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Old 16th March 2005, 19:34   #1  |  Link
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Averaging pixels (by downsizing image?) - solved

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If you happen to need average pixel like this, look directly at posts
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There is also a function ShrinkBy2 in SSETools plugin which "sounds" like it could work, but I didn't check and AFAIK no docs are available.
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Hi,
I want to make average of each block of 4x4 pixels (in YV12) on mod4 sized clip. I thought a way is via downsizing. More exactly, when I have block like this (numbers are colors)
0011
0011
4433
4433
I want to get
2222
2222
2222
2222 etc.

Via downsizing it would be
22
22
and then PointResize back to original size.

But I never achieved it. I tried different resizers.. these aliasing or sharpening or whatever effects cause sometimes result like this:
0000
0000
0000
0000
into
11
11
when there was some value in nearby block. Similar for 8x8.

Thanx
R.

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Old 16th March 2005, 20:27   #2  |  Link
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maybe none of the avbisynth resizers is blockbased

a blockbased downsizer or averager shouldn't be hard if you give some more details on what you want
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...on what you want
When I have frame of a clip and I downsize it by two, I would like to have in each pixel of the downsized clip
average of colors of the four relevant pixels of original clip, which were merged by downsizing.
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what does "relevant" mean for you?
what colorspace?
"by 2" means halfing width AND hight each?
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what does "relevant" mean for you?
what colorspace?
"by 2" means halfing width AND hight each?
When downsizing by 2 both width AND height, for each pixel in the new smaller picture, there were exactly four pixels (2x2) in the original. These pixels I meant are relevant to the new one. Bad expression.

YV12
The same priciple as for Y sould work for U,V --- only doublesized
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Just do :

bilinearresize(half_width, half_height).bilinearresize(quarter_width, quarter_height).pointresize(width, height)

It'll work
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Just do :

bilinearresize(half_width, half_height).bilinearresize(quarter_width, quarter_height).pointresize(width, height)
It'll work
No it doesnot.

Look (I'm testing it only in one channel, so don't be scared by the color)


the second one is with higher contrast, to see the difference.
Just try swithing the images fast. You will easily find blocks on the second pic, where the same block on first image is 100% clear. E.g. top left one and the one below...
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Just to fully clarify - do you want this

A B W X
C D Y Z
J K P Q
L M R S

made into

E E V V
E E V V
I I N N
I I N N

Where E is Average(A,B,C,D), V= Average(W,X,Y,Z) etc

or something else

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Again, No, also already tried.
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Just to fully clarify - do you want this

A B W X
C D Y Z
J K P Q
L M R S

made into

E E V V
E E V V
I I N N
I I N N

Where E is Average(A,B,C,D), V= Average(W,X,Y,Z) etc

or something else

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I wonder if bicubic resize is the solution with setting these extra parameters... I don't know what they mean.
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DEdgeMask(0,255,0,255,"0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1",U=3,V=3).PointResize(50%).PointResize(100%)

Not sure which points actually are taken by PointResize, though. Eventually the kernel has to be flipped u/d or l/r.
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DEdgeMask(0,255,0,255,"0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1",U=3,V=3).PointResize(50%).PointResize(100%)

Not sure which points actually are taken by PointResize, though. Eventually the kernel has to be flipped u/d or l/r.
Thanx Didée, it works --- I only had to add borders, for the DEdgeMask gave incorrect results, when part of the matrix is outside the frame.

Well, honestly, I didn't expect the solution is so complicated...
(I mean the idea is nice. Probably more CPU time demanding than I thought...)

Kernel=the matrix in "", isn't it?

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I got up too early this morning and gave a wrong answer. I deleted it quickly, but i can't delete the whole post, hence the message.
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Well, honestly, I didn't expect the solution is so complicated...
(I mean the idea is nice. Probably more CPU time demanding than I thought...)
A specialised plugin could do the job in a fraction of the time. We just don't have such a one.
Basically, BilinearResize would do the very same thing. But if it were coded so as to average every 2*2 pixels (as you need here), then the resizer would shift the frame around during downsizing+upsizing combos. For a resizer, that's of course not acceptable.

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Kernel=the matrix in "", isn't it?
Yes. The string "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" in DEdgeMask normally would be written
Code:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
BTW, in case you want to get the average out of 8*8 blocks, the simplest way is to use Tom's DCTFilter() with

DCFilter(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
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> BilinearResize would do the very same thing.

No, and that's why I deleted my post : when downsizing by a factor two, the bilinear algorithm takes 4 pixels into accounts ( weighting them 0.25 0.75 0.75 0.25 ). When upsizing, however, it takes only two pixels into account ( 0.5 0.5 ), so the following :

Bilinearresize(double_width, double_height).pointresize(half_width, half_height).pointresize(width, height)

Should give a similar result to your script ( there again, we don't know which pixel is used by pointresize, and an offset is needed )

BTW, Didee, you often use DEgdeMask where i'd use YV12Convolution, especially when i'm not building a mask.
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Ah, yes. Thanks for the correction on the bilinear thingie.

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BTW, Didee, you often use DEgdeMask where i'd use YV12Convolution, especially when i'm not building a mask.
Yes indeed. That's a behaviour coming from the fact that there are lots of kernels that cannot be build through the vectorial approach of yv12convolution. Examples:
Code:
1 1 1   2 3 2   -1 -1 -1   1 0 0
1 0 1   3 2 3   -1  9 -1   0 1 0
1 1 1   2 3 2   -1 -1 -1   0 0 1
So, sometimes I spare the time for thinking about "is it seperateable?", and quickly type DEdgeMask instead.

But of course here you're right: In this case, on could as well use

yv12convolution("0 1 1","0 1 1")

Mind I was pretty tired as well when writing that post above
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