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Filters and comparisons downloads statistics
by MSU Video Group
One million filters and 200 thousand comparisons!
(CS MSU Graphics & Media Lab)

Group Leader: Dr. Dmitriy Vatolin

We had two anniversaries not long ago. There were 1 million downloads of both our filters and our programs. As a result, many students, ordinary users and researchers from various countries - e.g., USA, Germany, Italy, France, England, Poland and Australia (the list is far from complete) - send us their comments and suggestions.

It had taken us 4 years to gain the first million downloads, but we are able to gain another million in about 1.3 years. If the new generation of students will be quicker, then I think it can take even less (because new filters allow rapid increase of downloads).

So, we'll see what our young generation is capable of.

Another important borderline, which we overcame last July, is 200'000 of downloaded video codec comparisons. During these 4 years 11 codec comparisons were published. These comparisons cover practically all promising contemporary codecs. Moreover, number of downloads were assessed on the basis of traffic and not on the basis of access, thus this figure really shows the amount of downloaded comparisons (the sum is more than half a terabyte).

The frequency distribution of different comparisons' downloads is the following:

The obvious leader is the annual comparison of H.264 codecs. The dynamics of public interest to this comparison are very curious: each time a new comparison is released, the amount of downloads for old comparisons increases as well (which is quite natural, if to think of it); however, downloads of new comparisons grow even more rapidly, which means that there is a great public interest in them.

The dynamics are the following:

• The first-year comparison was downloaded 23.5 thousand times in 2.5 years
• The second-year comparison was downloaded 30.5 thousand times in 1.5 years
• The third one was downloaded 31.2 thousand times in 0.5 years

However, download frequence functions in each period are pretty uniform (which is a drawback of our advertising). For example, 24% of downloads of the second comparison were during the first third of its period, 36% - during the second, 30% - during the third part.

We have similar situation with comparisons of codecs without losses: during first 28 months there were 8 thousand downloads, however 7 thousand downloads of the new comparison were made in 4 months.

Of course we understand what we can do better (for example, sometimes quality level of student filters is not so perfect), but, to the best of our knowledge, we are the only university multimedia lab which publishes video filters not as a MATLAB code. Enjoy! :)

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Public MSU video filters Here are available VirtualDub and AviSynth filters. Commonly we develop a whole family of some kind of a filter. Generally there are also versions optimized for PC and hardware implementations (ASIC/FPGA/DSP). These optimized versions can be licensed to companies. Please contact us for details via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru. MSU Cartoon Restore (New!) MSU Noise Estimation MSU Frame Rate Conversion MSU Image Restoration MSU Denoising (Top!) (New!) MSU Old Cinema MSU Deblocking (Top!) MSU Smart Brightness and Contrast (Top!) MSU Smart Sharpen (Top!) MSU Noise generation MSU Noise estimation MSU Motion Estimation Information MSU Subtitles removal MSU Logo removal (Top!) MSU Deflicker (Top!) MSU Field Shift Fixer AviSynth plug-in MSU StegoVideo MSU Cartoonizer (Top!) MSU SmartDeblocking (Top!) MSU Color Enhancement MSU Old Color Restoration MSU filters FAQ (Read me!) MSU filters statistics	MSU filters for companies We are working with Intel, Samsung, RealNetworks and other companies on adapting our filters other video processing algorithms for specific video streams, applications and hardware like TV-sets, graphics cards, etc. Some of such projects are non-exclusive. Also we have internal researches. Please let us know via video(at)graphics.cs.msu_ru if you are interested in acquiring a license for such filters or making a custom R&D project on video processing, compression, computer vision. Automatic Objects Segmentation Semiautomatic Objects Segmentation New Frame Rate Conversion New Deinterlacer MSU-Samsung Deinterlacing Project Digital TV Signal Enhancement Old Film Recovery Tuner TV Restore Panorama Video2Photo SuperResolution SuperPrecision MSU-Samsung image and video resampling MSU-Samsung Frame Rate Conversion Motion Phase filter Deshaker (video stabilization) Film Grain/Degrain filter Deblurring filter Video Content Search
Codecs comparisons Objective and subjective quality evaluation tests for video and image codecs Options Analysis of Codec x264 (New!) 4-th MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison (Top!) Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2007 3-rd MPEG4-AVC/H.264 Comparison HD Photo and JPEG 2000 Comparison MPEG-2 Decoders Crash Test (Top!) Subjective Compar. of 4 Modern Codecs (Top!) 2-nd MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Comparison (Top!) FAQ of 2-nd H.264 Comparison 1-st MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codecs Comparison FAQ of 1-st H.264 Comparison JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison (Top!) Lossless Video Codecs Comparison 2004 MPEG-4 SP/ASP Codecs Comparison (Top!) Video codecs comparison (old) Ext. link: x264 parameters efficiency comparison	Video quality metrics Programs with different objective and subjective video quality metrics implementation MSU Video Quality Metric - objective metrics for codecs and filters comparison (Top!) Implemented metrics short info: PSNR, Delta, MSAD, MSE, SSIM, VQM, MSU Blurring, MSU Blocking MSU Brightness Flicking Metric MSU Brightness Independent PSNR MSU Drop Frame Metric MSU Noise Estimation Metric MSU VQM Metric Tool FAQ MSU Human Perceptual Quality Metric - several metrics for exact visual tests (Top!) Implemented metrics short info: ITU-R BT.500-11: DSIS, DSCQS I & II, SCACJ; EBU: SAMVIQ; MSUCQE MSU PVQ Metric Tool FAQ
Video codecs projects Different research and development projects on video codecs MSU Lossless Video Codec (Top!) MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec (Top!) MSU MPEG-2 Video Codec x264 Codec Improvement	Other Other information Crazy gallery (filters screams :) License for commercial usage of MSU VideoGroup Public Software (please be careful: some soft like metrics has another license!)

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Last updated: 07-December-2007

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