Video software development

[Da_riPPer]

Hi there, we are developing video editing software to do basic changes and enhancements to videos. Does anyone know where I can find algorithms to change the color balance of a video, and to remove flicker in videos? Or can anyone maby suggest such an algorithm, cause we are really lost.
Thanks

[LloydAZ]

What programming language are you using? For what platform are you writing this for?

It's just an idea, but maybe you can make this a bit easier on yourself and figure out how to utilize the many free plugins that work for either AVISynth or VirtualDub. Then you don't have to write anything yourself, and you make your application that much more expandable, and give people the choice of what they want to use with it.

[Da_riPPer]

We are coding in c++, to run on windows and linux.
We would have used free plugins if we could, but we need to develop the various functions ourselves, otherwise it would have been much easier. Therefore I am looking just for algorithms to do color balance and flicker removal to get and idea of how to go to work.
Thanks

[bobkart]

"Flicker Removal"? Perhaps you mean deinterlacing? Or framerate doubling?

Regarding color balance, once you have the access to the individual frames of a video in an uncompressed format, you can do whatever you like to the color. But I'm not sure what "do color balance" means.

Maybe the algorithms you are after would become more apparent if the requirements/specifications for what it is you want to do were spelled out better. This is a common problem in software development, you can't really know HOW to do something until you are sure WHAT it is you want to do.