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1 /*
2  *  Copyright (c) 2010 The WebM project authors. All Rights Reserved.
3  *
4  *  Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
5  *  that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
6  *  tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
7  *  in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
8  *  be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
9  */
10 
11 #ifndef VP9_ENCODER_VP9_SPEED_FEATURES_H_
12 #define VP9_ENCODER_VP9_SPEED_FEATURES_H_
13 
14 #include "vp9/common/vp9_enums.h"
15 
16 #ifdef __cplusplus
17 extern "C" {
18 #endif
19 
20 enum {
21   INTRA_ALL       = (1 << DC_PRED) |
22                     (1 << V_PRED) | (1 << H_PRED) |
23                     (1 << D45_PRED) | (1 << D135_PRED) |
24                     (1 << D117_PRED) | (1 << D153_PRED) |
25                     (1 << D207_PRED) | (1 << D63_PRED) |
26                     (1 << TM_PRED),
27   INTRA_DC        = (1 << DC_PRED),
28   INTRA_DC_TM     = (1 << DC_PRED) | (1 << TM_PRED),
29   INTRA_DC_H_V    = (1 << DC_PRED) | (1 << V_PRED) | (1 << H_PRED),
30   INTRA_DC_TM_H_V = (1 << DC_PRED) | (1 << TM_PRED) | (1 << V_PRED) |
31                     (1 << H_PRED)
32 };
33 
34 enum {
35   INTER_ALL = (1 << NEARESTMV) | (1 << NEARMV) | (1 << ZEROMV) | (1 << NEWMV),
36   INTER_NEAREST = (1 << NEARESTMV),
37   INTER_NEAREST_NEW = (1 << NEARESTMV) | (1 << NEWMV),
38   INTER_NEAREST_ZERO = (1 << NEARESTMV) | (1 << ZEROMV),
39   INTER_NEAREST_NEW_ZERO = (1 << NEARESTMV) | (1 << ZEROMV) | (1 << NEWMV),
40   INTER_NEAREST_NEAR_NEW = (1 << NEARESTMV) | (1 << NEARMV) | (1 << NEWMV),
41   INTER_NEAREST_NEAR_ZERO = (1 << NEARESTMV) | (1 << NEARMV) | (1 << ZEROMV),
42 };
43 
44 enum {
45   DISABLE_ALL_INTER_SPLIT   = (1 << THR_COMP_GA) |
46                               (1 << THR_COMP_LA) |
47                               (1 << THR_ALTR) |
48                               (1 << THR_GOLD) |
49                               (1 << THR_LAST),
50 
51   DISABLE_ALL_SPLIT         = (1 << THR_INTRA) | DISABLE_ALL_INTER_SPLIT,
52 
53   DISABLE_COMPOUND_SPLIT    = (1 << THR_COMP_GA) | (1 << THR_COMP_LA),
54 
55   LAST_AND_INTRA_SPLIT_ONLY = (1 << THR_COMP_GA) |
56                               (1 << THR_COMP_LA) |
57                               (1 << THR_ALTR) |
58                               (1 << THR_GOLD)
59 };
60 
61 typedef enum {
62   DIAMOND = 0,
63   NSTEP = 1,
64   HEX = 2,
65   BIGDIA = 3,
66   SQUARE = 4,
67   FAST_HEX = 5,
68   FAST_DIAMOND = 6
69 } SEARCH_METHODS;
70 
71 typedef enum {
72   // No recode.
73   DISALLOW_RECODE = 0,
74   // Allow recode for KF and exceeding maximum frame bandwidth.
75   ALLOW_RECODE_KFMAXBW = 1,
76   // Allow recode only for KF/ARF/GF frames.
77   ALLOW_RECODE_KFARFGF = 2,
78   // Allow recode for all frames based on bitrate constraints.
79   ALLOW_RECODE = 3,
80 } RECODE_LOOP_TYPE;
81 
82 typedef enum {
83   SUBPEL_TREE = 0,
84   SUBPEL_TREE_PRUNED = 1,           // Prunes 1/2-pel searches
85   SUBPEL_TREE_PRUNED_MORE = 2,      // Prunes 1/2-pel searches more aggressively
86   SUBPEL_TREE_PRUNED_EVENMORE = 3,  // Prunes 1/2- and 1/4-pel searches
87   // Other methods to come
88 } SUBPEL_SEARCH_METHODS;
89 
90 typedef enum {
91   NO_MOTION_THRESHOLD = 0,
92   LOW_MOTION_THRESHOLD = 7
93 } MOTION_THRESHOLD;
94 
95 typedef enum {
96   USE_FULL_RD = 0,
97   USE_LARGESTALL,
98   USE_TX_8X8
99 } TX_SIZE_SEARCH_METHOD;
100 
101 typedef enum {
102   NOT_IN_USE = 0,
103   RELAXED_NEIGHBORING_MIN_MAX = 1,
104   STRICT_NEIGHBORING_MIN_MAX = 2
105 } AUTO_MIN_MAX_MODE;
106 
107 typedef enum {
108   // Try the full image with different values.
109   LPF_PICK_FROM_FULL_IMAGE,
110   // Try a small portion of the image with different values.
111   LPF_PICK_FROM_SUBIMAGE,
112   // Estimate the level based on quantizer and frame type
113   LPF_PICK_FROM_Q,
114   // Pick 0 to disable LPF if LPF was enabled last frame
115   LPF_PICK_MINIMAL_LPF
116 } LPF_PICK_METHOD;
117 
118 typedef enum {
119   // Terminate search early based on distortion so far compared to
120   // qp step, distortion in the neighborhood of the frame, etc.
121   FLAG_EARLY_TERMINATE = 1 << 0,
122 
123   // Skips comp inter modes if the best so far is an intra mode.
124   FLAG_SKIP_COMP_BESTINTRA = 1 << 1,
125 
126   // Skips oblique intra modes if the best so far is an inter mode.
127   FLAG_SKIP_INTRA_BESTINTER = 1 << 3,
128 
129   // Skips oblique intra modes  at angles 27, 63, 117, 153 if the best
130   // intra so far is not one of the neighboring directions.
131   FLAG_SKIP_INTRA_DIRMISMATCH = 1 << 4,
132 
133   // Skips intra modes other than DC_PRED if the source variance is small
134   FLAG_SKIP_INTRA_LOWVAR = 1 << 5,
135 } MODE_SEARCH_SKIP_LOGIC;
136 
137 typedef enum {
138   FLAG_SKIP_EIGHTTAP = 1 << EIGHTTAP,
139   FLAG_SKIP_EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH = 1 << EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH,
140   FLAG_SKIP_EIGHTTAP_SHARP = 1 << EIGHTTAP_SHARP,
141 } INTERP_FILTER_MASK;
142 
143 typedef enum {
144   // Search partitions using RD/NONRD criterion
145   SEARCH_PARTITION,
146 
147   // Always use a fixed size partition
148   FIXED_PARTITION,
149 
150   REFERENCE_PARTITION,
151 
152   // Use an arbitrary partitioning scheme based on source variance within
153   // a 64X64 SB
154   VAR_BASED_PARTITION,
155 
156   // Use non-fixed partitions based on source variance
157   SOURCE_VAR_BASED_PARTITION
158 } PARTITION_SEARCH_TYPE;
159 
160 typedef enum {
161   // Does a dry run to see if any of the contexts need to be updated or not,
162   // before the final run.
163   TWO_LOOP = 0,
164 
165   // No dry run, also only half the coef contexts and bands are updated.
166   // The rest are not updated at all.
167   ONE_LOOP_REDUCED = 1
168 } FAST_COEFF_UPDATE;
169 
170 typedef struct MV_SPEED_FEATURES {
171   // Motion search method (Diamond, NSTEP, Hex, Big Diamond, Square, etc).
172   SEARCH_METHODS search_method;
173 
174   // This parameter controls which step in the n-step process we start at.
175   // It's changed adaptively based on circumstances.
176   int reduce_first_step_size;
177 
178   // If this is set to 1, we limit the motion search range to 2 times the
179   // largest motion vector found in the last frame.
180   int auto_mv_step_size;
181 
182   // Subpel_search_method can only be subpel_tree which does a subpixel
183   // logarithmic search that keeps stepping at 1/2 pixel units until
184   // you stop getting a gain, and then goes on to 1/4 and repeats
185   // the same process. Along the way it skips many diagonals.
186   SUBPEL_SEARCH_METHODS subpel_search_method;
187 
188   // Maximum number of steps in logarithmic subpel search before giving up.
189   int subpel_iters_per_step;
190 
191   // Control when to stop subpel search
192   int subpel_force_stop;
193 
194   // This variable sets the step_param used in full pel motion search.
195   int fullpel_search_step_param;
196 } MV_SPEED_FEATURES;
197 
198 typedef struct SPEED_FEATURES {
199   MV_SPEED_FEATURES mv;
200 
201   // Frame level coding parameter update
202   int frame_parameter_update;
203 
204   RECODE_LOOP_TYPE recode_loop;
205 
206   // Trellis (dynamic programming) optimization of quantized values (+1, 0).
207   int optimize_coefficients;
208 
209   // Always set to 0. If on it enables 0 cost background transmission
210   // (except for the initial transmission of the segmentation). The feature is
211   // disabled because the addition of very large block sizes make the
212   // backgrounds very to cheap to encode, and the segmentation we have
213   // adds overhead.
214   int static_segmentation;
215 
216   // If 1 we iterate finding a best reference for 2 ref frames together - via
217   // a log search that iterates 4 times (check around mv for last for best
218   // error of combined predictor then check around mv for alt). If 0 we
219   // we just use the best motion vector found for each frame by itself.
220   BLOCK_SIZE comp_inter_joint_search_thresh;
221 
222   // This variable is used to cap the maximum number of times we skip testing a
223   // mode to be evaluated. A high value means we will be faster.
224   int adaptive_rd_thresh;
225 
226   // Enables skipping the reconstruction step (idct, recon) in the
227   // intermediate steps assuming the last frame didn't have too many intra
228   // blocks and the q is less than a threshold.
229   int skip_encode_sb;
230   int skip_encode_frame;
231   // Speed feature to allow or disallow skipping of recode at block
232   // level within a frame.
233   int allow_skip_recode;
234 
235   // Coefficient probability model approximation step size
236   int coeff_prob_appx_step;
237 
238   // The threshold is to determine how slow the motino is, it is used when
239   // use_lastframe_partitioning is set to LAST_FRAME_PARTITION_LOW_MOTION
240   MOTION_THRESHOLD lf_motion_threshold;
241 
242   // Determine which method we use to determine transform size. We can choose
243   // between options like full rd, largest for prediction size, largest
244   // for intra and model coefs for the rest.
245   TX_SIZE_SEARCH_METHOD tx_size_search_method;
246 
247   // Low precision 32x32 fdct keeps everything in 16 bits and thus is less
248   // precise but significantly faster than the non lp version.
249   int use_lp32x32fdct;
250 
251   // After looking at the first set of modes (set by index here), skip
252   // checking modes for reference frames that don't match the reference frame
253   // of the best so far.
254   int mode_skip_start;
255 
256   // TODO(JBB): Remove this.
257   int reference_masking;
258 
259   PARTITION_SEARCH_TYPE partition_search_type;
260 
261   // Used if partition_search_type = FIXED_SIZE_PARTITION
262   BLOCK_SIZE always_this_block_size;
263 
264   // Skip rectangular partition test when partition type none gives better
265   // rd than partition type split.
266   int less_rectangular_check;
267 
268   // Disable testing non square partitions. (eg 16x32)
269   int use_square_partition_only;
270   BLOCK_SIZE use_square_only_threshold;
271 
272   // Sets min and max partition sizes for this 64x64 region based on the
273   // same 64x64 in last encoded frame, and the left and above neighbor.
274   AUTO_MIN_MAX_MODE auto_min_max_partition_size;
275   // Ensures the rd based auto partition search will always
276   // go down at least to the specified level.
277   BLOCK_SIZE rd_auto_partition_min_limit;
278 
279   // Min and max partition size we enable (block_size) as per auto
280   // min max, but also used by adjust partitioning, and pick_partitioning.
281   BLOCK_SIZE default_min_partition_size;
282   BLOCK_SIZE default_max_partition_size;
283 
284   // Whether or not we allow partitions one smaller or one greater than the last
285   // frame's partitioning. Only used if use_lastframe_partitioning is set.
286   int adjust_partitioning_from_last_frame;
287 
288   // How frequently we re do the partitioning from scratch. Only used if
289   // use_lastframe_partitioning is set.
290   int last_partitioning_redo_frequency;
291 
292   // Disables sub 8x8 blocksizes in different scenarios: Choices are to disable
293   // it always, to allow it for only Last frame and Intra, disable it for all
294   // inter modes or to enable it always.
295   int disable_split_mask;
296 
297   // TODO(jingning): combine the related motion search speed features
298   // This allows us to use motion search at other sizes as a starting
299   // point for this motion search and limits the search range around it.
300   int adaptive_motion_search;
301 
302   int schedule_mode_search;
303 
304   // Allows sub 8x8 modes to use the prediction filter that was determined
305   // best for 8x8 mode. If set to 0 we always re check all the filters for
306   // sizes less than 8x8, 1 means we check all filter modes if no 8x8 filter
307   // was selected, and 2 means we use 8 tap if no 8x8 filter mode was selected.
308   int adaptive_pred_interp_filter;
309 
310   // Adaptive prediction mode search
311   int adaptive_mode_search;
312 
313   // Chessboard pattern prediction filter type search
314   int cb_pred_filter_search;
315 
316   int cb_partition_search;
317 
318   int motion_field_mode_search;
319 
320   int alt_ref_search_fp;
321 
322   // Fast quantization process path
323   int use_quant_fp;
324 
325   // Use finer quantizer in every other few frames that run variable block
326   // partition type search.
327   int force_frame_boost;
328 
329   // Maximally allowed base quantization index fluctuation.
330   int max_delta_qindex;
331 
332   // Implements various heuristics to skip searching modes
333   // The heuristics selected are based on  flags
334   // defined in the MODE_SEARCH_SKIP_HEURISTICS enum
335   unsigned int mode_search_skip_flags;
336 
337   // A source variance threshold below which filter search is disabled
338   // Choose a very large value (UINT_MAX) to use 8-tap always
339   unsigned int disable_filter_search_var_thresh;
340 
341   // These bit masks allow you to enable or disable intra modes for each
342   // transform size separately.
343   int intra_y_mode_mask[TX_SIZES];
344   int intra_uv_mode_mask[TX_SIZES];
345 
346   // These bit masks allow you to enable or disable intra modes for each
347   // prediction block size separately.
348   int intra_y_mode_bsize_mask[BLOCK_SIZES];
349 
350   // This variable enables an early break out of mode testing if the model for
351   // rd built from the prediction signal indicates a value that's much
352   // higher than the best rd we've seen so far.
353   int use_rd_breakout;
354 
355   // This enables us to use an estimate for intra rd based on dc mode rather
356   // than choosing an actual uv mode in the stage of encoding before the actual
357   // final encode.
358   int use_uv_intra_rd_estimate;
359 
360   // This feature controls how the loop filter level is determined.
361   LPF_PICK_METHOD lpf_pick;
362 
363   // This feature limits the number of coefficients updates we actually do
364   // by only looking at counts from 1/2 the bands.
365   FAST_COEFF_UPDATE use_fast_coef_updates;
366 
367   // This flag controls the use of non-RD mode decision.
368   int use_nonrd_pick_mode;
369 
370   // A binary mask indicating if NEARESTMV, NEARMV, ZEROMV, NEWMV
371   // modes are used in order from LSB to MSB for each BLOCK_SIZE.
372   int inter_mode_mask[BLOCK_SIZES];
373 
374   // This feature controls whether we do the expensive context update and
375   // calculation in the rd coefficient costing loop.
376   int use_fast_coef_costing;
377 
378   // This feature controls the tolerence vs target used in deciding whether to
379   // recode a frame. It has no meaning if recode is disabled.
380   int recode_tolerance;
381 
382   // This variable controls the maximum block size where intra blocks can be
383   // used in inter frames.
384   // TODO(aconverse): Fold this into one of the other many mode skips
385   BLOCK_SIZE max_intra_bsize;
386 
387   // The frequency that we check if SOURCE_VAR_BASED_PARTITION or
388   // FIXED_PARTITION search type should be used.
389   int search_type_check_frequency;
390 
391   // When partition is pre-set, the inter prediction result from pick_inter_mode
392   // can be reused in final block encoding process. It is enabled only for real-
393   // time mode speed 6.
394   int reuse_inter_pred_sby;
395 
396   // This variable sets the encode_breakout threshold. Currently, it is only
397   // enabled in real time mode.
398   int encode_breakout_thresh;
399 
400   // default interp filter choice
401   INTERP_FILTER default_interp_filter;
402 
403   // Early termination in transform size search, which only applies while
404   // tx_size_search_method is USE_FULL_RD.
405   int tx_size_search_breakout;
406 
407   // adaptive interp_filter search to allow skip of certain filter types.
408   int adaptive_interp_filter_search;
409 
410   // mask for skip evaluation of certain interp_filter type.
411   INTERP_FILTER_MASK interp_filter_search_mask;
412 
413   // Partition search early breakout thresholds.
414   int64_t partition_search_breakout_dist_thr;
415   int partition_search_breakout_rate_thr;
416 
417   // Allow skipping partition search for still image frame
418   int allow_partition_search_skip;
419 
420   // Fast approximation of vp9_model_rd_from_var_lapndz
421   int simple_model_rd_from_var;
422 } SPEED_FEATURES;
423 
424 struct VP9_COMP;
425 
426 void vp9_set_speed_features_framesize_independent(struct VP9_COMP *cpi);
427 void vp9_set_speed_features_framesize_dependent(struct VP9_COMP *cpi);
428 
429 #ifdef __cplusplus
430 }  // extern "C"
431 #endif
432 
433 #endif  // VP9_ENCODER_VP9_SPEED_FEATURES_H_
434