Luminosity mask for Vapoursynth?

[lansing]

I just came across this luminosity masking technique (https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-and-use-luminosity-masks-in-adobe-photoshop--cms-23549) recently while working on my scans in Photoshop and found it very useful. Variant masks were created for different levels of highlights and shadows, and with these we can easily apply different filters to parts of the frame base on luminosity.

So I'm requesting a plugin like this to anyone that is interested or just share your thought how to make one.

[butterw2]

You'd need to find the formulas used to generate the luminosity masks in Photoshop.

[VoodooFX]

I think you are talking about adaptive binarization, would be nice to see such algos ported to Synths, here is one paper on it Comparison of Niblack inspired Binarization Methods for Ancient Documents (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221253803_Comparison_of_Niblack_inspired_Binarization_Methods_for_Ancient_Documents).

Wolf's algo is pretty good, paper claims that Fang and NICK is even better.

Here is paper about improving such algos with preprocess Improvement of Image Binarization Methods Using Image Preprocessing with Local Entropy Filtering (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333635736_Improvement_of_Image_Binarization_Methods_Using_Image_Preprocessing_with_Local_Entropy_Filtering_for_Alphanumerical_Character_Recognition_Purposes)

[lansing]

I think you are talking about adaptive binarization, would be nice to see such algos ported to Synths, here is one paper on it Comparison of Niblack inspired Binarization Methods for Ancient Documents (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221253803_Comparison_of_Niblack_inspired_Binarization_Methods_for_Ancient_Documents).

Wolf's algo is pretty good, paper claims that Fang and NICK is even better.

Here is paper about improving such algos with preprocess Improvement of Image Binarization Methods Using Image Preprocessing with Local Entropy Filtering (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333635736_Improvement_of_Image_Binarization_Methods_Using_Image_Preprocessing_with_Local_Entropy_Filtering_for_Alphanumerical_Character_Recognition_Purposes)

No, that algorithm was made specifically to filter text from old text books.

[quietvoid]

You might have some luck with the mask from https://git.kageru.moe/kageru/adaptivegrain

Info about the algorithm: https://blog.kageru.moe/legacy/adaptivegrain.html
A pure python version is also available in the article.

[poisondeathray]

Those photoshop ones work in RGB, but there is an avisynth masks pack that had a lumamask function that could specify Y ranges to isolate black and white points (for the mask) with falloff (so you don't get abrupt binarized transitions) . It would have to be converted to vapoursynth-ese , but it might be a good starting point. I think the legendary didee was the original author, but dogway made some mods