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Method ideas: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin,
Alexander Parshin
Implementation: Alexey Moiseytsev, Arsaev Marat

One of the most prominent coding artifacts in highly compressed animated video are the ringing artifacts. Ringing noise preferably manifest itself around edges due to coarse quantization. The filter is designed for quality improvement of compressed cartoons like video by deleting ringing artifacts.

Change Log

Version 2.0b
[+] Added GPU implementation.
[+] Filter performance increased

Version 1.3
[+] GUI improvement
[+] Added motion adaptive mode (filter speedup!)
[+] Added new algorithm Image Similarity (beta version)

Version 1.1
[+] First filter release

Comparison with version 1.3

Settings

Simple mode

This mode allows you select one of several presets, without additional manual filter tuning. "GPU Usage" checkbox will enable GPU mode if available. Simple mode settings:

• Algorithm Quality - Select algorithm by quality. One can select algorithm according to desired speed/quality tradeoff.
• Compression Artefacts - Set quantity of compression artifacts in processed cartoon.
• Motion Adaptive - Turn this feature on to spedup algorithms in cartoons with slow motion. The same option is available in the advanced mode
• Use GPU - This enables GPU mode, if available

Advanced mode

This mode allows configure filter manually and get best quality for particular video. For all methods "Use GPU" checkbox enables GPU mode.

Combo box "Method" allows select one of four implemented algorithms.

Simple Adaptive Filter

• Smoothness - Allows to control strength of filtration.
• Quantization Threshold - Controls amount of ringing artifacts in source video.

Fuzzy Adaptive Filter

There are some presets, which allow quickly selecting filter configuration (use "Preset" list).

Multipass Bilateral Filter

• Iterations
  If this parameter is greater, more texture details replace by flat regions.
• Geometric Dispersion
  Allows to change filter size.
• Photometric Dispersion
  Allows to control amount of ringing artifacts.

Similarity DB Filter (beta version)

Job control and integration with AviSynth

Filter supports VirtualDub Job Control, and it can be used from AviSynth. Some examples are listed below.

Simple Adaptive Filter:

LoadVirtualDubPlugin("MSU_cartoon_restore.vdf","MSUCartoonRestore", 0) 

clip=AVISource("D:\work\video\film.avi", false, "RGB24")

clip.ConvertToRGB32.MSUCartoonRestore("simple", Smoothness, Threshold, GPUUsage)
    

• Smoothness - Integer between 1 and 15. Sets filter strength.
• Threshold - Integer between 1 and 100. Estimates amount of ringing artifacts in source video.
• GPUUsage - 0 or 1. This will enable GPU mode if available.

LoadVirtualDubPlugin("MSU_cartoon_restore.vdf","MSUCartoonRestore", 0) 

clip=AVISource("D:\work\video\film.avi", false, "RGB24")

clip.ConvertToRGB32.MSUCartoonRestore("fuzzy", Strength10, Strength20, Strength30, Strength40, Strength50,  
                          Strength60, Strength70, Strength80, Strength90, Strength100, ShowBlockType)
    

• Strength* - Integers between 0 and 32. Sets filter strength depends on block type.
• ShowBlockType - 0 or 1 (optional). Turns on visualization of block types.
• GPUUsage - 0 or 1. This will enable GPU mode if available.

LoadVirtualDubPlugin("MSU_cartoon_restore.vdf","MSUCartoonRestore", 0) 

clip=AVISource("D:\work\video\film.avi", false, "RGB24")

clip.ConvertToRGB32.MSUCartoonRestore("bilateral", Iterations, GeometricDispersion, PhotometricDispersion)
    

• Iterations - Integer between 1 and 5. Sets the number of passes.
• GeometricDispersion - Integer between 0 and 75. Sets the filter size.
• PhotometricDispersion - Integer between 0 and 200. Estimates amount of ringing artifacts in source video.
• GPUUsage - 0 or 1. This will enable GPU mode if available.

Examples

Source frame	Frame processed by MSU Cartoon Restore
Source frame	Frame processed by MSU Cartoon Restore

Source frame	Simple Adaptive Filter
Fuzzy Adaptive Filter	Multipass Bilateral FIlter

Download

• MSU Cartoon Restore 2.0 beta (1 Mb, ZIP).
  
• MSU Cartoon Restore 2.0 beta without Similarity DB (180 KB, ZIP).
  Unpack this file into the "Plugins" folder of VirtualDub directory.
• Last stable release - MSU Cartoon Restore 1.3 (950 KB, ZIP).
  Unpack this file into the "Plugins" folder of VirtualDub directory.

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