After looking through some photos from a recent camping trip that I had taken a couple of weeks ago. I decided to take some of my old vacation photos, and turn them into a slideshow with some Python. Don't worry I undertook this endeavor with the understanding that Google Photos, and the Apple equivalent do this really well already. This was really just intended to feed my addiction to building out side projects. When looking through the available options I stumbled across a paper with some code that would take your photos, and add a transition that applies a 3D Ken Burns Effect to your photos.

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.