InpaintDelogo - advanced logo removal & hardcoded subtitles extraction

[VoodooFX]

# Version 2.15 : 2022/05/29.  Spaces are allowed in "Loc".

The feature request:

It would be nice if you could specify loc as "60, 500, -60, -40" for example.

[VoodooFX]

# Version 2.16 : 2022/06/12.  Higher quality and faster "DynColor" mask when used with "DynLocUp".
#                             Faster "DynColor" alternative if parameter is string, and it supports multiple colors.
#                             TColorMask plugin is required.

[VoodooFX]

# Version 2.17 : 2022/06/13.  Option for ranged luma mask with DynMask6.

Helps when "logo" is not so bright:



Activated by string: DynTune="140 - 200"

[Espinosa]

I need help to remove the semi-transparent logo in the upper right corner of this video (neglect those black bars, they will be removed anyway). I used InpaintDelogo before to remove letters from logos in "Inpaint" mode and it usually gave good results, but this time I couldn't do anything in "Deblend" mode.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kzzer...ample.mkv/file

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

I need help to remove the semi-transparent logo in the upper right corner of this video (neglect those black bars, they will be removed anyway). I used InpaintDelogo before to remove letters from logos in "Inpaint" mode and it usually gave good results, but this time I couldn't do anything in "Deblend" mode.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kzzer...ample.mkv/file

First, deinterlace and crop video, encode it to lossless:

QTGMC(Preset="Medium", Sharpness=0.2)
Crop(264,6,-258,-2)

Then run InpaintDelogo on that lossless file:

InpaintDelogo( mask="D:\mask.bmp", Loc="1170,44,-0,-950", Mode="Both", Analyze=3, dPP=4, oTune=-5)
Spline36Resize(752,576)

Probably on this video "Analyze=3" is most suitable. Basemask can be easily done with Photoshop.
Actual footage is upscaled so we downscale it back to "sd" res.
"Both" because those black letters are not transparent.

With logo:


Logo gone:


PS:
Something is wrong with FPS, got 100fps and twice shorter clip, maybe it's issue with sample...

[Espinosa]

Of course I tried this but got this error:



My mask has a black background with a white rectangle at Loc position. I'm going to update the core files and plugins and then run the script again.

[VoodooFX]

Update InpaintDelogo.

[Espinosa]

Now this:

[VoodooFX]

"AviSynth+ v3.7.1 or later", check Avisynth version with Version().

[Espinosa]

[VoodooFX]

That's strange, upload your InpaintDelogo.avsi to mega and share output of AVSMeter -avsinfo.

[Espinosa]

https://mega.nz/file/CqhlTIoA#3vwgLF...anHOOfwXUP-mUo

https://mega.nz/file/ymR10JjR#pmJWpn...RpObs1myMULcxA

[Espinosa]

Originally Posted by VoodooFX

That's strange, upload your InpaintDelogo.avsi to mega and share output of AVSMeter -avsinfo.

Can you upload your mask.bmp file? I get this now:



This is the mask I used:

[Espinosa]

It's fine, I forgot that ~10px mask rule. I have other issues with updating Avisynth plugins but that has nothing to do with InpaintDelogo.



Thank you!

[VoodooFX]

So what was culprit of that "unexpected character" error?
"Mask is full" is because you painted whole Loc area white, only logo should be white.

Upload your bmp & ebmp masks to mega, I'll check if everything is OK.

[Espinosa]

I got lost in all these difficulties with updating but I think it's Avisynth.dll. I use MeGUI and AvsPmod, and since MeGUI uses its own core libraries the same script now runs in AvsPmod but throws the same error in MeGUI. Function objects as a new variable type is something that should be defined in the core part so I suppose it's the problem with the core libraries.

I didn't use a ebmp mask at all but judging by some examples here, I guess it should contain only the logo in order to know what to remove by inpainting and what by deblending or something like that. I'm just not sure whether it should be black & white or not. Can you explain this and also how to name it?

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

...but throws the same error in MeGUI.

In MeGUI set to use external Avisynth: MeGUI > Options > uncheck "Always use the included Avisynth" > Save > restart MeGUI

Originally Posted by Espinosa

I didn't use a ebmp mask at all... Can you explain this and also how to name it?

ebmp masks are created and used automatically by InpaintDelogo, they are at same place where is your "bmp" basemask, and it's filename starts same as "bmp" mask's name.

[Espinosa]

Originally Posted by VoodooFX

In MeGUI set to use external Avisynth: MeGUI > Options > uncheck "Always use the included Avisynth" > Save > restart MeGUI

Thank you.

Originally Posted by VoodooFX

ebmp masks are created and used automatically by InpaintDelogo, they are at same place where is your "bmp" basemask, and it's filename starts same as "bmp" mask's name.

I modified Crop parameters a little bit:

crop(266, 4, -262, -2)

These are the files:

https://mega.nz/file/rngEXJbZ#h4h0wN...Oe5gK4Vu0PZqKA

https://mega.nz/file/OjYkQTpI#PwmK4y...OxIPsvKiBcnCCk

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

These are the files:

Not bad masks, but not so good.

Try these custom masks: https://we.tl/t-yMUvpwMNk1

InpaintDelogo( mask="D:\mask4.bmp", Loc="1170,44,-0,-950", Mode="Both", Analyze=3, dPP=4, oTune=-5, oTinflate=1, Alphatweak=-3)

Your masks:


My custom masks:

[Clotibrut]

I don't understand those who remove the logo from images and videos. You don't want the person who created this video or photo to receive well-deserved compliments and praise for his work. I am a photographer, and many of my photos are becoming popular on the networks, so I created a simple logo for myself using create.vista. Finding my photo works in other sources without my logo is extremely unpleasant. It seems to me that this is plagiarism and also very incorrect concerning me.