Hello,<br><br>I will be working on google summer of code this summer. Below is an overview of my project.<br><br>The goal of this project is to improve heuristics and decision-making for inter refinement in order to improve efficiency given average encoding settings. This will involve various early termination heuristics along with methods of deciding which partition modes need to be searched while performing minimal actual searching on them. I also plan to experiment with different methods that can be used to improve psycho-visual optimizations for mode decisions and quantization. This will include improving variance adaptive quantization by experimenting with different methods which could be used to weight the variance in order to select a more optimized quantizer.<br>
<br>You can usually find me in the #x264-dev channel if you want to talk about the project. I promise to be more active in the coming weeks :]<br><br>- Joey Degges<br>