InpaintDelogo - advanced logo removal & hardcoded subtitles extraction

[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.

[StainlessS]

Because they're annoying, but welcome to the forum where you will no doubt learn to be similarly annoyed

[VoodooFX]

Why you are welcoming a new roBot?

[StainlessS]

It's more pleasant than interacting with the natives.

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by StainlessS

It's more pleasant than interacting with the natives.

More pleasures there: https://chai.ml

[kedautinh12]

Lol

[Espinosa]

Originally Posted by VoodooFX

Not bad masks, but not so good.

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

I didn't have time for creating masks, later will play with that. I updated all plugins but now there is a strange problem.

- InpaintDelogo after QTGMC doesn't work
- InpaintDelogo after Yadif for example works
- QTGMC not followed by InpaintDelogo works

Any idea what could be wrong?

[VoodooFX]

@StainlessS
Look how your beloved robot replaced his "innocent" post with ad.
[10£ per month for some crap ]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

I updated all plugins but now there is a strange problem.

- InpaintDelogo after QTGMC doesn't work
- InpaintDelogo after Yadif for example works
- QTGMC not followed by InpaintDelogo works

Any idea what could be wrong?

What happens when "doesn't work"? Share whole avs script.

Btw, can you remove that quote with images?

[Espinosa]

Images removed.

I have a longer script but after debugging I figured out that the problem is with QTGMC and InpaintDelogo. I was trying to run the script and encode the video but MeGUI crashes at that point.

LWLibavVideoSource("sample.mkv")

QTGMC(preset = "Slower", Sharpness=0.2)
crop(266, 4, -262, -2)
#InpaintDelogo(mask="D:\mask4.bmp", Loc="1170,44,-0,-950", Mode="Both", Analyze=3, dPP=4, oTune=-5, oTinflate=1, Alphatweak=-3)
return last

[VoodooFX]

Why do you run QTGMC again? Run delogo on your lossless file.

[Espinosa]

What do you mean by "again"? My source is interlaced, I want to deinterlace it and run delogo.

[VoodooFX]

Then I've no idea what you are doing there, what are those masks you posted? At this point I thought that you have deinterlaced your file...
Read this post again: https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1972031

[Espinosa]

Why do I need to encode the file to lossless after QTGMC and Crop and then use InpaintDelogo? Can I simply write one script where InpaintDelogo call follows QTGMC?

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

Can I simply write one script where InpaintDelogo call follows QTGMC?

You can, but you would be deinterlacing twice as whole video is parsed to create masks.

[Espinosa]

Originally Posted by VoodooFX

You can, but you would be deinterlacing twice as whole video is parsed to create masks.

Twice? Where does that happen?

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

Twice? Where does that happen?

In Avisynth.

[Espinosa]

That doesn't make sense that QTGMC followed by InpaintDelogo does deinterlacing twice. I used QTGMC in all my scripts with interlaced sources and this is the first time I read that I need to encode twice.

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

That doesn't make sense that QTGMC followed by InpaintDelogo does deinterlacing twice. I used QTGMC in all my scripts with interlaced sources and this is the first time I read that I need to encode twice.

Deinterlacing twice doesn't mean encoding twice. You don't "need" to do that, but for some reason you are trying to do that, maybe that's why MeGUI is crashing.

"Twice" is hypothetical, with your way you can go to any number of "empty" deinterlaces, depends from what you are doing there.

[Espinosa]

Originally Posted by Espinosa

LWLibavVideoSource("sample.mkv")

QTGMC(preset = "Slower", Sharpness=0.2)
crop(266, 4, -262, -2)
InpaintDelogo(mask="D:\mask4.bmp", Loc="1170,44,-0,-950", Mode="Both", Analyze=3, dPP=4, oTune=-5, oTinflate=1, Alphatweak=-3)
return last

I still fail to see that this simple script can be problematic. If source file is interlaced then QTGMC should give a progressive output video file. After that InpaintDelogo should remove the logo on that file. This works with Yadif instead of QTGMC.

[VoodooFX]

Maybe there is not enough memory, try "Medium" instead of "Slower". Why you don't want to deinterlace to lossless file?
You didn't answered how you got those masks you posted there.