New AI Technique Builds Dynamic Images From a Single Photo

A dynamic image has a "wow" factor that defines spacial relationships and can express much more than a still photo. Creating such a moving photo however can involve taking multiple pictures from different points of view followed by a lot of manual editing work. A new Adobe-developed AI tool significantly lowers the threshold for producing dynamic images with a framework that synthesizes a "3D Ken Burns effect" from a single image. It supports both a fully automatic mode and an interactive mode with the user controlling the camera. Researchers introduce the technique in the paper 3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image.