[Breakthrough]

This is definitely a good idea, and something that I'm most open to considering for a future release of PySceneDetect. Admittedly the current version does not handle single-frame "upsets" like this, but this does seem like a logical and reasonable approach to a first attempt at filtering them out.

[doubleunplussed]

I would do an exponential smoothing of pixel values over some timescale, say, 0.2 seconds, before further detection of scene changes. That should do the trick.