by Thi-Ngoc-Hanh Le, Chih-Kuo Yeh, Ying-Chi Lin, and Tong-Yee Lee.
Computer Graphics Group at National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan.
This resposity is the official implementation of our paper 'Animating Still Natural Images Using Warping'. This paper has been published on ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM); January 2023
- Published online on ACM TOMM, link
- Project website: link
- Demo video youtube link
From a single still image, a looping video could be generated by imparting subtle motion to objects in the image. The results are a hybrid of photography and video. They contain gentle motion in some objects, while the rest of the image remains still. Existing techniques are successful in animating such images. However, there are still some drawbacks that need to be investigated, such as too-large computation time necessary to retrieve the matched videos or the challenges of controlling the desired motion not only in terms of a single region but also in terms of consistency in regions. In this work, we address these issues by proposing an interactive system with a novel warping method. The key idea of our approach is to utilize user’s annotations to impart motion to certain objects. With two proposed phases in terms of preserve-curve-warping and cycle warping, a looping video is generated.
- Eigen
- Lib and Include files (download the .rar files in this resposity.)
- Qt for UI design.
- OpenCV
If our method is useful for your research, please consider citing:
@article{le2023animating,
title={Animating still natural images using warping},
author={Le, Thi-Ngoc-Hanh and Yeh, Chih-Kuo and Lin, Ying-Chi and Lee, Tong-Yee},
journal={ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications},
volume={19},
number={1},
pages={1--24},
year={2023},
publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}
If you have any question, please email me: ngochanh.le1987@gmail.com or tonylee@mail.ncku.edu.tw (corresponding author)