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Algorithm, ideas: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin, Dmitriy Kulikov
Implementation: Sergey Putilin, Ilya Tsvetkov

Version 2.5.1 released

The filter is designed for noisy video stream processing, video quality improvement, or video preprocessing (e.g. for preprocessing before compression or deinterlacing). The filter implementation is able to use GPU processing power to increase the processing speed.

Change log

Version 2.5.1 (Download it now)

• Processing quality test added to warn users about possible artifacts
• Fixed a lot of filter crashes

• New algorithm for high definition video (HDTV) processing added
• Automatic noise estimation
• Shot detection to reduce artifacts during temporal denoising
• Cg libraries are not used any more

• First version with support for fast video processing using GPU
• New interface

Settings

By default filter uses automatic noise estimation and is ready for video processing without any manual setup. In this mode user can slightly correct denosing strength to achieve necessary results Automatic noise estimation checkbox controls this mode.

Setting the checkbox you can select GPU or CPU versions of algorithm.

Note that not all graphic-cards are supported. We recommend to use ATI Radeon X700 or higher and nVidia Geforce 6600 or higher. The filter requires OpenGL 2.1 support. We strongly recommend installing the latest video-drivers when using GPU-mode to achieve better performance.

Some GPUs does not provide required accuracy and video will be processed with some visual artifacts. So at filter startup certain test are run and the user will be warned in the case of possible quality issues:

Filter provides two different algorithms for video denoising (selection is made via Algorithms list):

• MSU Denoiser — algorithm used in previous versions of filter.

  

  The filter suppresses noise in both spatial and temporal domains. Filter effect is specified for each type of denoising in the dialogue box as shown. Checkboxes help to set required combination of domains, thus enabling spatial-only or temporal-only denoising.

  The new feature of 2.5 release is careful scene change processing. The filter detects shots to prevent artifacts of temporal denoising, but can also reduce the performance, especially when high performance GPU is used.

• Bilateral — new algorithm which is implemented in three variants corresponding to different performance/quality ratios. This algorithm is most suitable for HD video denoising because of its quality.

  

Filter supports Job Control and can be used with AviSynth. Here is an example:

LoadVirtualDubPlugin("..\VirtualDub\plugins\MSUDenoiser251.vdf", "MSUDenoiser", 1)
clip = AviSource("video.avi")
clip.ConvertToRGB32.MSUDenoiser(algorithm, gpuMode, correction, shotDetection)

Parameters:

• algorithm:
  • 0 — MSU Denoiser;
  • 1 — Bilateral, small region (fast);
  • 2 — Bilateral, medium;
  • 3 — Bilateral, big region (best quality);
• gpuMode — if set to 0, CPU is used; GPU otherwise;
• correction — manual correction for automatic mode (50 corresponds to no correction);
• shotDetection — careful scene change processing (for MSU Denoiser algorithm only).

Examples

Let's consider filter operation on “Suzie” sequence first. The sequence is quite noisy in spatial and temporal domains. Here is a visual comparison of source frame and the frame processed by MSU Denoiser:

Performance comparison

Here is a comparison between two versions of MSU Denoiser: old version without GPU processing and new version with GPU processing

Installation

To use the filter download the archive using the link given below and extract its content into VitualDub plugins directory.

Download

• Filter for VirtualDub
  • Version 2.5.1 with GPU processing (117 KB, ZIP)
    GPU usage provides up to 7 times processing speed increase
  • Version 2.0 beta (1.2 MB, ZIP)
  • Version 1.61 without GPU processing (80 KB, ZIP)
• Documentation
  • Comparison of video denoisers, 2007.
  • Description and comparison of noise suppression methods used in other available filters.
  • Description of MSU Denoiser (free) & MSU Noise Removal filters.
    In this report we show how MSU Noise Removal usage can increase compression up to 30% with better visual quality.
• Licenses
  • Program license for non-commercial usage
  • Program license for usage in companies
    If you have discount code (e.g. as successful tester) please use this form

E-mail:

For common questions about MSU Denoiser filter, please contact us
For commercial license of this filter (commercial usage is not free), please contact us

Other resources

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Last updated: 12-December-2008

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