VirtualDub MSU Logo Remover

• Project, ideas: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin, Dmitriy Kulikov, Sergey Putilin
• Version 1.2 (MSU Subtitle&Logo Remover): Dmitriy Kulikov
• Version 2.xx (MSU Logo Remover): Dmitriy Kulikov, Sergey Putilin
• Version 3.xx (MSU Logo Remover): Erofeev Mikhail

DOWNLOAD 3.0b
DOWNLOAD 2.3b

New version of filter!

The filter is intended to remove logo from films.

This filter works with:

• Static opaque logos
• Semi transparent static logos
• Opaque animated logos

History of versions:

• 3.0b - semi transparent and animated logos are supported now
• 2.3b - fixed bug with crashing on Intel processors
• 2.2b - fixed grammatical errors
• 2.1b - fixed bug with VirtualDub crashing
• 2.0b - first beta version

Version 3.0b

Attention! To remove logos using manually created logo mask use 2.3b version of filter

Main filter ideas:

• Automatic logo detection
• Three ways for logo removal:
  • Blur
  • Motion compensation for correct logo area filling (Effect of objects “crawling” over the subtitles or logo)
  • Subtraction of semi transparent logo using statistical data

Examples

source frame	after filter works
source frame	after filter works

Download

• Open this file VirtualDub. Unpacked in the folder “Plugins”. File size 90 KB (in ZIP)
• Filter User’s Guide in pdf
• Filter work example (Youtube.com)
• Program license for non-commercial usage

Version 2.3b and earlier

Main filter ideas:

• Automatic logo detection
• Two modes of work (one-pass and two-pass)
• Two ways for logo removal:
  • Blur
  • Motion compensation for correct logo area filling (Effect of objects “crawling” over the subtitles or logo)
• Possibility for manual mask editing (for two-pass mode)

Example in AVI (DivX4) video and comparison with LogoAway & X-Logo filters (1.5 MB)

Example in AVI (DivX4) video and comparison with LogoAway & X-Logo filters (Google Video)

Settings

Examples

Let’s consider job of the filter on a test video sequences.

source frame from video sequence Schumacher

after filter works

source frame from video sequence Bus

after filter works

Download

• Open this file VirtualDub. Unpacked in the folder “Plugins”. File size 90 KB (in ZIP)
• Filter User’s Guide in pdf (in zip). File size 589 KB
• Program license for non-commercial usage

Contacts

• For common questions about filter’s work and other issues about it please contact us: lsremover@compression.ru
• For commercial license of this filter (commercial usage is not free) please contact us: video-licensing@graphics.cs.msu.ru