MSU video filters cumulative announce

[DmitriyV]

We published following filters & programs after last update:

VirtualDub MSU Cartoon Restore Filter - New filter
http://www.compression.ru/video/cartoon_restore/index_en.htm

• One of the most prominent coding artifacts in highly compressed animated video are the ringing artifacts. Ringing noise preferably manifest itself around edges due to coarse quantization. The filter is designed for quality improvement of compressed cartoons like video by deleting ringing artifacts
• Filter is suitable for video restoration (specialized for cartoons, but simple preset suitable for photorealistic video ringing suppression also).
• AviSynth is also supported.
• This is first release, updates with more advanced filtering methods are coming soon.

AviSynth MSU Frame Rate Conversion Filter - New filter
http://www.compression.ru/video/frame_rate_conversion/index_en_msu.html

• The filter is intended for video frame rate up-conversion and contain fast branch of our FRC research (we have also slow versions designed mainly for hardware implementation)
• This is first release, updates are coming soon.

VirtualDub MSU Noise Estimation Filter - New filter
http://www.compression.ru/video/noise_estimation/index_en.html

• This filter is used to estimate mean noise level in video sequences using 4 implemented methods.
• Filter is suitable for video processing automation.
• AviSynth is also supported.

VirtualDub MSU OldCinema Filter 2.0 - update
http://www.compression.ru/video/old_cinema/index_en.html

• We updated one of our old popular filters. This filter is intended to achieve an "Old cinema" effect. You can vary color correction algorithm and add various artifacts, so video looks like "chronicle".
• New effects in 2.0:
  * Improved vertical scratch generation algorithm
  * Added large spots generation algorithm
  * Added new color correction algorithms
  * Improved spots: black and white, and various sizes
  * Added image flicking
• AviSynth is also supported.

MSU Video Quality Measurement Tool - update
http://www.compression.ru/video/quality_measure/video_measurement_tool_en.html

• MSU VQMT is a program for video quality measurements (for codec and filters tuning). One of our popular programs, used in many universities, now supported by more than 20 companies.
• Last updates:
  * Error at the opening YUV-files fixed
  * Set of interface fixes
  * New documentation

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Also we reach one million of total filters downloads:
http://www.compression.ru/video/video_statistics.htm
Congratulations are welcome!



Enjoy!

[guns1inger]

Many thanks for your on-going work and commitment. I look forward to playing with these new and/or improved versions.

[redwudz]

Great, guys, can't thank you enough for your contributions to our hobby.

[Alex_ander]

I tested FRC on critical material and it gave much worse results than the well-known MVTools (MVFlowFPS function). Why is the latter not even mentioned in comparison tests published by MSU?

[DmitriyV]

Many thanks for your on-going work and commitment. I look forward to playing with these new and/or improved versions.

Everything for you!

Great, guys, can't thank you enough for your contributions to our hobby.

Thanks!

I tested FRC on critical material and it gave much worse results than the well-known MVTools (MVFlowFPS function). Why is the latter not even mentioned in comparison tests published by MSU?

We have 2 commercial versions of FRC with higher quality (like this one with fine processing of 3 pixels details and good complex motion processing), but we cannot use them in free filters. Main task of this free filter - high quality without using of proprietary technologies. Now main problem is in high motion areas and in updates of current 0.5 release we plan to fix them.