[x265] [PATCH] [branches master, 3.4, 3.5] Fixes inconsistency in rskip 2 at slow presets

Srikanth Kurapati srikanth.kurapati at multicorewareinc.com
Tue Oct 6 07:40:15 CEST 2020


>From b5b5194847c924bafcae7293d9a56fcc5a98339b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srikanth Kurapati <srikanth.kurapati at multicorewareinc.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:39:25 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes inconsistency in rskip 2 for slow presets

Considers the following based on rd levels
a) colocated CTU depth information.
b) skip decisions based on neighbour costs/residual bits.
---
 doc/reST/cli.rst                 |  6 ++++--
 source/encoder/analysis.cpp      | 23 ++++++++---------------
 source/test/regression-tests.txt |  2 +-
 source/x265cli.cpp               |  5 ++---
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/reST/cli.rst b/doc/reST/cli.rst
index 1a1de9f50..a9f77c290 100755
--- a/doc/reST/cli.rst
+++ b/doc/reST/cli.rst
@@ -854,11 +854,13 @@ the prediction quad-tree.

+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
  | RD Level | Rskip Mode |   Skip Recursion Heuristic
                |

+==========+============+================================================================+
- |   0 - 4  |      1     |   Neighbour costs and CU homogenity.
                |
+ |   0 - 4  |      1     |   Neighbour costs and CU homogeneity.
               |

+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
  |   5 - 6  |      1     |   Comparison with inter2Nx2N.
               |

+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
- |   0 - 6  |      2     |   CU edge density.
                |
+ |   0 - 6  |      2     |   Neighbour costs and CU edge density.
                |
+
+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |   5 - 6  |      2     |   Comparison with inter2Nx2N and CU edge
density.              |

+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

  Provides minimal quality degradation at good performance gains for
non-zero modes.
diff --git a/source/encoder/analysis.cpp b/source/encoder/analysis.cpp
index aabf386ca..18a7b2988 100644
--- a/source/encoder/analysis.cpp
+++ b/source/encoder/analysis.cpp
@@ -1319,17 +1319,13 @@ SplitData Analysis::compressInterCU_rd0_4(const
CUData& parentCTU, const CUGeom&
             skipRecursion = md.bestMode->cu.isSkipped(0);
             if (mightSplit && !skipRecursion)
             {
-                if (depth >= minDepth && m_param->recursionSkipMode ==
RDCOST_BASED_RSKIP)
+                if (depth >= minDepth)
                 {
                     if (depth)
                         skipRecursion = recursionDepthCheck(parentCTU,
cuGeom, *md.bestMode);
-                    if (m_bHD && !skipRecursion && m_param->rdLevel == 2
&& md.fencYuv.m_size != MAX_CU_SIZE)
+                    if (!skipRecursion)
                         skipRecursion = complexityCheckCU(*md.bestMode);
                 }
-                else if (cuGeom.log2CUSize >= MAX_LOG2_CU_SIZE - 1 &&
m_param->recursionSkipMode == EDGE_BASED_RSKIP)
-                {
-                    skipRecursion = complexityCheckCU(*md.bestMode);
-                }

             }
         }
@@ -2025,8 +2021,8 @@ SplitData Analysis::compressInterCU_rd5_6(const
CUData& parentCTU, const CUGeom&

             if (m_param->recursionSkipMode == RDCOST_BASED_RSKIP && depth
&& m_modeDepth[depth - 1].bestMode)
                 skipRecursion = md.bestMode &&
!md.bestMode->cu.getQtRootCbf(0);
-            else if (cuGeom.log2CUSize >= MAX_LOG2_CU_SIZE - 1 &&
m_param->recursionSkipMode == EDGE_BASED_RSKIP)
-                skipRecursion = md.bestMode &&
complexityCheckCU(*md.bestMode);
+            else if (m_param->recursionSkipMode == EDGE_BASED_RSKIP &&
(!depth || (depth && m_modeDepth[depth - 1].bestMode)))
+                skipRecursion = md.bestMode &&
(complexityCheckCU(*md.bestMode) || !md.bestMode->cu.getQtRootCbf(0));
         }
         if (m_param->bAnalysisType == AVC_INFO && md.bestMode &&
cuGeom.numPartitions <= 16 && m_param->analysisLoadReuseLevel == 7)
             skipRecursion = true;
@@ -3535,7 +3531,7 @@ bool Analysis::recursionDepthCheck(const CUData&
parentCTU, const CUGeom& cuGeom

 bool Analysis::complexityCheckCU(const Mode& bestMode)
 {
-    if (m_param->recursionSkipMode == RDCOST_BASED_RSKIP)
+    if (m_param->recursionSkipMode == RDCOST_BASED_RSKIP && m_bHD &&
m_param->rdLevel == 2 && bestMode.fencYuv->m_size != MAX_CU_SIZE)
     {
         uint32_t mean = 0;
         uint32_t homo = 0;
@@ -3555,10 +3551,8 @@ bool Analysis::complexityCheckCU(const Mode&
bestMode)

         if (homo < (.1 * mean))
             return true;
-
-        return false;
     }
-    else
+    else if (bestMode.fencYuv->m_size >= MAX_CU_SIZE - 1 &&
m_param->recursionSkipMode == EDGE_BASED_RSKIP)
     {
         int blockType = bestMode.cu.m_log2CUSize[0] - LOG2_UNIT_SIZE;
         int shift = bestMode.cu.m_log2CUSize[0] * LOG2_UNIT_SIZE;
@@ -3570,11 +3564,10 @@ bool Analysis::complexityCheckCU(const Mode&
bestMode)
         uint32_t pixelCount = 1 << shift;
         double cuEdgeVariance = (ss - ((double)sum * sum / pixelCount)) /
pixelCount;

-        if (cuEdgeVariance > (double)m_param->edgeVarThreshold)
-            return false;
-        else
+        if (cuEdgeVariance < (double)m_param->edgeVarThreshold)
             return true;
     }
+    return false;
  }

 uint32_t Analysis::calculateCUVariance(const CUData& ctu, const CUGeom&
cuGeom)
diff --git a/source/test/regression-tests.txt
b/source/test/regression-tests.txt
index 22673d469..23237a263 100644
--- a/source/test/regression-tests.txt
+++ b/source/test/regression-tests.txt
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ sintel_trailer_2k_1920x1080_24.yuv, --preset medium
--hist-scenecut --hist-thres
 sintel_trailer_2k_1920x1080_24.yuv, --preset medium --hist-scenecut
--hist-threshold 0.02
 sintel_trailer_2k_1920x1080_24.yuv, --preset ultrafast --hist-scenecut
--hist-threshold 0.02
 crowd_run_1920x1080_50.yuv, --preset faster --ctu 32 --rskip 2
--rskip-edge-threshold 5
-crowd_run_1920x1080_50.yuv, --preset fast --ctu 64 --rskip 2
--rskip-edge-threshold 5 --aq-mode 4
+crowd_run_1920x1080_50.yuv, --preset medium --ctu 32 --rskip 2
--rskip-edge-threshold 5
 crowd_run_1920x1080_50.yuv, --preset slow --ctu 32 --rskip 2
--rskip-edge-threshold 5 --hist-scenecut --hist-threshold 0.1
 crowd_run_1920x1080_50.yuv, --preset slower --ctu 16 --rskip 2
--rskip-edge-threshold 5 --hist-scenecut --hist-threshold 0.1 --aq-mode 4

diff --git a/source/x265cli.cpp b/source/x265cli.cpp
index c28dd7f8c..0c74bf7b6 100755
--- a/source/x265cli.cpp
+++ b/source/x265cli.cpp
@@ -127,9 +127,8 @@ namespace X265_NS {
         H0("   --[no-]ssim-rd                Enable ssim rate distortion
optimization, 0 to disable. Default %s\n", OPT(param->bSsimRd));
         H0("   --[no-]rd-refine              Enable QP based RD refinement
for rd levels 5 and 6. Default %s\n", OPT(param->bEnableRdRefine));
         H0("   --[no-]early-skip             Enable early SKIP detection.
Default %s\n", OPT(param->bEnableEarlySkip));
-        H0("   --rskip <mode>                Set mode for early exit from
recursion. Mode 1: exit using rdcost & CU homogenity. Mode 2: exit using CU
edge density.\n"
-            "                                 Mode 0: disabled. Default
%d\n", param->recursionSkipMode);
-        H1("   --rskip-edge-threshold        Threshold in terms of
percentage (integer of range [0,100]) for minimum edge density in CUs used
to prun the recursion depth. Applicable only for rskip mode 2. Value is
preset dependent. Default: %.f\n", param->edgeVarThreshold*100.0f);
+        H0("   --rskip <Integer>             Enable recursion skip for
early exit from CTU analysis during inter prediction. 1: exit using RD cost
& CU homogeneity. 2: exit using RD cost and CU edge density. 0: disabled.
Default %d\n", param->recursionSkipMode);
+        H1("   --rskip-edge-threshold        Threshold in terms of
percentage (an integer of range [0,100]) for minimum edge density in CU's
used to prune the recursion depth. Applicable only to rskip mode 2. Value
is preset dependent. Default: %.f\n", param->edgeVarThreshold*100.0f);
         H1("   --[no-]tskip-fast             Enable fast intra transform
skipping. Default %s\n", OPT(param->bEnableTSkipFast));
         H1("   --[no-]splitrd-skip           Enable skipping split RD
analysis when sum of split CU rdCost larger than one split CU rdCost for
Intra CU. Default %s\n", OPT(param->bEnableSplitRdSkip));
         H1("   --nr-intra <integer>          An integer value in range of
0 to 2000, which denotes strength of noise reduction in intra CUs. Default
0\n");
--
2.20.1.windows.1

-- 
*With Regards,*
*Srikanth Kurapati.*
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