Use precise rate cost estimate for skip block mode
authorJingning Han <jingning@google.com>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 19:07:43 +0000 (11:07 -0800)
committerJingning Han <jingning@google.com>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 19:09:16 +0000 (11:09 -0800)
It improves the compression performance of VP9 by 0.1% across all
test sets. No speed change is observed.

Change-Id: I59338c5c9e67bae22188f35fc3afbfe2a6bba6b0

vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c

index 3166f27..f00a58c 100644 (file)
@@ -3355,15 +3355,19 @@ void vp9_rd_pick_inter_mode_sb(VP9_COMP *cpi,
     }
 
     if (!disable_skip) {
+      vpx_prob skip_prob = vp9_get_skip_prob(cm, xd);
       if (skippable) {
         // Back out the coefficient coding costs
         rate2 -= (rate_y + rate_uv);
 
         // Cost the skip mb case
-        rate2 += vp9_cost_bit(vp9_get_skip_prob(cm, xd), 1);
+        rate2 += vp9_cost_bit(skip_prob, 1);
       } else if (ref_frame != INTRA_FRAME && !xd->lossless) {
-        if (RDCOST(x->rdmult, x->rddiv, rate_y + rate_uv, distortion2) <
-            RDCOST(x->rdmult, x->rddiv, 0, total_sse)) {
+        if (RDCOST(x->rdmult, x->rddiv,
+                   rate_y + rate_uv + vp9_cost_bit(skip_prob, 0),
+                   distortion2) <
+            RDCOST(x->rdmult, x->rddiv,
+                   vp9_cost_bit(skip_prob, 1), total_sse)) {
           // Add in the cost of the no skip flag.
           rate2 += vp9_cost_bit(vp9_get_skip_prob(cm, xd), 0);
         } else {