Yaowu Xu [Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:55:49 +0000 (13:55 -0700)]
A bit of temporary relief on encoder slowness
The commit replaces run-time initialization of cosine constants with
static constant values, which provides ~30% relief on slow speed. The
real solution, however will be to implement integer versions of those
functions that current use float/double.
Yaowu Xu [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 19:31:38 +0000 (12:31 -0700)]
enable interleaved decoding of mode and mv
Previouly, the decoding of mode and motion vector are done a per frame
basis followed by residue decoding and reconstuction. The commit added
the option to allow decoder to interleave the decoding of mode and mvs
with the residue decoding on a per MB basis.
Daniel Kang [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 00:03:14 +0000 (17:03 -0700)]
16x16 DCT blocks.
Set on all 16x16 intra/inter modes
Features:
- Butterfly fDCT/iDCT
- Loop filter does not filter internal edges with 16x16
- Optimize coefficient function
- Update coefficient probability function
- RD
- Entropy stats
- 16x16 is a config option
Jingning Han [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:18:25 +0000 (10:18 -0700)]
Use 8x8 DCT transform for I8X8 prediction mode
Apply 2D-DCT transform of dimension 8x8 to encode prediction
residuals of I8X8 mode.
Brought back block type 3 probability context model for 8x8 tokens,
which is used for the coefficients of Y blocks in I8x8 modes. The
coefficient costs estimate of I8X8 mode in rate-distortion is also
changed appropriately.
Performance results:
derf: 0.246
yt: 0.114
std-hd: 0.730
hd: 0.670
Deb Mukherjee [Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:46:33 +0000 (17:46 -0700)]
Merging and bug-fix in enhanced_interp experiment
Merged the enhanced_interp experiment.
Found and fixed a bug in the include files framework, whereby
certain encoder files were still using the old INTERP_EXTEND
value of 3 instead of 4. The thresholds for mv range mcomp.c
need a small adjustment to prevent crashes.
Deb Mukherjee [Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:43:01 +0000 (13:43 -0700)]
Adds support for switchable interpolation filters.
Allows for swtiching/setting interpolation filters at the MB
level. A frame level flag indicates whether to use a specifc
filter for the entire frame or to signal the interpolation
filter for each MB. When switchable filters are used, the
encoder chooses between 8-tap and 8-tap sharp filters. The
code currently has options to explore other variations as well,
which will be cleaned up subsequently.
One issue with the framework is that encoding is slow. I
tried to do some tricks to speed things up but it is still slow.
Decoding speed should not be affected since the number of
filter taps remain unchanged.
With the current version, we are up 0.5% on derf on average but
some videos city/mobile improve by close to 4 and 2% respectively.
If we did a full-search by turning the SEARCH_BEST_FILTER flag
on, the results are somewhat better.
The framework can be combined with filtered prediction, and I
seek feedback regarding that.
Deb Mukherjee [Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:29:46 +0000 (11:29 -0700)]
Merges several experiments
The following five experiments are merged:
newentropy
newupdate
adaptive_entropy (also includes a couple of parameter changes
that improves results a little
in common/entropymode.c and encoder/modecosts.c
that were not merged from the internal branch)
newintramodes
expanded_coef_context
Jingning Han [Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:26:09 +0000 (12:26 -0700)]
Adds hybrid transform
Adds ADST/DCT hybrid transform coding for Intra4x4 mode.
The ADST is applied to directions in which the boundary
pixels are used for prediction, while DCT applied to
directions without corresponding boundary prediction.
Adds enum TX_TYPE in b_mode_infor to indicate the transform
type used.
Make coding style consistent with google style.
Fixed the commented issues.
Experimental results in terms of bit-rate reduction:
derf: 0.731%
yt: 0.982%
std-hd: 0.459%
hd: 0.725%
the integer version has very good precision, the float version is no
longer useful. this commit also removes the experiment option from
configure script.
this commit removes a number of experiment options from configure
script. the associated experiments are already fully merged, the
options in configure script have no effect at all.
Ronald S. Bultje [Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:49:37 +0000 (17:49 -0700)]
Fix bug in reference frame counting.
vp8_encode_inter_macroblock() is called in both pick_mb_modes() as
well as encode_sb(), thus the number of macroblocks in the counter
were twice as big as actual numbers. This doesn't affect output.
Yaowu Xu [Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:03:29 +0000 (17:03 -0700)]
change to enable encoder to clamp UV motion vector
This is to avoid a rare encoder/decoder mismatch for MB using SPLITMV
mode. In decoder, the UV mv can be determined to need clamp, but the
flag is never set in encoder motion vector selection process, and the
clamp is not done in encoding in encoder.
Hui Su [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:03:31 +0000 (19:03 -0700)]
Add lossless compression mode.
This commit adds lossless compression capability to the experimental
branch. The lossless experiment can be enabled using --enable-lossless
in configure. When the experiment is enabled, the encoder will use
lossless compression mode by command line option --lossless, and the
decoder automatically recognizes a losslessly encoded clip and decodes
accordingly.
To achieve the lossless coding, this commit has changed the following:
1. To encode at lossless mode, encoder forces the use of unit
quantizer, i.e, Q 0, where effective quantization is 1. Encoder also
disables the usage of 8x8 transform and allows only 4x4 transform;
2. At Q 0, the first order 4x4 DCT/IDCT have been switched over
to a pair of forward and inverse Walsh-Hadamard Transform
(http://goo.gl/EIsfy), with proper scaling applied to match the range
of the original 4x4 DCT/IDCT pair;
3. At Q 0, the second order remains to use the previous
walsh-hadamard transform pair. However, to maintain the reversibility
in second order transform at Q 0, scaling down is applied to first
order DC coefficients prior to forward transform, and scaling up is
applied to the second order output prior to quantization. Symmetric
upscaling and downscaling are added around inverse second order
transform;
4. At lossless mode, encoder also disables a number of minor
features to ensure no loss is introduced, these features includes:
a. Trellis quantization optimization
b. Loop filtering
c. Aggressive zero-binning, rounding and zero-bin boosting
d. Mode based zero-bin boosting
Lossless coding test was performed on all clips within the derf set,
to verify that the commit has achieved lossless compression for all
clips. The average compression ratio is around 2.57 to 1.
(http://goo.gl/dEShs)
Adrian Grange [Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:23:58 +0000 (16:23 -0700)]
Added Prediction Filter to Mode Selection
Added the ability to optionally filter the prediction data
when inter modes are selected (excludes SPLITMV, for now).
The mode selection loop considers both the filtered and
non-filtered prediction data when choosing mode. The filter
can be turned on/off at the frame-level, or signaled for
each MB.
Deb Mukherjee [Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:25:07 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
Adaptive entropy coding of coefficients, modes, mv.
This patch incorporates adaptive entropy coding of coefficient tokens,
and mode/mv information based on distributions encountered in a frame.
Specifically, there is an initial forward update to the probabilities
in the bitstream as before for coding the symbols in the frame, however
at the end of decoding each frame, the forward update to the
probabilities is reverted and instead the probabilities are updated
towards the actual distributions encountered within the frame.
The amount of update is weighted by the number of hits within each
context.
Results on derf/hd/std-hd are all up by 1.6%.
On derf, the most of the gains come from coefficients, however for the
hd and std-hd sets, the most of the gains come from the mode/mv
information updates.
Yaowu Xu [Thu, 24 May 2012 19:02:12 +0000 (12:02 -0700)]
changed to use a fixed number for update probabity
This commit is to remove two arrays, which contain the probabilities
of how likely each probability in coef_probs table is updated. The
commit changed to use a fixed number "252".
Surprisedly, the overall impact on quality is close to zero, which
basically says the two big static arrays are not helpful at all.
derf: -0.016%, -0.020%
std-hd: 0.000%, -0.013%
yt: -0.022%, +0.007%
yt-hd: -0.038%, +0.034%
Yaowu Xu [Tue, 8 May 2012 19:38:39 +0000 (12:38 -0700)]
Added the ability to accumulate coef stats across encodings
This commit added the ability to accumulate the coef stats across
different encodings using an intermediate binary stats files. The
accumulation happens only the binary stats file exists in current
directory. The encoder needs to be built with "ENTROPY_STATS" to
allow the output. The commit also fixed a few formating issues in
output stats file.
Paul Wilkins [Wed, 30 May 2012 11:54:34 +0000 (12:54 +0100)]
Merge of further two pass rc clean up and adjustments.
Changes to calculation of sr_coded_error to include 0,0 case.
Experimental use of sr_coded_error in calculating correction factor
for estimating the allowable Q range.
Reinstated some code needed for calculating section_intra_rating.
Add flash detection in calculation of KF boost
Increased tolerance in testing candidate key frames (needed with
longer motion search as this tends to slightly increase inter %.
Zbin changes for 8x8.
Other minor adjustments, refactoring and bug fixes.
Reinstated some motion break out clauses in boost loop
as their removal hurt a few 50fps clips badly in the std set.
It may be possible to remove them again later if a better way
can be found of preventing overly long gf intervals.
Paul Wilkins [Wed, 30 May 2012 10:29:49 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
Rate control fix.
This fix addresses some problems with very complex clips like
handling of flashes on clips like crew (which was made worse
by an earlier patch (derf and std-hd)).
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