We're very close to releasing the next version of Video Enhancer. Today we added a scene change detection algorithm into RGB version of super resolution engine. This feature solves an annoying problem of all previous versions of VE: when a scene changes in the video, first frames of the new scene contain some noise resulted from SR fusing current image with previous hi-def frame. Now VE detects a change and starts processing the scene from scratch, as if it was another video. Basically this means that first frame of new scene is upsized by interpolation and later frames are processed with SR.

Here's an example. This is a first frame of a scene:

VE 1.9.3, no scenes detection

VE 1.9.4, scenes detection on

In the left picture you can see the noise near a logo in upper-left corner as well as around people's shoulders and heads. In the right picture you can see this noise is gone.

tags: video_enhancer super_resolution