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I wonder how difficult/useful it would be to identify other kinds of time-varying characteristics (translation, rotation, scale, hue, saturation, brightness, etc) of partial scene elements in an automated way. That's how Framefree worked. It segments the image into layers, computes a full morph, including movement of the boundary, between successive frames for each layer, and transmits the before and after for each morph. Any number of frames can be interpolated between keyframes, which allows for infinite slow motion without jerk.[1] You can also upgrade existing content to higher frame rates. This was developed back in 2006 by the Kerner Optical spinoff of Lucasfilm.[2] It didn't catch on, partly because decompression and playback requires a reasonably good GPU, and partly because Kerner Optical went bust. The segment-into-layers technology was repurposed for making 3D movies out of 2D movies, and the compression product was dropped. There was a Windows application and a browser plug-in. The marketing was misdirected - somehow, it was targeted to digital signs with limited memory, a tiny niche. It's an idea worth revisiting. Segmentation algorithms have improved since 2006. Everything down to midrange phones now has a GPU capable of warping a texture. And it provides a way to drive a 120FPS display from 24/30 FPS content. [1] http://creativepro.com/framefree-technologies-launches-world...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20081216024454/http://www.framef... |