Animating pictures of water scenes using video retrieval
The Visual Computer (2016)
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Makoto Okabe 1 Yoshinori Dobashi 2 Ken Anjyo 3
1Shizuoka University, 2Hokkaido University, 3OLM Digital Inc.
Abstract
We present a system to quickly and easily create
an animation of water scenes in a single image. Our
method relies on a database of videos of water scenes and
video retrieval technique. Given an input image, alpha masks
specifying regions of interest, and sketches specifying flow
directions, our system first retrieves appropriate video candidates
from the database and create the candidate animations
for each region of interest as the composite of the input
image and the retrieved videos: this process spends less than
one minute by taking advantage of parallel distributed processing.
Our system then allows the user to interactively
control the speed of the desired animation and select the
appropriate animation. After selecting the animation for all
the regions, the resulting animation is completed. Finally,
the user optionally applies a texture synthesis algorithm to
recover the appearance of the input image. We demonstrate
that our system allows the user to create a variety of animations
of water scenes.