selective denoising

[vatz32]

Apologies for a couple of noob questions:

1. I've been trying to find a way to apply a denoise filter to only the U-channel in YUV, (or R-channel in RGB) leaving the other 2 channels alone. Please can anyone suggest a filter or method for achieving this ? So far I've only come across Luma/Chroma filters - I need to get inside the Chroma ...

2. I was also admiring the hue-selector in Tweak (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Tweak)... I wondered if there is something similar for RGB/YUV levels somewhere ?

Any pointers much appreciated.
:J

[Gavino]

1. UtoY and YToUV (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/YToUV) (see example on that page).

2. RGBAdjust (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/RGBAdjust) and ColorYUV (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/ColorYUV).

[IanB]

Also ShowRed (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/ShowRed), ShowGreen (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/ShowGreen), ShowBlue (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/ShowBlue) and MergeRGB (http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/MergeRGB)

[Archimedes]

dfttest and FFT3DFilter (FFT3dGPU) are candidates for such approach.

[TheRyuu]

fft3dfilter(plane=1) will only filter U.
dfttest(Y=false, U= true, V=false) will only filter U (I think)

[NormanBates]

You could use Cnr2:
"Cnr2 is a chroma temporal smoother (it wont touch luma), mainly aimed at tv/analogue captures. It is quite fast and very good at removing the typical chroma artifacts that can be present in captures."
Download at: http://web.missouri.edu/~kes25c/cnr2_v261.zip

[Blue_MiSfit]

Yeah, for chroma noise it's hard to beat fft3dfilter. It's VERY good.

I usually start with plane=3, and sigma=2, then do UtoY or VtoY, and check for banding. If it's present, I either reduce global sigma, or roll-off strength - like sigma=2, sigma2=1.6, sigma3=1.2, sigma4=.8.. Now with Psy-RDO x264, I can follow with Gradfun2db, and dither away any remaining banding.

~MiSfit