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Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] gpu: ipu-ic: Add complete image conversion support with tiling

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Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2016, 17:18 -0700 schrieb Steve Longerbeam:
> On 08/01/2016 02:29 AM, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 28.07.2016, 16:09 -0700 schrieb Steve Longerbeam:
> >>> Now split the frame in half and suddenly pixel x' = 640 is the start of
> >>> a new tile, so it is sampled at x = 160, and pixel x' = 1279 will be
> >>> sampled at x = 160 + (1279 - 640) * 8192/32846. = 319.37, reading over
> >>> the edge of the source image.
> >> Here's where we part.
> >>
> >> The 320x200 --> 1280x800 conversion is split into two 160x200 -->
> >> 640x800 conversions. The DMA controller and ipu_ic_task_init() are given
> >> those width/height dimensions, not the dimensions of the original images.
> >> So this is simply two separate 160x200 --> 640x800 conversions. The only
> >> difference from a true 160x200 --> 640x800 image conversion is that the DMA
> >> controller must be given the stride lengths of the original 320x200 and 
> >> 1280x800
> >> images.
> >>
> >> The rsc for the 160x200 --> 640x800 conversions is
> >>
> >> x = x' * (160-1)/(640-1) = x' * 8192/rsc, so rsc = 32923
> >>
> >>
> >> So original horizontal position 640 is really x' = 0 of the second 
> >> conversion,
> >> which is sampled at x = 0 of the second conversion. And the pixel at x' 
> >> = 1279
> >> is really x' = 639 of the second conversion, which is sampled at x = 639 
> >> * 8192/32923
> >> = 158.98, which does not read over the edge of the source tile.
> > My bad, I somehow thought that the scaling factor is calculated per
> > image (as it IMHO should be), not just per tile.
> >
> > Of course in that case you won't ever read over the edge, but on the
> > other hand the visual problems are worse because you underestimate the
> > scaling factor and introduce a sharp edge at the center: even if the
> > source pixel step per target pixel step is a fraction, between pixels
> > width/2-1 and width/2 there's always a whole source pixel step.
> >
> > Take the extreme example of scaling 32x32 to 1080x1080 pixels. The ideal
> > source pixels for x' = 519 and 520 should be x = 14.911 and 14.939,
> > respectively. Due to tiling they will be x = 15 and 16, introducing a
> > sharp seam in the otherwise blurry mess.
> 
> I think you mean at x' = 539 and x' = 540.
> 
> But yes I agree. Due to tiling, at x' = 539, the input pixel is sampled at x = 15.
> If the interpolation were to contnue (no tiling), at x' = 540, the input pixel
> would be sampled at (31/1079)*540 = 15.514. Instead, because of tiling,
> there is a discontinuity in the interpolation (it is reset), beginning again at
> x' = 0 (540), which is sampled at x = 0 (16).
> 
> The only way I can think of to resolve this problem is to add some width
> to the output tiles such that the interpolation completes a full span between
> input position w - 2 and w - 1. That is, add to w' until floor(F*w') increments
> to the next whole integer, where F = (w-1)/(w'-1) is the scaling factor.
> 
> But that will likely cause the next tile DMA addrs to fail to fall on the IDMAC
> 8 byte alignment.

I always wanted to have a look at the scroll feature, maybe SX can be
used to start at odd pixels?

regards
Philipp

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Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] gpu: ipu-ic: Add complete image conversion  support with tiling Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> - 2016-08-12 17:00 +0200

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