Update CHANGELOG for libaom v3.12.0 Bug: 394596176 Change-Id: Ib4e56b433fadab1d4a8d5cb4c8fd5b870f53ac6a
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -2025-02-06 v3.12.0 +2025-02-10 v3.12.0 This release includes new codec interfaces, compression efficiency and perceptual improvements, speedup and memory optimizations, and bug fixes. This release is ABI compatible with the last release. @@ -9,15 +9,26 @@ these internal functions from the ABI is a bug fix and does not break ABI compatibility. - Acknowledgment: The image quality optimizations in the new tuning - option AOM_TUNE_IQ were originally developed for SVT-AV1-PSY by + Acknowledgments: The image quality optimizations in the new tuning + mode AOM_TUNE_IQ were originally developed for SVT-AV1-PSY by Cole Ogaard, Gianni Rosato, Julio Barba, and Zakaria Djebrouni. - New Features - * New tuning option AOM_TUNE_IQ (image quality) for the + * New tuning mode AOM_TUNE_IQ (image quality) for the AOME_SET_TUNING codec control (--tune=iq) in all-intra mode. The feature detection macro AOM_HAVE_TUNE_IQ, if defined, indicates - that AOM_TUNE_IQ is available. + that AOM_TUNE_IQ is available. The image quality optimizations in + AOM_TUNE_IQ were developed by using the SSIMULACRA 2 metric for + guidance and validated with subjective visual quality checks. + * New value 6 for the AV1E_SET_DELTAQ_MODE codec control + (--deltaq-mode): use modulation for all intra using Variance + Boost. Variance Boost is a variance adaptive quantization + implementation that modulates qindex depending on the ratio of + low-variance to high-variance 8x8 subblocks within a 64x64 + superblock, as well as the actual variance of the subblocks + themselves. + * New value 3 for the AV1E_SET_ENABLE_CDEF codec control + (--enable-cdef): Enable CDEF adaptively based on frame qindex. * In all-intra mode, the AOME_SET_SHARPNESS codec control now also sets the loop_filter_sharpness syntax element in the bitstream. Larger values increasingly reduce how much the filtering can @@ -28,33 +39,47 @@ AV1E_SET_QM_MAX codec control is increased to 10. The default values in good-quality and realtime modes remain unchanged (5 and 9, respectively). - * New value 3 for the AV1E_SET_ENABLE_CDEF codec control - (--enable-cdef): Enable CDEF adaptively based on frame qindex. - * New value 6 for the AV1E_SET_DELTAQ_MODE codec control - (--deltaq-mode): use modulation for all intra using Variance - Boost. - Compression Efficiency Improvements * Tuning mode AOM_TUNE_IQ improves image compression efficiency on the CLIC dataset by up to 12% for the same SSIMULACRA 2 score, up to 14% for the same DSSIM score, and up to 17% for the same Butteraugli score. + * ~3% BD-rate gains for speed 11 VGA camera mode. + * ~5% BD-rate gains for speed 11 on scroll clips screen mode. - Perceptual Quality Improvements * Adjust temporal filter strength for better visual quality. + * RTC screen: visual quality improvements for scrolling and for + scene/slide changes. + * RTC camera mode: visual quality improvements for speed 11 VGA. - Speedup and Memory Optimizations + * Optimize the Arm Neon implementation of the loop filter functions + with an average uplift of 15 - 25% in microbenchmarks. * Add the CDEF optimization for RISC-V. * Help the compiler generate better vectorized code for variance calculation and warped motion in generic CPU builds. * Make several arrays const. - Other Improvements + * Binary size reduction: 1 - 2% compared with last release, with + CONFIG_REALTIME_ONLY enabled, CONFIG_AV1_DECODER and + CONFIG_AV1_HIGHBITDEPTH disabled. * Build: compile source files in parallel under MSVC. - Bug Fixes * Fix bug where metadata added with aom_img_add_metadata was lost when frame scaling was used. + * Bug b:383306740: RTC: Fix to issues with scrolling for screen + content. + * Bug b:382465458: RTC: Fix to artifact for grayscale input. + * Bug b:380247338: RTC: Fix to encode_time spikes on scene/slide + changes. + * RTC: Fix to rate correction factor update for VBR screen mode. + https://groups.google.com/a/aomedia.org/g/av1-discuss/c/nJxECdg-7P8 + * Bug b:378401081: RTC: Fix to cyclic refresh update for external RC + (rate control). 2024-10-24 v3.11.0 This release includes perceptual quality improvements, binary size reduction