Release candidate #1 for research-v7.0.0 anchor. Includes the following since the previous anchor: Candidate Tools --------------- - CWG-D181: Fix on BAWP across scales prediction (Disabled by default) - CWG-D171: Low Complexity Chroma Coding - CWG-D172: Partitioning for 1:4 Coding Blocks - CWG-D192: Probability Model Training for Entropy Coding - CWG-E007: merge the prediction steps for TIP reference mode - CWG-E014: MVD coding - CWG-E009: Quick fix of CWG-D149 and CWG-D166 integration - CWG-D146: Quantization Matrix Simplification - CWG-E005: Coefficient coding improvements - CWG-E016: Unification of Cross-Plane Wiener Filters + - CWG-E048: Optimizations to Non-Separable Wiener Filter - CWG-E021: Simplification of Motion Vector Prediction List Construction - CWG-E062: On block size restriction for Chroma-from-Luma prediction modes - CWG-E049: Improvements on Identity Transform Coding - CWG-E039: Wide Angular Intra Prediction - CWG-E006: Linear intra prediction with matched reference templates (Global IBC only) - CWG-E067: Improvement of TMVP - CWG-E031: Bilinear interpolation for DAMR and OPFL - CWG-E066: Addressing latency issue in SDP - CWG-E060: On removing blocking artifacts in sub-prediction blocks - CWG-E029: Signaling Bugfix of CCSO with Band Offset Only - CWG-D178: Improved Lossless Coding for AVM - CWG-E052: Complexity Reduction of Optical Flow and Affine Motion Refinement (aspects 2, 3 and 5) - CWG-E055: Transform partition improvements - CWG-E056: Enhancement of the frame output process (Overlay frames fix only) (overlay frames disabled by default) - CWG-D185: Extended MV Refinement Search - CWG-E030: Downsampling for Subblock-Based MV Refinement Search - CWG-E065: Subblock-Level Padding for Subblock MV Refinement - CWG-E019: Simplification of Motion Field Hole Filling (Aspect #1: change hole filling to 128x128 based) - CWG-E038: On parsing dependency in intra transform signaling - CWG-D191: Inter IST - CWG-E023: SDP extension Encoder-only Changes -------------------- - CWG-E028: Context used in rate estimation fix - CWG-E044: Disable Filter-Intra Prediction Mode - Encoder-only Improvements for prune_ref_frames speed feature - CWG-E070: Encoder speed up using ML-based Partition Pruning (Disabled by default) Code Cleanups / Improvements ---------------------------- - CWG-E010: AVM Analyzer - Accounting/throughput code: support for computing CDF switch counts - Encoder Memory Reductions (Bit-exact) - Encoder Speed Optimizations (Bit-exact) Bugfixes -------- https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/avm/-/milestones/9#tab-issues