VirtualDub MSU Subtitle Remover Filter User`s Manual

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How to remove subtitles - step-by-step

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Settings

The view of settings window:

The view of settings window

Processing mode selection

Detect subtitles - detect subtitles and write subtitles mask and additional information to files

Remove subtitles - read masks and additional information and remove subtitle

Detect and remove - Run detector and remover at once, without temporary files.

Temp folder - very important parameter! The filter will write to this folder and will read from it!

Subtitles detector parameters

Detection Area

Automatic - Automatiс mode means working with whole frame; Uncheking this radiobutton allows yuo to set area manually; smaller area means much faster work

Left - left border of detection area

Right - left border of detection area

Top - top border of detection area

Bottom - bottom border of detection area

Coardinates are measured in pixels from top left corner

Subtitle Preset Subtitle type. Please, look only on contrast between cont and outline colors ano common video quality. If no variand is applicable, detecion parameters could be set manually.

Subtitle Outline Contrast - Minimal contrast between subtitle and outline. Lower contrast meaты that more pixels will be marked as subtitles.

Subtitle Sensivity - Subtitle detection threshold. Lower (“High quality”) values means more “strict” checking and less pixels will be marked.

Subtitle remover parameters

Blur/Compensation balance - Blur threshold. If you decrease this parameter it could lead to better subtitles removal on scene changes but decrease the quality of removal for another cases

Subtitle outline compensation - If subtitles have “weak” edges (i.e. half-transparent shadow or glow), some pixels from subtitle edges could be losed. Morphological operation “Dilation” is used for removing this artefacts. Lower values means less dilation count and some pixels can be leaved by remover. Higher values means losing of “non-subtitle” pixels.

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10 Mar 2011
See Also
MSU Image- and video-quality metrics analysis
Description of a project in MSU Graphics and Media Laboratory
MSU Video Group / Video data filtering and compession
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Stereo to multiview video conversion algorithm for glasses-free autostereoscopic 3D displays
MSU Video Super-Resolution Filter
This filter increases resolution of video sequence while saving and improving details and reducing artifacts.
MSU Video Group / Video data filtering and compession
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