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Re:3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image by coldtea on Sunday September 15, 2019 @02:16PM (#20978621)
The grantparent is right when it comes to terms:

- Ken Burns effect -> zoom and pan around the image.

The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production from still imagery. The name derives from extensive use of the technique by American documentarian Ken Burns. (Wikipedia)

- 2.5D parallax effect -> what we see in the link

https://blog.pond5.com/16853-create-2-5d-parallax-effect-ima...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSdhtxId2o

Note that these two can (and frequently are) be combined, and Ken Burns himself does so occasionally.

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Re:3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image by sniklaus on Sunday September 15, 2019 @02:40PM (#20978753)
I would like to add that our method estimates the scene in full 3D space. Have a look at the additional results, there are a few results that exemplify this when the geometry is a little more complex: http://sniklaus.com/papers/kenburns-results
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Re:3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image by coldtea on Sunday September 15, 2019 @05:36PM (#20979628)
I'd like add that, naming aside, your algorithm results looks amazing, and you could even have a business (or a successful app) here.

I know a few online services that do manual (cutting in photoshop, setting on a 3D plane, etc) still photo to 2.5D parallax, e.g.:

https://sundstedt.se/blog/services/2-5d-parallax-3d-effect-a...

there are Fiverr gigs doing it, and tons of filmmakers (me included when I dabble with that), do it ourselves too (which takes time in Photoshop, Premiere, etc) from time to time (for news, documentaries, and such).

In fact I am about to pay a good 100-200 to have 4-5 photos done this way for a project...

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Re:3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image by sniklaus on Sunday September 15, 2019 @05:51PM (#20979689)
Since I have done the work while interning at Adobe, I am afraid that I will not be able to commercialize it myself due to patenting. I agree with you that it has great potential, there are still quite a few failure cases though and it is a little hit and miss.
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