about
.2%(HD) to .3%(cif)
The commit removed a limit on key frame detection, which caused a big
drop in all metric measurements for standard HD clip such as _mobcal.
This single change helps two standard HD clips by a huge amount, which
help the overall std-hd set by 2.4% (glb psnr), 0.9% (avg_psnr), 2.1%
(vpxssim).
In the result page:
http://pafr9.prod.google.com:26163/?/cns/rc-d/home/on2-prod/sunkaras/borg-test/yaowu
2012_04_02_1649_yaowu_bugfix_std-hd
2012_04_03_1452_yaowu_hump_std-hd
represent the encoding test results and std-hd set prior and after this
commit respectively.
This commit has made macro_block_yrd_8x8 and macro_block_yrd_8x8 to
take same parameters. It also removed a few unnecessary shifts that
has the potential to create out-of-range distortion values.
Paul Wilkins [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:01:34 +0000 (13:01 +0100)]
T8x8 zbin and rate control changes.
Some adjustments to zbin for t8x8.
Changes to rules for sizing forced key frames.
Some extra stats output in tmp.stt.
Approximate gain on YT-hd set 0.5%
There are still issues in sizing key frames and gf/arf frames
when the image is largely static. These in part relate to
problems with cost estimates in the recode loop.
Adrian Grange [Fri, 6 Apr 2012 23:38:34 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
Superblock encoding order
This is the first patch to add superblock (32x32) coding
order capabilities. It does not yet do any mode selection
at the SB level, that will follow in a further patch.
This patch encodes rows of SBs rather than
MBs, each SB contains 2x2 MBs.
Two intra prediction modes have been disabled since they
require reconstructed data for the above-right MB which
may not have been encoded yet (e.g. for the bottom right
MB in each SB).
Results on the one test clip I have tried (720p GIPS clip)
suggest that it is somewhere around 0.2dB worse than the
baseline version, so there may be bugs.
It has been tested with no experiments enabled and with
the following 3 experiments enabled:
--enable-enhanced_interp
--enable-high_precision_mv
--enable-sixteenth_subpel_uv
in each case the decode buffer matches the recon buffer
(using "cmp" to compare the dumped/decoded frames).
Note: Testing these experiments individually created
errors.
Some problems were found with other experiments but it
is unclear what state these experiments are in:
--enable-comp_intra_pred
--enable-newentropy
--enable-uvintra
This code has not been extensively tested yet, so there
is every likelihood that further bugs remain. I also
intend to do some code cleanup & refactoring in tandem
with the next patch that adds the 32x32 modes.
Deb Mukherjee [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:19:45 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
Bug fix in probability update savings computation
Found this bug while tracking down some anomalies in my experiments.
Since vp8_cost_one and vp8_cost_zero return unsigned int, the
bit shift by 8 will be incorrect if the value is negative.
I am cautiously optimistic that this fix will make the prob
updates more correct and somewhat improve results across the board.
But the update probabilities will need to be retuned I think.
Patch 2: Adding more of the same fixes using a macro.
Yaowu Xu [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:03:27 +0000 (11:03 -0700)]
enable 8x8 transform for MBs in intra frames
When ac_yquant>171, a key frame is enabled to use 8x8 transform. In
such case, MBs with DC_PRED or TM_PRED are selected to use T8x8. This
change helped the full STD-HD set by ~.1% or so, which is reasonable
considering how often key frame occurs in these encodings.
Paul Wilkins [Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:22:33 +0000 (18:22 +0000)]
Only support improved quant
Deprecate fast quant and strict_quant code.
Small effect on quality as fast was used in first pass but the
effect is basically neutral across the derf set.
The rationale here is to reduce the number of code paths for
now to make experimentation easier. Optimized and fast code
options can be re-introduced later along with other encode
speed options.
Deb Mukherjee [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:53:05 +0000 (07:53 -0700)]
Making subpel filters switchable at frame level
Various refactoring to make the subpel motion compensation
filters switchable by a frame level field.
Two types of 8-tap filters are supported in addition to the existing
bilinar and sixtap filters. One is the default 8-tap and the
other has a sharper cut-off for use with frames with substantial
edge content.
Patch 2: Added a preliminary strategy for filter selection based on
edginess detecton. Also includes some filter changes.
Deb Mukherjee [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:02:04 +0000 (11:02 -0700)]
Adding contextual coding of mb_skip_coeff flag.
Using contextual coding of the mkb_skip_coeff flag using the
values of this flag from the left and above. There is a small
improvement of about 0.15% on Derf:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/mbskipcontext.html
Refactored to use pred_common.c by adding a new context type.
Results on HD set (about 0.66% improvement):
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/mbskipcontext_hd.html
Incliding missing refactoring to use the pred_common utilities.
Yaowu Xu [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:26:53 +0000 (10:26 -0700)]
added clamp for 2nd motion vector
The commit added a clamp to the 2nd motion vector used in compound
prediction to insure mv within UMV borders. The clamp is similar to
that of the first motion vector except that No SPLITMV is ever used
for the 2nd motion vector.
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:25:50 +0000 (12:25 -0800)]
Added encode/decode recon buffer match test to vpxenc
The commit added a new command line option --test-decode to vpxenc.
The option enables encoder to decode compressed frames and test recon
buffers from the decode against those from encode for mismatch.
There are a few limitations on this option currently, one of them
being the match test is not done on a number of lagged frames at
the end of an encoding.
Yaowu Xu [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:29:39 +0000 (17:29 -0700)]
fixed a bug of context overwritten by key frame recoding
The recoding loop save and restore frame coding context for recodes.
However in recoding of key frames, some of the coding context saved
was stale from last encoded inter frame. The save/restore sometimes
overwrites the re-inintialized coding context with saved context
from last frame, resulting in encoder/decoder mismatch
Yaowu Xu [Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:51:54 +0000 (14:51 -0700)]
fixed .mk files to reflect add/remove of a header file
In a previous commit, the duplicate of headerfile defaultcoefcounts.h
was identified. This commit updates the .mk file to ensure configure
and make works properly for all platforms.
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:05:26 +0000 (09:05 -0800)]
Changed MAX_PSNR to be consistent with internal stats
The maximum psnr has a marginal impact on the overall output in high
quality encodings, the change will make sure the psnr output to be
consistent with encoder internal stats.
Jim Bankoski [Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:31:51 +0000 (09:31 -0800)]
Imported a change from stable branch
https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/#change,17319 fixes cost estimating
to take skip_eob into account. No quality difference seen on derf set
tests, but about .4% gain on STD_HD set.
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:10:18 +0000 (18:10 -0800)]
Changed how UV r/d estimates are done for Intra Modes
The commit changed to compute UV intra RD estimates for 4x4 and 8x8
separately to be used in mode decision for MB modes associated with
the appropriate transform size respectively. Now finally after many
other changes related 8x8 quantizer zbin boost and zbin_mode_boost,
this change overall helps the HD(with 8x8) by around ~.13%.
(avg .13% glb .13% ssim .17%)
The commit also has a few changes for eliminating compiler warnings.
Yaowu Xu [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:19:38 +0000 (14:19 -0800)]
Correct zbinboost lookup for 8x8 quantizer
The commit fixed a problem where 8x8 regular quantizer was using the
4x4 zbinboost lookup table that only has 16 entries at each Q. The
commit assigned a uniform zbin boost value for all cases that there
are more than 16 consective zeros. The change only affects MBs using
8x8 transform. The fix has a slightly positive impact on quality.
Deb Mukherjee [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:22:38 +0000 (10:22 -0800)]
Initial refactoring of high_precision mv code.
This is the first patch for refactoring of the code related to
high-precision mv, so that 1/4 and 1/8 pel motion vectors can
co-exist in the same bit-stream by use of a frame level flag.
The current patch works fine for only use of 1/4th and
only use of 1/8th pel mv, but there are some issues with the
mode switching in between. Subsequent patches on this change Id
will fix the remaining issues.
Patch 2: Adds fixes to make sure that multiple mv precisions can
co-exist in the bit-stream. Frame level switching has been tested
to work correctly.
Results on derf after ssse3 bugfix, compared to everything
enabled but the 8-tap, 1/8-subpel and 1/16-subpel uv. Overall the
gains are about 3% now. Hopefully there are no more bugs lingering.
Apparently the sse3 bug affected the quartel subpel results more than
the eighth pel ones (which is understandabale because one bad predictor
due to the bug, matters less if there are a lot more subpel options
available as in the 1/8 subpel case).
The results in the 4th column correspond to the current settings.
The first two columns correspond to two settings of adaptive switching
of the 1/4 or 1/8 subpel mode based on initial Q estimate. These
do not work as good as just using 1/8 all the time yet.
Yaowu Xu [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:23:15 +0000 (18:23 -0800)]
fixed a wrong intialization value
The "update" variable was used as a flag in coef_prob update dry run
that tests if a frame should encodes update at all. The wrong init
value forced the update happening always. fixing this has a minor
improvement in low bit rate situation when 8x8 transform is allowed.
Paul Wilkins [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:13:57 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
Removal of temporal re sampling code.
For now the interface elements have been left in place
to make sure existing parameter files work but parameters
relating to drop frame wont do anything.
Deb Mukherjee [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:08:00 +0000 (09:08 -0800)]
Changing default 8-tap filter to Langrangian interpolator.
The Lagrangian interpolation filter is maximally flat in the
passband. There is non-trivial improvement with the hd set, while
for derf the results are virtually unchanged.
See:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn.html (derf)
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn_hd.html (HD)
Patch 2: Updated the results for derf in the html above to use the
new baseline. There is still about 4% improvement. Will update the
hd baseline later (since it takes 9 hours to run on my machine)
Patch 3: By mistake the default filter was left at 60 - should be 0
to use the new interpolation filter.
Deb Mukherjee [Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:47:18 +0000 (11:47 -0800)]
Clean ups and minor changes in high precision mv with 8-tap interpolation
* Removes EDGE_PIXEL_FILTER for external sanpshot
* changes the default 8-tap filter based on high precision results
in http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn.html
* changes the default prob tables for high-precision mv encoding to
favor zeros in the last bit (i.e. quarter pel). This is only important
for short clips.
Deb Mukherjee [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:29:54 +0000 (09:29 -0800)]
Supporting high precision 1/8-pel motion vectors
This is the initial patch for supporting 1/8th pel
motion. Currently if we configure with enable-high-precision-mv,
all motion vectors would default to 1/8 pel. Encode and
decode syncs fine with the current code. In the next phase
the code will be refactored so that we can choose the 1/8
pel mode adaptively at a frame/segment/mb level.
Derf results:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hpmv.html
(about 0.83% better than 8-tap interpoaltion)
Patch 3: Rebased. Also adding 1/16th pel interpolation for U and V
Patch 4: HD results.
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd_hpmv.html
Seems impressive (unless I am doing something wrong).
Patch 5: Added mmx/sse for bilateral filtering, as well as enforced
use of c-versions of subpel filters with 8-taps and 1/16th pel;
Also redesigned the 8-tap filters to reduce the cut-off in order to
introduce a denoising effect. There is a new configure option
sixteenth-subpel-uv which will use 1/16 th pel interpolation for
uv, if the motion vectors have 1/8 pel accuracy.
With the fixes the results are promising on the derf set. The enhanced
interpolation option with 8-taps alone gives 3% improvement over thei
derf set:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn.html
Results on high precision mv and on the hd set are to follow.
Patch 6: Adding a missing condition for CONFIG_SIXTEENTH_SUBPEL_UV in
vp8/common/x86/x86_systemdependent.c
Yaowu Xu [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:52:30 +0000 (15:52 -0800)]
Fixed skippable evaluation in mode decision
Yunqing fixed an oddity in UVIntra skippable evaluation for stable
branch, which brought up the fact that the evaluation is broken.
The issue was that for MBs with 2nd order block, the eob for 1st
order blocks is set at 1. The previous evaluation did not take that
into account. This commit intend to fix the problem. The commit also
absorbed Yunqing's fix for UVIntra skippable evalution.
Test on hd showed some good gains in combination with LPF bias fix:
http://www.corp.google.com/~yaowu/no_crawl/LPFBias_FixSkip.html
(avg psnr: .34%, glb psnr: .32%, ssim: .22%)
Yaowu Xu [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:03:34 +0000 (12:03 -0800)]
Reduced bias in picking loop filter level
The bias in picklpf intended to bias toward less greedy in getting
best frame level psnr while maximize overall quality for a clip.
This commit reduced the bias for frames using 8x8 transform to
achieve better compression overall.
The change improve compression by ~.15% consistently on most of the
HD clips tested.
Yaowu Xu [Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:30:31 +0000 (15:30 -0800)]
Reworked context conversion between 8x8 and 4x4
The commit rationized and simplified the entropy context conversion
betwen MB using 8x8 transform and MB using 4x4 transform. The old version
had a number of weirdness in how 4x4 transform MB's context is used for
8x8 blocks other than the first 8x8 within a MB.
Test showed the change has a gain ~.1% for avg psnr, glb psnr and ssim on
the limited HD set.
Yaowu Xu [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:35:48 +0000 (17:35 -0800)]
optmized rounding for transforms
the changes are still temporary, the final transforms, especially
inverse ones should take in account both accuracy, complexity, and
sign-bias, which should be decided at a later time.
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:01:35 +0000 (15:01 -0800)]
re-scaled 2nd order haar transform
During the work of extend_qrange, we have rolled a factor of 2 from
quantization/dequatnization into 2nd order walsh-hadamard transform.
This commit does the same for the 2nd order haar transform. so they
can share the same quantizaiton process as the 2nd order WHT.
Yaowu Xu [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:40:26 +0000 (07:40 -0800)]
moved scaling from dequantization to inverse transform for T8x8
Previously, the scaling related to extended quantize range happens in
dequantization stage, which implies the coefficients form forward
transform are in different scale(4x) from dequantization coefficients
This worked fine when there was not distortion computation done based
on 8x8 transform, but it completely wracked the distortion estimation
based on transform coefficients and dequantized transform coefficients
introduced in commit f64725a00 for macroblocks using 8x8 transform.
This commit fixed the issue by moving the scaling into the stage of
inverse 8x8 transform.
TODO: Test&Verify the transform/quantization pipeline accuracy.
Results with the new filter coefficients compared with the previous
versions are here:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp.html (derf)
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd.html (HD)
Overall, the derf set improves by 0.94% with 8-tap filters while
the HD set improves by 0.58%.
Ronald S. Bultje [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:38:04 +0000 (16:38 -0800)]
Remove dual prediction frame re-encoding loop.
I'm basically not convinced that the concept works at all, let alone
that this is the right place to do it. I think if we want something
like this at all, I should integrate it with the main encoding loop
and re-encode checks in onyx_if.c, and show that it has a significant
benefit (which right now, it doesn't; removing this re-encode check
actually increases all metrics by ~0.15%).
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:52:18 +0000 (17:52 -0800)]
moved segment based LPF level selection under CONFIG_FEATUREUPDATES
This commit moved segment based loop filter level selection into
the experiment of CONFIG_FEATUREUPDATES. As previous commit noted,
the segment based loop filter selection helps the compression by
~0.1% on cif set, the ongoing experiment CONFIG_FEATUREUPDATES
made encoding updates of the segment based LPF level more efficient,
hence, another .04% gain on cif set. The commit also fixed an issue
previously where encoder/decoder may use different loop filter level
for one of the segments.
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