Closed barrbrain closed 8 years ago
This pull request should be merged with #177, since moving to Q6 necessitates adjusting the the chroma interpolation endpoint and vice versa.
On ntt-short-1, the overall progression in chroma metric is about 4x the regression in luma metrics:
RATE (%) DSNR (dB)
PSNR 0.265129 -0.00946544
PSNRHVS 0.329241 -0.0162786
SSIM 0.232177 -0.00711245
FASTSSIM 0.197832 -0.00580373
CIEDE2000 -0.93191 0.0192225
Commit 16a5045c15993478e3edd631db8ef3a176ef8f35 updates the activity-masking QM entries to take advantage of Q6. Without adding interpolation for the luma QM, it allows for some bitrate skew. For matching average bitrate across all bands between AM and non-AM, it minimises MSE of bitrates in each band. Further analysis suggests only 8x8 and 16x16 bands benefit from interpolation.
The overall effect, including earlier commits:
AWCY Report v0.4
Reference: master-2016-05-19-621b1c8
Test Run: pvq-q6-chroma-haar-nointerp
Range: Anchor vp9-anchor-ntt-short-1c
PSNR: -2.64
PSNRHVS: 1.48
SSIM: -1.37
FASTSSIM: -0.95
CIEDE2000: 0.28
This is a bitstream change with respect to QM sequence. This would almost be a no-op except that the DC scales are updated for the additional precision. This does seem to worsen chroma performance, due to sensitivity to rounding behavior.
Results for ntt-short-1: https://arewecompressedyet.com/?r%5B%5D=pvq-q6-only-2016-05-21T14-31-16.675Z&r%5B%5D=master-2016-05-19-621b1c8&s=ntt-short-1