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Old 14th November 2005, 23:01   #41  |  Link
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Good idea, I'm going to email neuron2 and ask him to create a "New halo removers discussion" thread and move all posts from #21 onward to there.
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@ Revgen: Sorry for hijacking

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@ all: here's a new plaything

The following proof-of-concept function uses a method that I had in mind for a longer time already, but never actually tried it ... because during theorising I always thought "nah, this way it can't work. Well, I should have tried it earlier ... this is probably not the worst Halo remover ever seen

Currently, there are the following parameters:

- rx, ry [float, 1.0 ... 2.0 ... ~3.0]
As usual, the radii for halo removal.
Note: this function is rather sensitive to the radius settings. Set it as low as possible! If radius is set too high, it will start missing small spots.

- darkkstr, brightstr [float, 0.0 ... 1.0] [<0.0 and >1.0 possible]
The strength factors for processing dark and bright halos. Default 1.0 both for symmetrical processing. On Comic/Anime, darkstr=0.4~0.8 sometimes might be better ... sometimes. In General, the function seems to preserve dark lines rather good.

- lowsens, highsens [int, 0 ... 50 ... 100]
Sensitivity settings, not that easy to describe them exactly ... in a sense, they define a window between how weak an achieved effect has to be to get fully accepted, and how strong an achieved effect has to be to get fully discarded.
Defaults are 50 and 50 ... try and see for yourself.

- ss [float, 1.0 ... 1.5 ...]
Supersampling factor, to avoid creation of aliasing.


source vs. DeHalo_alpha():




The function: (needs MaskTools and Repair from the RemoveGrain package)

(edit: forgot to include that small "m4" helper function. It's included now.)

(edit2: an "r" had disappeared, causing parameterless call to deliver a black clip. fixed )
Code:
function DeHalo_alpha(clip clp, float "rx", float "ry", float "darkstr", float "brightstr", float "lowsens", float "highsens", float "ss")
{
rx        = default( rx,        2.0 )
ry        = default( ry,        2.0 )
darkstr   = default( darkstr,   1.0 )
brightstr = default( brightstr, 1.0 )
lowsens   = default( lowsens,    50 )
highsens  = default( highsens,   50 )
ss        = default( ss,        1.5 )

LOS = string(lowsens)
HIS = string(highsens/100.0)
DRK = string(darkstr)
BRT = string(brightstr)
ox  = clp.width()
oy  = clp.height()
uv  = 1
uv2 = (uv==3) ? 3 : 2

halos  = clp.bicubicresize(m4(ox/rx),m4(oy/ry)).bicubicresize(ox,oy,1,0)
are    = yv12lutxy(clp.expand(U=uv,V=uv),clp.inpand(U=uv,V=uv),"x y -","x y -","x y -",U=uv,V=uv)
ugly   = yv12lutxy(halos.expand(U=uv,V=uv),halos.inpand(U=uv,V=uv),"x y -","x y -","x y -",U=uv,V=uv)
so     = yv12lutxy( ugly, are, "y x - y 0.001 + / 255 * "+LOS+" - y 256 + 512 / "+HIS+" + *" )
lets   = maskedmerge(halos,clp,so,U=uv,V=uv)
remove = (ss==1.0) ? clp.repair(lets,1,0) 
          \        : clp.lanczosresize(m4(ox*ss),m4(oy*ss))
          \             .logic(lets.expand(U=uv,V=uv).bicubicresize(m4(ox*ss),m4(oy*ss)),"min",U=uv2,V=uv2)
          \             .logic(lets.inpand(U=uv,V=uv).bicubicresize(m4(ox*ss),m4(oy*ss)),"max",U=uv2,V=uv2)
          \             .lanczosresize(ox,oy)
them   = yv12lutxy(clp,remove,"x y < x x y - "+DRK+" * - x x y - "+BRT+" * - ?",U=2,V=2)

return( them )
}

function m4(float x) {return(x<16?16:int(round(x/4.0)*4))}
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Old 15th November 2005, 14:48   #44  |  Link
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At first glance DeHalo_alpha() seems just as good as abcxyz(rad=1.75) but with even a slight better treatment of small details: if you compare the abcxyz(rad1.75) picture Anonymouses posted with the DeHalo_alpha() one in the white beads chain that hold the chandelier, they seem a bit brighter on the DeHalo_alpha() one. Will test this beauty ASAP .
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Old 15th November 2005, 16:57   #45  |  Link
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Someone care to tell me which versiosn of masktools and removegrain i need, cuz i tried liek 3 different ones and all close my script upon loading.
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Old 15th November 2005, 17:11   #46  |  Link
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MaskTools are these (unless I rebuild the script for MT v2.0aX)

RemoveGrain is not needed, but Repair.dll is. Latest official version should suffice for this one, although using the v1.0 pre-release might be a good idea.


Oh, and:
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At first glance DeHalo_alpha() seems just as good as abcxyz(rad=1.75) but with even a slight better treatment of small details: if you compare the abcxyz(rad1.75) picture Anonymouses posted with the DeHalo_alpha() one in the white beads chain that hold the chandelier, they seem a bit brighter on the DeHalo_alpha() one.
Yep, from the basic principle alone, this alpha should retain more detail than the abcxyz thingy.
However, when removing halos, there's always some apparent loss of overall contrast ... after all, the sharpening procedure that caused the haloing was not applied with the intention to bug the viewer, but to please him

So, what about adding some minor areabased tralala afterwards?


(quickly thrown together, so not tweaked at all.)
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thnx, taht worked, but now using plain DeHalo_alpha() in script, i get all black frames.
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thnx, taht worked, but now using plain DeHalo_alpha() in script, i get all black frames.
Nevermind - the halos are gone, aren't they?

Seriously: that's interesting! After finishing the function this morning, I also had the case that just a black clip was returned. Searched for an error in the script, but found none ... loaded the script again, and - ba-ding! - everything was fine.

Sorry, no clue ... try again.


edit: wait, something's fishy when defaults are produced. A moment ...

editedit: grrr, an "r" had disappeared somehow, and I didn't see it. ("brightstr" was "brightst"). Fixed. Sorry for being sloppy.
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Yep, from the basic principle alone, this alpha should retain more detail than the abcxyz thingy.
However, when removing halos, there's always some apparent loss of overall contrast ... after all, the sharpening procedure that caused the haloing was not applied with the intention to bug the viewer, but to please him

So, what about adding some minor areabased tralala afterwards?


(quickly thrown together, so not tweaked at all.)
I don't know if I told you before, but You Are The Man!!.

I can't wait to try this one .
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Didée, thanks for all the work you do and for refining this function more. Even better halo removing then with the original and preserves the small bright areas better.

Here's some more screenshots (especially make note of the eyebrows on the sculpture and the guys fingernails):

Source:



abcxyz(rad=1.75):



DeHalo_alpha():



Wow, I think with this I can finally reauthor this disc without the halos and it preserves a great deal of the detail that BDH was removing.

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And one more example from Trigun again:

Source:



abcxyz(rad=1.75):



DeHalo_alpha():



Again most noticeable is the small bright areas being preserved especially the tight lines on the kanji credits and the small bright areas on the gun and his hair.
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I have some comparisons of my own (from left to right: Source+IVTC, Filtering+HQDering, Filtering+DeHalo_Alpha):

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One more comparison:

abcxyz:


DeHalo_Alpha:


The letters look much better, they are bright and white, not yellowish and dull . Coming up soon: my ultimate test, small detail handling with an X-Men VHS capture.
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I pitted DeHalo_Alpha against FixVHSOverSharp in a VHS capture of the X-Men 1992 animated series's pilot intro. DeHalo_Alpha not only does as good a job (maybe even better) at dehaloing, but there's virtually no difference regarding small details. Here are the comparison shots (in all cases, from left to right: Source, Filtering + FixVHSOverSharp, Filtering + DeHalo_Alpha):







I'm sold, this is by far the best halo remover I ever tried .
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On the simpsons clip it's noticably less sharp. Other comparisons don't show any similar degradation though, maybe it's a fluke, or maybe the filterchain just changed slightly.
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I think that the HQDering and DeHalo_Alpha filterchains on the Simpsons screenshots were the same (except for the dehalo method, of course). I'm going to check that again just in case.
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Good timing, I was just going to make a new post here .

Didée, would it be possible to include some kind of strength control? From what I can gather on the readme, the strongest setting would be something like DeHalo_Alpha(rx,ry,lowsens=1,highsens=100), but that is not enough on a nasty source (3rd generation VHS captured to DV) I have.
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Mind you, there's a reason for that function being titled "alpha". It's perfectly possible that it just can't cope with your source.

If it's just about mere strength, you can set "darkstr" and "brightstr" to values bigger than 1.0, to force even stronger removal. From some certain point on, it will start doing "over-removal" resulting in strange artefacts, but strengths like 1.1 or 1.2 should be okay. Just try, you'll see when things start going overboard.

Does the source have rather "thick" halos? I noticed that dehalo_alpha has its problems both with very thin and very thick halos. I understand the problem behind, but am still waiting for the sudden inspiration to make a general solution.

Moreover, the settings lowsens and highsens work only "sort of" how they were intended ... don't know what I was thinking when creating the LUT for that. Currently, the consequences of altering these two values are not at all intuitive. This definetly needs a change.
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The source has all kinds of halos, it's maybe as f***ed up as the Halo Torture clip I sent you some time ago. I'll try just setting darkstr and brightstr to 1.2 and report back.
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