Disney patents video cleanup tool that removes grain and ghosting
Disney describes a method for cleaning up noisy video footage using a computer model that focuses on specific parts of the image to remove blur and flicker. The system also trains a smaller, faster version of the model to process videos more quickly without losing quality.
In the filing’s own words
Techniques are disclosed for denoising videos. In some embodiments, video frames are denoised using a denoising model that includes an encoder-decoder architecture and attention modules. During training of the denoising model, the attention modules learn weightings to upweight certain dimensions of input features to help pixel registration, remove ghosting artifacts, and improve temporal consistency when the frames of a video are being denoised. The denoising model can also be used to train a student denoising model that has a same architecture as, but is smaller and faster than, the denoising model. After training, noisy video frames can be input into the denoising model and/or the student denoising model to generate corresponding denoised video frames.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method for generating a denoising model, the method comprising: determining (i) one or more sets of noisy frames and (ii) one or more sets of reference frames corresponding to the one or more sets of noisy frames; inputting the one or more sets of noisy frames into (i) a first denoising model and (ii) a second denoising model that is smaller than the first denoising model; computing a feature loss based on (i) a first set of features generated by the first denoising model from the one or more sets of noisy frames and (ii) a second set of features generated by the second denoising model from the one or more sets of noisy frames; and training the second denoising model using the feature loss.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.)
- Official title
- TECHNIQUES FOR DENOISING VIDEOS
- Publication number
- US20260320758A1
- Application number
- 19715800
- Filed
- Jun 22, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/70 Physics & computingG06N 20/00 Physics & computingG06T 5/73 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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