# Interlaced frame - Presence of odd field's data in even fields

I am trying to isolate the odd fields and even field from a interlaced frame. The algorithm that I use is simply matrix slicing.

When I display the images, I see that there are remanants of odd field in even field image and vice versa.

What could be the reason? How to avoid this? Am I doing something wrong here?

Here is the Python code I am using. PFA the images. To better visualize the problem, I plotted a line trace of a colum and one can see the jagged trend on the right end of the plot.

import numpy as np
import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

file_path=r'E:\DCIM\101D5200\DSC_2689.MOV'
vid=cv2.VideoCapture(file_path)
cropped_frame=cv2.cvtColor(frame[450:650,500:600,:],cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

even_fields=cropped_frame[::2,:];
odd_fields=cropped_frame[1::2,:];
cv2.imshow('cropped frame',cropped_frame);
cv2.imshow('even rows',even_fields);
cv2.imshow('odd rows',odd_fields);

cv2.waitKey(0)

plt.plot(cropped_frame[3::2,50],'*-');
plt.show()


In the image below, the interlaced frame on the left; even field on the top right; odd field on the bottom left.

Plot of a single colum data from the isolated odd field.

The frame used from the video is also attached for reference.Here is the link

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