DelogoHD

[MeteorRain]

DelogoHD is an overhaul of the original delogo filter, which was originally written by MakKi many years ago. It also deprecates my previous porting project VapourSynth-DeLogo.

Legacy parameters are removed due to analog TV signal being deprecated years ago.

This filter provides both AviSynth+ and VapourSynth interfaces. It compiles under both MSVC and GCC.

It requires at least a SSE4.1 compatible CPU to run.



Usage

# AviSynth+
DelogoHD(clip, "CCAV 3840x2160.lgd", start = 5, end = 95, fadein = 2, mono = true, cutoff = 5)
AddlogoHD(clip, "CCAV 3840x2160.lgd", start = 5, end = 95, fadein = 2, mono = true, cutoff = 5)

# VapourSynth
delogohd.DelogoHD(clip, "CCAV 3840x2160.lgd", start = 5, end = 95, fadein = 2, mono = True, cutoff = 5)
delogohd.AddlogoHD(clip, "CCAV 3840x2160.lgd", start = 5, end = 95, fadein = 2, mono = True, cutoff = 5)

Parameters

- clip

A clip to process. It must have constant format and it must be YUV 8..16 bit with integer samples.

YUV420P8/10/12/14/16, YUV422P8/10/12/14/16, YUV444P8/10/12/14/16.

- logofile

Logo file in lgd format.

- logoname

Logo name to be selected from logo file.

Default: `NULL`, selecting the first one.

- start, end

First and last frame that has the logo.

Default: From 0 to Max

- fadein, fadeout

Number of fading frames.

Default: 0

- left, top

Number of pixels in adjusting logo position.

For example, `left = -5` results logo being 5 pixels left to its original position.

Default: 0

- mono

Force mono logo, wiping chroma part of the logo.

Default: false

- cutoff

Wiping near-transparent part of the logo, if its depth is lower than cutoff. Should be less than 1000 (Max logo depth).

Default: 0

[Natty]

[tebasuna51]

Originally Posted by MeteorRain

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- logofile

Logo file in lgd format.

Please, some info about lgd format and how create it.

[MeteorRain]

Originally Posted by tebasuna51

Please, some info about lgd format and how create it.

The original tool was built by MakKi back in 2003.

The tool was originally made for AviUtl, being only used within Japan, and is all in Japanese language. It was used to remove the half-transparent TV station logo from captured analog or digital TV programs. But it should also work with other logos as long as they are static and half-transparent. I've tested against Pilot's Eye Bluray Disc and it worked very well. Some porn video that comes with half-transparent logos from their publisher can also benefit, but I never tried.

I have translated the logo header file so you may check that for detailed structure.
Basically a LGD consists of a magic, a name, meta like w h posx posy etc, and the body which is array of actual logo image.
The image was in 12bit Y/Cb/Cr format, which is sometimes called as AviUtl YC colorspace. Alpha channel is recorded for each channel, so it's actually Y/A/Cb/A/Cr/A format. The YCbCr color space is different than what we use as YUV, and during computing, the original Delogo AVS plugin has to convert pixels to AU-YC, remove the logo, then convert them back to YV12. I have re-written the algorithm and it no longer converts data back and forth.

To create a LGD file, the only possible way is to use AviUtl (in Japanese). A Chinese tutorial about how to use the Japanese plugin is available here. Knowing both Chinese and Japanese is recommended to read the tutorial. I've also built a website for my collections of LGD logos these years so far.

[tebasuna51]

Then to create a .lgd of the logo we need install AviUtl, maybe from https://www.videohelp.com/software/AviUtl

Add the logoscan plugin, maybe from http://blog.livedoor.jp/swing26/logoscan_007.zip.zip

And learn chinese and japanese to know how to do.

Too complicated for me, sorry.

[wonkey_monkey]

Originally Posted by tebasuna51

Too complicated for me, sorry.

Yes, the ability to accept the logo from another video clip would make a lot more sense, especially as clean logos can often be found in black sections of video. To speed up processing it could be cropped, and an offset passed as parameters to the filter.

[lansing]

Originally Posted by tebasuna51

Then to create a .lgd of the logo we need install AviUtl, maybe from https://www.videohelp.com/software/AviUtl

Add the logoscan plugin, maybe from http://blog.livedoor.jp/swing26/logoscan_007.zip.zip

And learn chinese and japanese to know how to do.

Too complicated for me, sorry.

Well the logo database is getting really huge now, to a point that we don't need to make on our own. Just grab the one you need and use it. And in case you have a newer one, just post a request and I'm sure others can help make it for you.

[MeteorRain]

Originally Posted by wonkey_monkey

Yes, the ability to accept the logo from another video clip would make a lot more sense, especially as clean logos can often be found in black sections of video. To speed up processing it could be cropped, and an offset passed as parameters to the filter.

It would be impossible. A half-transparent logo has alpha channel information, and must be computed from multiple solid color samples.

The logoscan tool filters logo images by checking the color on the edge. If all pixels on the edge are colors within threshold, it's considered as a solid color. Blue sky and solid color wall are good background for making those samples.

Now suppose you have logos on solid purple / red / black / white / blue, etc, next step is linear regression. It figures out the parameters of the linear function, Y' = Y * (d / MAX_DP) + c, where d and c are parameters to be computed. Once you get d and c for all 3 channels of all pixels, you can add or remove the logo from the image.

Transplanting a logo from a pure black image won't give you the linear function parameters and thus is not possible to remove logos in this way.

[wonkey_monkey]

It can be done if the logo can be considered to be white (or, slightly more complex, any solid colour if you can determine what it is), as the three examples posted all seem to be, and as many logos are:

It's not perfect, but it was a rush job and it's a more solid logo than the three examples.

[2ndR]

Sorry for posting in machine translation

Is there no interlace option but is DelogoHD only for progressive?
Or do you read and process the field order?

[mastrboy]

Originally Posted by MeteorRain

I've also built a website for my collections of LGD logos these years so far.

Thanks for providing those lgd files, you actually had a file for the one I was looking for.

[loonvf]

Hi All,

Anyone has some good experience with DelogoHD?
Very little info on the forum here and I plan to use it to remove some fixed camera / film gate artifacts on my frames.

Any experience / examples would be much appreciated (or alternative suggestions).

Thanks,

Loonvf

[VoodooFX]

Originally Posted by loonvf

Any experience / examples would be much appreciated (or alternative suggestions).

I never tried DelogoHD, only that old plugin it's based on, it was hard to figure it out how to make it work on new logo and then the results were not satisfactory in comparison to Vdub's Delogo results.

As alternative you can try InpaintDelogo.

[Satoshi18]

Where do I download the plugin from?

[Reel.Deel]

Originally Posted by Satoshi18

Where do I download the plugin from?

https://github.com/HomeOfAviSynthPlu...goHD/releases/

[Flash_Bang]

How to use 1440x1080 logo file with 1280x720 video

[kedautinh12]

Originally Posted by Flash_Bang

How to use 1440x1080 logo file with 1280x720 video

Upscale to 1440x1080

[Reel.Deel]

Originally Posted by Flash_Bang

How to use 1440x1080 logo file with 1280x720 video

Can you upload a small sample of the video? From my understanding DelogoHD is supposed to be a more precise way to remove logos as long as the is identical to the one in the video. Hence why there is a library of logos that were created from over the air broadcast (mainly Japan). But here the source of the logo is 4x3 and your video is 16x9, I suspect that if the logos are not perfectly aligned it may not work correctly.

[Flash_Bang]

Originally Posted by kedautinh12

Upscale to 1440x1080

i tried but it did not work

[Flash_Bang]

Originally Posted by Reel.Deel

Can you upload a small sample of the video? From my understanding DelogoHD is supposed to be a more precise way to remove logos as long as the is identical to the one in the video. Hence why there is a library of logos that were created from over the air broadcast (mainly Japan). But here the source of the logo is 4x3 and your video is 16x9, I suspect that if the logos are not perfectly aligned it may not work correctly.

ok here is the video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pdt...ew?usp=sharing